YIMBY News for 1/12

[Eric Budd]

How America made it impossible to build

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 29.50. construction, housing, preservation, project, rent, segregation

Traffic is diverted around a detour at Shaw Avenue and Golden State in Fresno, California, as construction on the California High-Speed Rail overpass begins on December 29, 2025. | Craig Kohlruss/The Fresno Bee/Tribune News Service via Getty Images There’s a familiar mood in American life right now, a frustration that feels both personal and ambient. The bridge doesn’t get fixed. The train line doesn’t get finished. The housing never gets built. The permits drag on. The timelines slip. The price tags balloon. And even when everyone agrees in principle that we really, really need to get things

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The Case for Federal Revenue Sharing

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 26.53. development, growth, house, housing, hud, income, project, rent, urban, walk

People walk outside the U.S. Capitol building in Washington on June 9, 2022. (Photo by Patrick Semansky / AP) Economic uncertainty, federal funding cutbacks and the end of State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund (SLFRF) funding are creating a perfect fiscal storm for local governments. Economically challenged cities – those with high poverty rates and a history of population decline – will feel the brunt of the impact. To prevent fiscal distress in the nation’s most economically challenged places, Congress should create a targeted program of revenue sharing for local governments and provide help

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When a landlord ghosted its Denver tenants, trash and dog poop piled up. Then came the mysterious fees.

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.16. apartment, construction, growth, house, project, real estate, rent, renter, supply

From Oct. 27 to Dec. 1, Zella Makela tried to reach her landlord so many times, she made a spreadsheet to track all her failures. She sent 16 emails to the property management company, Redstone Residential, and used a website contact form another 14 times. She called 27 times. Her final tally: After 57 attempts in a month, she says she received no written responses, and only got someone on the phone twice. In the meantime, her toilet continued to leak. Whenever she tried to cook, it tripped the circuit breaker if she used too many appliances at once. Trash and dog poop piled up in the small do

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Boulder County graduates 36 families from Family Self-Sufficiency program

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.05. apartment, development, homeowner, house, housing, housing and urban development, housing authority, income, rent, urban

Boulder County graduated 36 families from the Family Self-Sufficiency program in 2025, with graduates collectively earning $478,279 in escrow savings. The program, funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, provides one-on-one coaching and support over five years to help families receiving housing assistance build financial stability and achieve long-term goals. As participants earn more and make progress on their goals, the program sets aside money for them in an escrow account, which works like a savings account. Participants receive this money when they complete the pro

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The fiction at the heart of America’s political divide

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.72. house, housing, income, rent, urban, zoning

[image: An illustration of two silhouetted men pointing at one another. They’re both covered in a red and blue checkerboard pattern.] America’s most impassioned Democrats and Republicans don’t agree on much. Ask the inhabitants of Bluesky and Truth Social whether a fetus is a person, or undocumented immigrants are a scourge, or trans women are women, or climate change is a crisis, or Covid vaccines are toxic, or taxes are too high, or welfare spending is too low, or AR-15s should be banned, or the federal bureaucracy should be gutted, or the police discriminate against Black people, or univers

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