YIMBY News for 3/19

[Eric Budd]

The Overlooked Housing Solution in Washington’s Investor Debate

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KEYWORD SCORE: 37.09. affordable, affordable housing, development, homeowner, house, housing, occupancy, real estate, rent, single family, single-family, supply, urban

[image: Backyard] For sale signs displayed outside a neighborhood of single family homes, Thursday, July 17, 2025, in Derry, N.H. (Photo by Charles Krupa / AP) Concerns about institutional investor activity in the housing market have moved quickly to the center of federal housing policy. President Trump recently issued an executive order directing federal agencies to examine ways to limit large institutional investors from acquiring single-family homes and to prioritize homeownership opportunities for families. Congress is now considering related measures through the Senate’s bipartisan 21st C

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How Ann Arbor, Michigan, Is Creating Its Own Clean Energy Utility

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.28. affordable, affordable housing, downtown, house, housing, income, rent, renter, supply, urban

Downtown Ann Arbor, Michigan. (Photo by Bill VanderMolen / CC BY-NC 2.0) *This story was originally published by Grist. * When Krystal Steward started knocking on her neighbors’ doors in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 2021, to discuss energy efficiency and sustainability upgrades, she was met with a lot of blank stares. She was new to the issues herself, she said. But the longtime social worker kept at her new job doing outreach for Community Action Network, a local nonprofit dedicated to serving under-resourced communities. She slowly started getting people in her neighborhood to take part first in

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Why Some Congresspeople Want to Go Big on Greenways

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.05. bike lane, bike path, construction, house, mobility, multimodal, project, rent, transportation, urban, walk

A bold new bill would significantly expand federal funding for walking and biking infrastructure by treating them as essential tools to accomplish America’s transportation goals — even as some in Congress and the White House incorrectly dismiss them as distractions. U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-New Jersey) recently introduced the Parks to People Act, which would fund a $300 million discretionary grant program aimed at building greenways of national and regional significance — and not only in America’s parklands, as the bill’s name might imply. Co-led by U.S. Rep Lucy McBath (D-Georgia), the in

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ICE Ramping Up Activity in Washington State, UW Report Shows

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.55. downtown, house, public hearing, rent, urban, walk, zoning

[image: ICE Ramping Up Activity in Washington State, UW Report Shows] As federal immigration enforcement in Washington State surges and news of continued *acts of mistreatment* filter out of the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, local elected officials have been acting to temporarily ban the expansion or establishment of immigration detention centers in their jurisdictions. *A new report* from the University of Washington Center for Human Rights (UWCHR) released on Wednesday analyzes data that shows a “powerful surge” in immigration enforcement in the Pacific Northwest from October to

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You Can’t Build a Smart City on Broken Sidewalks

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.31. construction, mobility, multimodal, project, public space, rent, transportation, urban, walk

A delivery robotic device that has the capacity to hold some 6-8 kilos of cargo stands ready to move during its press launch in London in 2016. (Photo by Alastair Grant / AP) Every Waymo ride, every Uber Eats delivery, every “seamless multimodal journey” begins and ends on a sidewalk. Yet while cities race to fine-tune algorithms, sensors, and smart infrastructure, the most fundamental network we all rely upon remains dangerously underfunded and unevenly maintained. Sidewalks are the connective tissue of urban transportation, serving as the beginning and end of nearly every trip. But responsib

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