YIMBY News for 12/10

[Eric Budd]

Older adults on fixed incomes are finding homeownership in Colorado financially harder than ever

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 35.11. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, homeowner, house, housing, housing stock, hud, income, preservation, project, rent, single-family

[image: A woman wearing a green and white striped top stands underneath a wooden arch. There is a light green house behind her with solar panels on the roof.] When Peggy Locke bought her 804-square-foot home in Denver’s Westwood neighborhood about 10 years ago, the monthly mortgage–including the loan payment, property taxes and homeowner’s insurance–was around $500. That amount “was perfectly doable,” said Locke, a 77-year-old retired registered nurse living on Social Security benefits, plus a small pension from a former employer. However, as property taxes and the cost of homeowner’s insuranc

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More data centers are coming to Colorado, demanding more power than they’ll need. Will customers foot the bill?

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.38. average house, construction, development, downtown, growth, house, project, rent, segregate, walk

[image: rows of cabinets holding computer drives in a data center] The data centers are coming. The question is how many will there be and who will pay for the power and transmission they need? In Colorado and across the country utilities are beginning to take steps — mainly through special tariffs for large-load customers — to try to answer both questions and in doing so protect consumers. The Colorado Public Utilities Commission is requiring Xcel Energy, the state’s largest electricity provider, to use a set of “principles” when negotiating with data center developers, including upfront fees

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Inside a Closing Minnesota Prison, a Radical Shift in How Inmates Live

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.61. housing, mixed-use, occupancy, project, rent

The B-East cell hall at Stillwater prison was once a place of echoing lockdowns and razor-edged tension. “Some things that’ll never leave,” said Lt. Sam Marks, recalling the stabbings, self-harm and overdoses that reverberated through the four tiers of steel and concrete. But since the Department of Corrections began the process of closing the prison this fall, an experiment has taken root in the newly opened space. Inside, incarcerated people tend herb gardens, line up for “shape-ups” in a resident-run barbershop, debate books in a discussion group, and help run a prison tattoo shop. The tran

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A Police Killing Drew National Protests. At Home, a Commission Struggles with How to Make a Difference. 

BOLTSmag

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.05. development, house, housing, project, rent, walk

Part I: “I’m going to still try” On July 6, 2024, the morning after Sonya Massey was murdered by a Sangamon County sheriff’s deputy, a local citizen journalist named Calvin Christian III received a mass email from the county about a deputy-involved shooting. He wrote back, asking for more information. “They usually respond, like, ‘We can’t comment further,’ anything like that, but they were just dead silent,” he told me. “So I knew something was up.” The sheriff wasn’t speaking to reporters, and the department wouldn’t release the video of the encounter, citing a pending investigation. Word go

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