YIMBY News for 12/26

[Eric Budd]

City of Seattle Purchases 18-Acre Laurelhurst Property, Scuttling Sprawl Plans

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 48.06. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, bus rapid transit, development, homeowner, house, housing, parking, preservation, rent, single family, single-family, urban, walk, zone, zoning

Seattle urbanists scored a quiet victory last week with a unanimous council vote authorizing the purchase of a contentious 18-acre parcel in Laurelhurst, the former research institute-turned-conference center known as Talaris. The City advanced the property acquisition with the intention of ensuring future fish passage along the mostly undergrounded Yesler Creek. The move will grind to a halt plans for 48 single family homes sprawling across the site. Critics had lambasted the proposal as creating a lavish suburban enclave within a stone’s throw of the University of Washington, a campus with m

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America’s other populist, socialist big-city mayor

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 33.92. apartment, house, housing, housing cost, housing crisis, income, rent, renter, supply, urban, zoning

[image: The Seattle skyline, featuring the Space Needle, at dusk.] Seattle, Washington, on June 21, 2025. | Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via Getty Images The election was divisive, pitting an established moderate against an upstart progressive in the large, Democratic city. For a while it seemed like it would be close, but in the end the progressive won definitively, powered by a relentless focus on affordability and adept use of short-form video. Mamdani? New York? You must be confused — I’m talking about Seattle mayor-elect Katie Wilson. The 43-year-old political neophyte, whose term begins next mo

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