YIMBY News for 6/16

[Eric Budd]

The case that Florida is ready to turn blue again

Vox - Politics

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.58. affordable, affordable housing, growth, homeowner, house, housing, rent, renter, transportation

[image: David Jolly speaks during a convention] David Jolly is the Democrat Party’s likely gubernatorial nominee in Florida. He officially became a Democrat last year. | Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images For decades, Florida was the archetypal presidential swing state — and as recently as 2016 and 2018, Democrats came close to winning statewide elections there. Then things took a turn. After Ron DeSantis was elected governor in 2018, the Sunshine State moved solidly right of the country in 2020, and 2022 and 2024 brought double-digit drubbings for Democratic candidates — convincing man

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By the Numbers: The U.S. Affordability Crisis

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.91. homeowner, house, housing, housing price, income, rent, renter, urban

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Q2 2026 Magazine. You can subscribe here. As midterm elections approach, affordability is top of mind for voters and candidates. The war in Iran has added to worries about the cost of living, but groceries and other essentials strained budgets long before gasoline prices went up. The median income of American households, taking inflation into account, has gone up over the past two decades. But it hasn’t risen as sharply as the price of housing — the single largest expense for most families and the core of financial stability. On average, about

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