YIMBY News for 11/5

[Eric Budd]

Littleton Ballot Question 3A: Voters favor new restrictions on homebuilding

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 40.78. affordable, affordable housing, construction, density, development, growth, homeowner, housing, impact fee, income, project, rent, renter, single-family, supply, zoning

Littleton voters were on track Tuesday night to approve a ballot measure enshrining single-family zoning in the city’s charter, effectively blocking local officials from allowing denser forms of housing across most of the southern Denver suburb. The measure, which appeared headed toward passage, would represent a setback for housing advocates and local leaders, who said the charter amendment would upend the city’s plans to tackle the affordability crisis, undoing years of community planning efforts to increase the supply of housing. Ballot Question 3A was favored by 55% of voters as of 8:52 p.

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In Last Stand, Harrell Intensifies Negative Attacks on Wilson

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 32.17. house, housing, income, parking, parking lot, rent, urban

Charging into the Election Day finish line, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has increasingly staked his reelection bid on negative attacks on challenger Katie Wilson. But the desperate attacks appear to be hurting Harrell’s favorability ratings, which are increasingly underwater, more than they’re hurting his opponent, who remains popular. You’ve likely heard the caricatures drummed up by the campaign professionals working for Harrell and his surrogates: Wilson is an ill-prepared college dropout who took financial help from her parents to cover child care expenses. Her résumé is paper thin — albei

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A tight contest for Vail voters weighing a new tax on short-term rentals to pay for affordable housing

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 29.42. affordable, affordable housing, condo, homeowner, housing, income, project, rent

The Vail Town Council in 2024 set a goal to require more money from the town’s 2,600 short-term rentals to support attainable housing, joining dozens of Colorado communities leaning on STRs for revenue. Vail voters were pondering that plan Tuesday, with early results for Ballot Issue 2A showing a slightly larger number of voters rejecting a 6% excise tax on rental income from short-term rentals to help pay for workforce housing. That tax would raise the town’s lodging tax for short-term rental properties — not hotels — to 16.8%, up from 10.8%. Town staff estimated the new tax would generate ab

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History Is Repeating Itself in the Congo as the World Scrambles for Minerals To ‘Go Green’

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.83. development, growth, housing, segregate, segregation, supply, urban

Miners work at the D4 Gakombe coltan quarry in Rubaya, Democratic Republic of Congo, on Friday, May 9, 2025. (Photo by Moses Sawasawa / AP) *This article was originally published in The Conversation.* Lubumbashi is a city in the mineral-rich Katanga region in the south of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Many people might not have heard of it, but Lubumbashi and its surrounding region have been at the centre of global geopolitics since the start of the 20th century. The area provided immense sources of copper, a metal that helped electrify the planet in the 1900s. It was also the source

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Ballot measure to boost child care funding in Garfield, Pitkin, Eagle counties headed to victory

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.72. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, housing, income, project, rent

Early election results for a spate of local ballot measures aimed at ramping up funding for child care initiatives across Colorado were mixed, with at least one measure appearing on its way to victory and another looking likely to fail Tuesday night. A proposal to create a 0.25% sales tax in Garfield and Pitkin counties and a portion of Eagle County was winning decisively in all three counties, though all returns weren’t in. The measure aims to establish the Confluence Early Childhood Development Special Service District, Colorado’s first Early Childhood Development Special District spanning a

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How would Zohran Mamdani’s dream economy actually work?

Vox - Politics

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.59. housing, income, rent

[image: Zohran Mamdani marching with supporters on the Brooklyn Bridge, holding up a banner that reads, “Our Time Is Now.”] Zohran Mamdani and his supporters carry a banner across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, on November 3, 2025. | Adam Gray/Bloomberg via Getty Images Socialists just seized the commanding heights of New York City. On Tuesday night, Zohran Mamdani — a longtime member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — won the mayoralty of America’s largest municipality. Mamdani’s election constitutes a triumph for America’s long-suffering socialist movement — possibly, the most

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