YIMBY News for 7/2

[Eric Budd]

America’s housing was built for a world we no longer live in

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 80.17. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, bus rapid transit, construction, density, development, gentrification, growth, homeowner, house, housing, housing cost, housing crisis, housing stock, mixed-use, parking, parking lot, project, real estate, rent, single-family, supply, transportation, urban, walk, yes in my backyard, yimby, zone, zoning

[image: an illustration of an apartment building peeling away to reveal a mixed-use building with apartments up top and a busy cafe below] America’s housing supply was built for a world we no longer live in. But what will replace it? As the nation turns 250, that is one of the most important questions we face in the coming decades. Building enough homes, of the right kind, and in the right places is a prerequisite for economic opportunity and growth. Our crippling housing shortage is upstream of many of the problems that ail the US, from our cost of living and increasingly zero-sum politics to

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Keeping Gentrification at Bay Through Cooperative Ownership of Mobile Home Parks

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 36.61. affordable, affordable housing, condo, development, downtown, gentrification, house, housing, project, real estate, rent, urban

PODER Emma staff and Sugar Hollow staff pose outside to celebrate clean and resilient energy powering the cooperatively owned civic hub. (Photo by Sugar Hollow photographer, courtesy of PODER Emma) Sponsored content from Invest Appalachia. 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.* It was a late September evening when Hurricane Helene reached the beaches of Florida in 2024. With winds up to 1

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What We Know About the State of American Housing

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.56. affordable, construction, growth, house, housing, income, rent, renter, supply, urban, zoning

Like other “wicked” problems, housing is hard to solve because it’s complicated. We hear there’s a lack of supply, but one of the findings in the latest State of the Nation’s Housing report is that there are more homes to buy than buyers. The report from Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies (JCHS) offers a detailed look at the current mix of demographic, supply, policy, construction and economic factors behind a persisting affordability crisis. Demand Is Depressed Reduced demand hasn’t received much attention, says Daniel McCue, senior researcher at JCHS. Unsold new home inventory is 54

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A Historic Black School Is At the Heart of This Small Town’s Development Plans

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 30.08. development, downtown, house, housing, mixed-use, preservation, project, rent, urban, walk

Charles W. Eliot Hall at the Palmer Memorial Institute, photographed ca. 1946–47. (Photo from the Griffith J. Davis Collection at Duke University Libraries / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) *This story was originally published in journalist and historian Marianne Dhenin’s newsletter.* Charlotte Hawkins Brown, a giant in the movement for Black education, opened the Palmer Memorial Institute in the small North Carolina town of Sedalia at the height of the Jim Crow era. Now, more than a century later, the historic campus is being preserved and reimagined as a thriving community education and culture hub, while

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An Unappreciated Economic Development Engine: School Districts

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.97. construction, development, growth, housing, mobility, real estate, rent, transportation

On May 2, Dallas voters approved a $6.2 billion school bond, the largest in Texas history, by a 3-to-1 margin. The measure will build 26 new schools and modernize every campus in the district. That’s a school story, but it’s also an economic development story. Nothing illustrates that better than what happened after Dallas voters approved another bond issue six years ago. The 2020 bond has generated more than 64,000 jobs across more than 200 campus upgrades, according to the school district. Marcus Elementary, rebuilt under that program, saw academic scores jump 21 points in its first year in

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Several new state laws take effect on July 1

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.30. affordable, affordable housing, development, homeowner, housing, income, rent, transportation

Starting July 1, several new Colorado laws take effect from legislation passed during the 2025 and 2026 legislative sessions. These include two high-profile gun laws and protections for the LGBTQ community that push back against a recent Supreme Court decision. Gun laws One law that passed in 2025 adds some friction to the process of buying ammunition. It creates a new minimum age of 21 to buy ammunition at retail stores and through mail order. The law also requires stores to keep ammunition behind a counter or on a locked shelf, so it can’t be accessed without help from a salesperson. Backers

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There’s one big reason socialist voters may not get what they want

Vox - Politics

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.63. affordable, affordable housing, house, housing, income, project, rent

[image: Melat Kiros speaking before a crowd.] Democratic congressional candidate Melat Kiros speaks to supporters at an election-night watch party after winning the Colorado primary on June 30, 2026 in Denver, Colorado. | Getty Images The left is painting Blue America rose. In just the past two weeks, four insurgent left-wing candidates — including three socialists — have won Democratic congressional primaries. The latest victor, 29-year-old Melat Kiros, defeated 15-term incumbent Diana DeGette Tuesday night. These wins capped a banner year for progressives in general and the Democratic Social

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