YIMBY News for 6/11

[Eric Budd]

A Community Land Trust Is Purchasing Commercial Property in NYC for the First Time

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 51.83. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, cooperative housing, cooperative housing, development, gentrification, growth, house, housing, housing cooperative, housing crisis, income, market-rate, mixed-use, project, purchase land, rent, urban, zoning

Members of East New York Community Land Trust gather outside of the building they’re set to purchase in the next few weeks, which will be transformed into the East Brooklyn Liberation Center. (Photo courtesy ENYCLT) New York City’s growing community land trust movement will hit a new milestone next month, as the East New York Community Land Trust is set to become the first in city history to purchase a commercial property off the private market. The CLT will turn a vacant, two-story brick building into the “East Brooklyn Liberation Center,” a headquarters for the nonprofit with affordable offi

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Op-Ed: How Redlining Housing Discrimination Continues to Impact Seattle Today

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 45.72. affordable, affordable housing, fair housing, gentrification, growth, homeowner, house, housing, housing crisis, housing discrimination, housing price, project, real estate, rent, segregation, urban, walk, zoning

Redlining Reimagined: Racist maps that banks used to deny mortgages to communities of color have a long legacy.[image: Op-Ed: How Redlining Housing Discrimination Continues to Impact Seattle Today] Seattle is one of the fastest-growing cities in the nation, fueled in large part by its booming tech sector. While this growth has caused housing prices to surge with increased demand across the city, not all communities are being impacted equally. To understand why some neighborhoods are disproportionately vulnerable to modern pressures like gentrification and displacement, we must look into the pa

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The Bronx Is Codifying Community Power in Economic Development

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KEYWORD SCORE: 41.67. affordable, comprehensive plan, development, growth, housing, housing cooperative, hud, project, real estate, rent, urban

[image: The Bottom Line] Sandra Lobo, executive director at Our Bronx, welcomes attendees at the opening of the inaugural Bronx Economic Development Summit at the Andrew Freedman home. (Photo by Muneeba Hassan) The Bronx gave the world salsa. It gave the world hip-hop. Now the Bronx is staking its claim as the birthplace of a new economic development paradigm. It’s a paradigm rooted in decades of organizing around projects like the Kingsbridge Armory and the former Lincoln Recovery Center, both of which will soon be transformed under hard-fought community ownership. It builds on what Bronx res

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L.A. Is Building for the 2028 Olympics. These Organizers Want To Stop It.

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KEYWORD SCORE: 33.95. apartment, construction, development, housing, housing crisis, income, rent, urban, walk, zone

The Olympic cauldron is lit at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum ahead of the launch of ticket registration for the 2028 Summer Olympic Games, Jan. 13, 2026, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Damian Dovarganes /AP) Cerianne Robertson spent years watching a city change as it prepared to host the Olympics. While living in Rio de Janeiro and working as a journalist, Robertson says she and her team saw the displacement happen. From 2014 to 2018, she reported on evictions that helped make way for the Olympic park and related transit infrastructure. About 77,000 people were displaced from their homes — most

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How This Cultural District in St. Paul Is Fighting Displacement

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.64. construction, development, gentrification, housing, income, project, public space, rent, transportation, urban

One of the many food vendors at the Little Mekong Night Market in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo by jpellgen / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Sponsored content from National CAPACD. Sponsored content policy *This piece is part of our Stories of Belonging series, which **highlights people who have stepped up to protect their communities from displacement — of residents, small businesses, and the culture that makes a place home**.* For most of the 20th century, St. Paul’s Rondo neighborhood was home to a thriving Black community. Tucked into St. Paul’s Summit-University district, Rondo’s religious institutions,

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The Subway That Could Fix L.A.'s Most Infamous Traffic Bottleneck

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.17. construction, development, income, project, transportation

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Q2 2026 Magazine. You can subscribe here. Bob Anderson’s relationship with the 405 freeway goes back more than 50 years. In the early ’70s he and three co-workers piled into his red Chevrolet Corvair for a 25-minute commute from West Los Angeles to their aerospace jobs in the San Fernando Valley. The Corvair, a 1964 model from his college days, was never meant to have air conditioning, but that didn’t matter. The windows opened and the car was moving. A Southern California breeze flowed through. There’s scant joy in such a commute in 2026. It

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