YIMBY News for 2/9

[Eric Budd]

How two state programs aim to address the need for affordable housing for Colorado teachers

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 44.41. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, cost of housing, development, homeowner, house, housing, housing cost, housing price, housing stock, income, project, real estate, rent, single-family, walk

Buena Vista long ago became a second home to Abby Thompson, a mountain refuge her family would return to summer after summer, where the Arkansas River Valley beckoned them to its hills and rapids. When a position teaching music at Avery-Parsons Elementary School opened up a year and a half ago, Thompson seized the rare opportunity to make her second home a more permanent one. The transition from tourist to resident has been effortless, minus one thing: Overwhelming housing costs have Thompson and her husband constantly wondering whether they’ll be able to root themselves to their newfound comm

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The World Cup Is Coming. Our Cities Must Protect Their People.

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.36. affordable, affordable housing, development, gentrification, house, housing, rent, renter, urban

Seattle's Lumen Field, one of the stadiums that will host 2026 FIFA World Cup matches, on Jan. 26, 2026. (Photo by Lindsey Wasson / AP) Soccer is called the world’s game because it is truly global and belongs to everyone. The kids playing barefoot in the park, the fans in the cheap seats, the communities that turn every match into a block party. This year, the FIFA Men’s World Cup will bring that game to our own cities: Atlanta, Boston, Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Miami, New York-New Jersey, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Seattle. This is a moment that should unite us with prid

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Indian Cities Look to ‘Pink Parks’ as an Imperfect Urban Safety Solution

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.48. house, income, public space, rent, segregate, urban, walk

(Photo by ARTO SURAJ / Unsplash) Thirty five-year-old housewife Sona stretches her legs across a concrete bench inside the Purdah Bagh, the centuries-old park in the heart of India’s capital city where she’s been coming since she was 10 years old. “When I am tired, I can just come here and lay my mat and eat chips, remove my dupatta (shawl) and lie down,” says Sona, a native of the adjacent Daryaganj, who asked to only use her first name. “When we do the housework, we are always tired and have no space for rest and recreation inside the home. There needs to be a space where women can just leav

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The Boulder Chamber View: Boulder’s secret weapon in uncertain times — collaboration

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.58. downtown, housing, rent, supply, transportation

We are in the season of economic forecasts, so let’s name the obvious: There is uncertainty out there. Maybe less uncertainty than last year, but there are very few businesses that are living in a world of complete certainty. Global markets are shifting. Interest rates are moving. Demographics are changing. Political environments are presenting obstacles. And technology keeps rewriting the rules. No chart has the future perfectly mapped. There are also mounting pressures in the Boulder region over long-term issues like housing, workforce, community health and safety, transportation and infrast

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