YIMBY News for 3/6

[Eric Budd]

Former Seattle Council Candidate Ron Davis Challenges Longtime Legislator Gerry Pollet

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 43.98. affordable, bus route, construction, development, homeowner, house, housing, housing cost, income, parking, project, rent, supply, transportation, urban, zoning

Ron Davis, the former candidate for Seattle City Council who lost to Maritza Rivera in 2023 by just 235 votes, is setting his sights on Olympia. Davis wants to take out Representative Gerry Pollet, who has represented Seattle’s 46th legislative district in the House since 2011. He’s the latest candidate to announce a challenge against a longtime incumbent during this year’s high-turnout midterm election. Pollet has earned a reputation of siding with the existing homeowners in his district over the new residents trying to move there, and became infamous for watering down housing reforms during

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Wilson Rolls Out Bills Expediting Emergency Housing for Homeless Residents

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.84. downtown, house, housing, income, rent, urban, walk

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson rolled out new legislation on Wednesday intended to expedite production of emergency housing and expand access to indoor shelter at the Hope Factory in SoDo, a large production facility for assembling portable tiny homes. Wilson’s office framed the “Neighbor by Neighbor Initiative” as a “citywide, all-hands-on-deck effort to rapidly expand shelter across Seattle and start bringing people inside.” Wilson has set a goal of standing up 4,000 additional units of emergency housing or shelter in her first term, with 1,000 of those in her first year. The first piece of legi

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How State and Local Leaders Are Responding to ICE: Your Questions Answered

BOLTSmag

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KEYWORD SCORE: 29.14. apartment, house, housing, project, public space, rent, segregation, zone, zoning

The violence of Trump’s immigration crackdown in cities across the country and the killing of protesters by federal agents have put pressure on local leaders to change their approach to federal immigration enforcement. Already, a growing list of states has moved to restrict local collaboration with ICE, and in many local criminal justice elections this year, assisting federal immigration authorities has become a defining issue. We asked our readers to send us their questions about state and local responses to the federal immigration crackdown as part of our ongoing series “Ask Bolts.” With the

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The 30th floor was empty. Then the artists took over

Denverite

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.91. apartment, development, downtown, gentrified, growth, house, housing, project, real estate, rent, walk

“This is our town,” Julie Davis declared to hundreds of revelers on the 30th floor of a vacant downtown Denver office building. Most nights, the streets around the high-rise at 633 17th St. have been empty, save for a murder of crows painting the concrete with guano. But on the last Friday in February, around 500 fashionable guests – artists, musicians, curators, city officials and more – walked like misfits through the empty corporate lobby, and took the ear-popping elevator ride to the 30th floor. Two stories of gutted office space had been converted into a series of galleries dimly lit with

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Op-Ed: Why Seattle Neighborhood Greenways Is Rebranding as Seattle Streets Alliance

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 23.17. bike lane, downtown, mobility, project, transportation, urban, walk

For 15 years, Seattle Neighborhood Greenways has been at the heart of Seattle’s safe streets movement — neighbors organizing neighbors to make it safer and easier to walk, bike, roll, and gather on our streets. Our original name captured an early chapter of that story. It no longer reflects the scale or scope of who we are. We are excited to become Seattle Streets Alliance to more accurately reflect the nature of our grassroots organization’s mission. Seattle is a city full of bright possibilities — and in recent years, voters have made clear they want a transportation system that reflects tha

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Colorado tapping the breaks on apartment construction

Colorado Public Radio

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.77. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, growth, housing, income, market-rate, rent

Colorado’s apartment building boom is fading fast. The slowdown extends to some affordable housing, according to a report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. The report examines builders’ use of the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program, a federal program created in 1986 that uses tax breaks to boost affordable housing construction. Colorado developers pulled ahead of the national average in the past decade in terms of building affordable units through the program, according to Kansas City Fed economists. The growth ran parallel to the state’s population growth. But apartment constru

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The elder care solution that everyone with aging parents should know about

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.11. affordable, development, growth, house, housing, income, rent, supply, transportation, walk

[image: a thirty-something woman walking on a pink background, guiding an older woman in front of her and a young kid just behind her] Key takeaways - Adult day care centers provide crucial, affordable relief for caregivers, especially members of the “sandwich generation” who are taking care of parents and children at the same time. But the estimated 3,100 programs serving an estimated 200,000 people nationally are under constant threat from inadequate funding. - The coming wave of aging baby boomers will dramatically intensify demand for elder care, and put pressure on the federal budget, whi

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How state investment is helping the North Fork Valley transition from coal to culture

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.09. construction, development, downtown, housing, rent

*PAONIA — *Sally Kane moved to the North Fork Valley when she was 8. It was 1972, her mother was a potter and part of a counterculture “back to the land” movement that had spread across Colorado. They lived on a farm, kept goats and a large garden. “It was a really inspiring way to grow up,” Kane said. “But the other side of it was that there was, is, and maybe always will be, a culture clash between old-timers and newcomers.” The North Fork Valley has long been home to three major industries: agriculture, coal mining and the arts. Over the years, they’ve coexisted, but volleyed influence and

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