YIMBY News for 3/5

[Eric Budd]

Localities Welcome Congressional Action on Housing

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 38.91. affordable, construction, development, growth, house, housing, housing and urban development, income, infill, land-use, market-rate, project, rent, single-family, urban, zoning

In Brief: The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which combines elements of two bills with bipartisan support in the U.S. House and Senate, could be voted on this week. Cities and states support many of the provisions, which expand eligible uses for federal housing money and streamline some permitting requirements. The bill also includes a provision, backed by President Donald Trump, capping Wall Street purchases of single-family homes. For the first time in years, bipartisan majorities in the U.S. House and Senate have voted to approve a package of changes to federal housing programs, with the

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Urban Truth Collective: Straight Talk About The Joy Of Cities In An Age Of Disinformation

Streetsblog Net

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KEYWORD SCORE: 37.08. apartment, density, house, housing, housing price, land-use, parking, transportation, urban, walk, zone

*Fifteen-minute cities are open air prisons. There’s a war on cars. Homelessness has nothing to do with housing. Wider, faster roads and highways are an improvement.* When it comes to cities, we’re inundated with lies like these: - It makes no sense that we should be *afraid* of places where people can get most of what we need, closer by. Maybe our kids can even walk to the store! No walls, no guards – just convenient options that don’t need a car every time. It’s just a normal, “common sense” place to live — as most cities used to be, before we mandated car dependency. - It makes no sense to

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Dear Trump: the Future Belongs to the Efficient

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KEYWORD SCORE: 33.39. affordable, development, house, income, mobility, multimodal, parking, rent, supply, transportation, urban, walk

Editor’s note: The following article originally appeared on *Planetizen* and is republished with permission. The U.S. federal government just revoked its scientific finding that climate change threatens public health and welfare. It feels like the first scene of a disaster movie in which clueless public officials ignore experts’ warnings of impending catastrophes. Cue ominous music! You needn’t be a scientist to be concerned about human actions that disrupt atmospheric chemistry; we already see measurable and expensive increases in heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, hurricanes, flooding, sea leve

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Longmont Housing Authority celebrates opening of Ascent at Hover Crossing

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 32.83. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, house, housing, housing authority, income, project, rent, walk

City officials, housing leaders and development partners gathered Tuesday afternoon to celebrate the grand opening of Ascent at Hover Crossing, a new affordable housing community designed to provide family housing and childcare in Longmont. The $39 million development at 2225 18th Ave. includes 75 mixed-income apartments and a two-story early childhood education center that will serve both residents and families from the surrounding community. The project was developed through a partnership between the Longmont Housing Authority and Pennrose, a national affordable housing developer with a regi

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The Real “Problem” With E-Bikes – and New Jersey’s New E-Bike Law

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 28.78. bike lane, complete street, house, income, mobility, multimodal, rent, transportation, urban, walk

A bicycle food delivery worker rides his e-bike through heavy snow, Feb. 1, 2021, in the Soho neighborhood of New York. (Photo by Robert Bumsted / AP) Last month, in reaction to several high-profile fatal crashes, outgoing New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy passed the country’s strictest law on e-bike use. The law, which reclassifies e-bikes as vehicles, amounts to an effective ban on e-bikes. Starting in July, all e-bike riders in the state will be required to have a licence and registration, and most will also need an insurance policy. Riders aged 14 and under will be banned from using e-bikes alto

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Help Desk Are Emerging As a Way To Connect People to Homeless Services

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 28.45. affordable, downtown, house, housing, real estate, rent, urban, walk

[image: Backyard] A homeless man sifts through his belongings during a sweep of an encampment in downtown Denver on Oct. 31, 2023. (Photo by Thomas Peipert / AP) A woman in need of mortgage assistance. A double lung transplant survivor who couldn’t afford his medical treatment. A mother with three kids who has just been evicted from her home. These are just a few of the people who have come to Elevated Denver’s new help desk over the last month seeking help accessing social services. For nearly a year, the Denver-based nonprofit has been piloting a help desk called The Community Resource Conne

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Can Cities Run Out the Clock on the Builder’s Remedy? A court in Santa Clara says no way.

YIMBY Law

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.61. development, housing, housing crisis, project, rent, yimby, zoning

A Santa Clara Superior Court judge ruled that Los Gatos improperly tried to block two developers from building new housing in the Silicon Valley city of 30,000. Thanks in part to an amicus brief by YIMBY Law, the court ruled in *Town of Los Gatos v. Arya Property, LLC, et al. *that the law in California allows developers to make multiple attempts to fix incomplete applications. At YIMBY Law, we were happy about the ruling for several reasons. Not only did the judge get the law right, but they adopted the reasoning set forth in our brief. Now, not only will those projects move forward, adding h

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The giant loophole that lets Big Dairy keep baby cows in solitary confinement

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.80. apartment, development, house, housing, parking, rent, supply, transportation, urban

[image: an illustration of a calf within a too-small, hastily-drawn box. Just behind the calf are nine rows of tiny calf silhouettes, tightly packed together] The dairy industry uses cows to make two things: milk and baby cows. The milk, we know its fate. But what of those 9 million babies born to dairy cows each year? Many get carted off — sometimes over great distances, typically at not more than a few days old — to live out their calfhoods at a place like Grimmius Cattle Company. Spanning hundreds of acres across its two main locations in Tulare County and Kings County, California, in the h

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A developer is tearing down a big Denver office — and it could be the start of a trend

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.77. affordable, affordable housing, downtown, housing, parking, parking lot, rent

It could be anywhere in the Denver Tech Center — a six-floor office building surrounded by parking lots and roundabouts. Yet the 30-year-old structure on Technology Way could soon become a dramatic example of the changes sweeping the city’s real-estate market. Earlier this year, a developer filed paperwork to potentially demolish the 140,000-square-foot building, replacing it instead with about 660 new rental units. This kind of teardown is likely to become more common as office buildings sit empty and lose value around the Denver metro. Not far away, the former headquarters of Arrow Electroni

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Three Theories About Why U.S. Car Crash Deaths Are Plummeting

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.52. complete street, development, house, mobility, parking, parking lot, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk

America may have recorded its largest one-year drop in traffic deaths in decades, according to a top safety organization — but what drove the trend, and how can the country protect even more of its residents? The National Safety Council recently estimated that U.S. traffic deaths plummeted by nearly 5,000 between 2024 and 2025 — a 12-percent drop, and the largest single-year decline since at least 1999. That estimate still means that 37,810 people lost their lives in car crashes last year — a horrifying number, but the lowest one published by NSC since 2019. Their data did not distinguish betw

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Take a Walk Around the Block With Me

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.09. bus stop, development, gentrification, house, infill, project, rent, urban, walk

*The following is an excerpt from “The Cities We Need: Essential Stories of Everyday Places,” a book of prose and photographs by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani and published by the MIT Press. All text and photos are by Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani.* When I asked Mike in Prospect Heights how he had prepared to take me on the tour of his neighborhood that I had requested, his answer was simple. “I said to myself, we’ll take a walk around the block and I’ll tell you what I know, you know?” Much of the work of being human happens in everyday places: We become ourselves, we become able to see each other, to

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The biggest drawback of driverless cars

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.45. development, house, mobility, parking, project, rent, transportation, urban

[image: Rear view of a Waymo-branded self-driving Jaguar SUV with roof sensors stopped at a red light in city traffic, with buildings lining the street and a “Taylor” street sign ahead.] A Waymo sitting in traffic in San Francisco. | Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Driverless cars have the potential to substantially reduce the death toll from likely the most dangerous everyday activity in American life: driving. So it might surprise you to know that the very people who are working to make transportation safer, more pleasant, and more humane are actually pretty divided on them. That is because if

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WSDOT Advances Plan to Tame I-90 Ramps at Judkins Park Station

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.22. comprehensive plan, construction, growth, multimodal, project, rent, transportation, urban

On the eve of the grand opening of Seattle’s next light rail station at Judkins Park, the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is advancing a plan to tackle the network of highway ramps that swirl around the station’s front door at I-90 and Rainier Avenue. The department’s preferred fix would remove the northbound ramp from I-90 onto Rainier Avenue and improve safety at the other freeway ramps, although some safe streets advocates would like them to go further. Since 2023, WSDOT has been looking at ways that the ramps around Judkins Park Station can be modified to improve safe

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Future of Lafayette’s Coca-Cola mural hangs in the balance

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.89. development, downtown, preservation, project, public space, rent, urban

Drivers in Lafayette may notice the large, fading mural off Public Road — a decades-old Coca-Cola advertisement that has become a fixture of the city’s downtown. But it hasn’t always been at that location. And it might not be there forever. In 2024, the Lafayette Urban Renewal Authority, in partnership with the city, retained a a conservation firm to assess the condition of the historic mural, according to a city staff memo. The evaluation found the sign has experienced extensive paint loss and cracking amid sun and wind exposure. It concluded that continued outdoor exposure will accelerate it

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