YIMBY News for 1/6

[Eric Budd]

The Trump Admin’s Anti-Immigrant Housing Policy Reflects a History of Xenophobia in Public Housing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 47.03. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, house, housing, housing and urban development, housing cost, housing crisis, housing price, hud, income, rent, renter, segregation, supply, urban, zoning

Vice President JD Vance, center, speaks next to officials including, from left to right, HUD Regional Administrator William Spencer, United States Attorney for the Central District of California Bill Essayli, FBI Los Angeles Assistant Director Akil Davis, US Border Patrol Sector Chief Gregory Bovino and ICE Field Office Director Ernie Santacruz at the Wilshire Federal Building Friday, June 20, 2025, in Los Angeles. (File photo by Jae C. Hong / AP) *This article was originally produced by The Conversation, an independent source of news and views, from the academic and research community.* The U

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These Refugees Are Developing a First-of-Its-Kind Community Land Trust in San Diego

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KEYWORD SCORE: 33.80. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, development, fair housing, gentrifying, housing, housing crisis, income, project, rent, urban

(Photo courtesy PANA) When Ramla Sahid was five years old, she and her family fled Somalia to escape the civil war that had engulfed the nation. Nearly 35 years later, living in San Diego as a refugee, she’s working to create what might be the country’s first community land trust for immigrant and refugee families. In 2015, Sahid founded the Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA), a nonprofit staffed by refugees and working toward building economic, social and civic power for refugees and displaced communities around San Diego. Using $8.58 million in grants from philanthropist

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Parts of downtown Denver are old, tired and empty, but is it poised for rebirth?

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 25.27. apartment, development, downtown, growth, housing, mixed-use, project, real estate, rent

*This is a part of an occasional series looking at aspects of Colorado’s faltering economy.* ------------------------------ At first glance, Columbine Place, an office tower in Denver, doesn’t look so bad. The lobby isn’t grand, but it’s been updated — it’s clean and welcoming. Still, it’s a building that no one wants. The buyer defaulted, and the lender determined the building wasn’t worth taking. The maintenance on the 44-year-old tower is more than the property is worth. Ground-floor retail tenants have all left, leaving paper on the windows. It is a microcosm of the challenges facing large

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Permits for new apartments doubled this year in the Pikes Peak region

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 24.94. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, downtown, house, housing, project, single-family

Permits for new apartment buildings more than doubled in 2025 compared to 2024, according to a report from the Pikes Peak Regional Building Department. The agency issues permits and performs inspections of new construction, including changes to existing buildings. This includes buildings across El Paso County and jurisdictions within, as well as Woodland Park in Teller County. Construction on 4,100 apartment units was completed and opened to the public, with 4,500 more under construction, according to the report. Overall, the commercial sector saw a 31 percent increase in the number of project

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Ferguson’s 2026 Budget Queues Steep Cuts, Pushes Millionaires Tax to 2029

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.50. construction, housing, income, rent, urban

At the end of December, Governor Bob Ferguson announced his proposed 2026 supplemental state budget, which he balanced through a mixture of cuts, drawing down the state’s rainy day fund, and fund transfers, while largely avoiding raising new revenue. Ferguson did signal support for instituting an income tax on millionaires, but his proposed tax would not go into effect until 2029. The governor said the delay was necessary to set up infrastructure to collect the tax and weather expected legal challenges to ensure the tax is collectible. However, some fellow Democrats have questioned whether suc

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