YIMBY News for 7/10

[Eric Budd]

Zahilay and Wilson Partially Dismantle KCRHA Amid Rising Homelessness

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 38.50. affordable, affordable housing, development, downtown, growth, house, housing, housing and urban development, hud, rent, urban

King County's homeless population grew to 18,365 in a 2026 count, up 9% from 2024.[image: Zahilay and Wilson Partially Dismantle KCRHA Amid Rising Homelessness] Last week, Seattle and King County announced that they are re-absorbing their contracts for homelessness services from the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA). The KCRHA has been administering over 400 city and county contracts worth around $160 million, but these contracts will be returned to Seattle’s Human Services Department (HSD) and King County’s Department of Community and Human Services (DCHS) by the beginning o

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What that wobbling New York office tower reveals about America’s housing crisis

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.67. apartment, construction, development, house, housing, housing crisis, project, rent, urban, walk

[image: An offive tower under construction in Manhattan with the Chrysler building in the background] Making housing out of high rises was supposed to be common sense fix for the nation’s housing crisis. It’s harder than it looks. | Selcuk Acar/Anadolu “Gotta go,” a young woman murmured into her phone, slipping into a gaggle of gawking New Yorkers pointing and staring at a teetering office tower in the heart of midtown Manhattan on Tuesday. “This building’s like *collapsing* in New York.” If you squinted past the police barricades, you could see the sagging upper floors of the old Pfizer build

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Court of Appeals Hands Seattle Another Burke-Gilman Missing Link Setback

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.34. affordable, affordable housing, bike lane, bikeway, construction, growth, housing, project, rent, transportation, urban

[image: Court of Appeals Hands Seattle Another Burke-Gilman Missing Link Setback] The never-ending quest to bridge the Burke-Gilman Trail across Shilshole Avenue through Ballard hit another road block Monday, with the Washington Court of Appeals ruling against the City of Seattle on the question of whether construction can proceed. The decision closes off a "fast" track that the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) had been pursuing... for the last five years. The ruling marks just the latest legal setback for the beleaguered project to close a 1.4-mile gap in a trail corridor stretchin

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City Government Is the Latest Proving Ground for Socialist Politics

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.39. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, development, housing, housing cost, rent, renter, supply

This article is part of Governing’s Inside Politics newsletter. Sign up to subscribe. The first midterm election of the Donald Trump presidency in 2018 ushered a small wave of socialist-minded candidates into public office, launching the political careers of U.S. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) of New York and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan alongside other members of the so-called Squad. The second midterm election of his presidency is proving to be a similarly ripe environment for socialists. This time, they’re taking top jobs in big cities too. Last year, Zohran Mamdani and Katie Wilson ran

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Native American tribes came together to secure their rights to Colorado River water. 4 states are stalling the deal

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.97. construction, growth, house, housing, project, rent, urban, walk

This first appeared at kjzz.com . By Alex Hager/KJZZ and Mark Olalde/ProPublica, photography by Sharon Chischilly for ProPublica A deal to bring Colorado River water to Native American communities in northern Arizona, where a third of homes lack running water, is being blocked by neighboring states, caught up in a broader battle over how to divide the dwindling river. The largest tribal water rights settlement in U.S. history — the product of decades of negotiations to secure water for the Navajo Nation, Hopi Tribe and San Juan Southern Paiute Tribe — was on the verge of being realized before

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