YIMBY News for 9/5

[Eric Budd]

Where Boulder City Council candidates stand on key issues

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 42.95. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, density, development, downtown, growth, housing, housing stock, income, project, rent, rent control, renter, supply, transportation, urban

Ten Boulder City Council candidates have given potential voters a public look at where they stand on key issues. Council incumbents Matt Benjamin, Lauren Folkerts, Nicole Speer and Mark Wallach, and challengers Rachel Rose Isaacson, Rob Kaplan, Maxwell Lord, Jenny Robins, Rob Smoke and Aaron Stone chimed in on key issues facing the city at a candidate forum at New Vista High School last week. Lord, who runs a housing development company, was finishing a project in Hawaii and joined via Zoom. Montserrat Palacios was not present. In the forum, candidates were asked a question and then a name was

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The Lost Art of Crafting Great Urban Places

Strong Towns

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KEYWORD SCORE: 41.38. construction, development, downtown, house, housing, infill, preservation, project, public space, rent, supply, transportation, urban, walk, zoning

*Professor Jack Duncan is a professor of architecture and preservation at the College of Charleston.* His mission is to help students and communities understand and rediscover the human-scaled patterns that make places beautiful, legible, and lasting. Today, Jack joins Tiffany to discuss how this mission relates to architecture, urbanism, and craftsmanship. - Click here for the transcript. (Lightly edited for readability.) Tiffany Owens Reed 0:00 Hi everybody. Welcome to another episode of The Bottom-Up Revolution podcast. I'm your host, Tiffany Owens Reed. We don't talk much about architectur

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Trump Administration Abandons Civil Rights Enforcement in Chicago Housing Discrimination Cases

YIMBY Law

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KEYWORD SCORE: 37.72. affordable, affordable housing, development, fair housing, house, housing, housing and urban development, housing discrimination, hud, project, rent, segregation, urban, yimby

On August 6, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) abruptly withdrew from two major civil rights enforcement actions in Chicago. The cases concerned housing discrimination, and another addressed environmental racism from the siting of a metal shredding facility on the South Side. Both cases were nearing resolution after years of work from local and federal officials, and in both cases HUD had *already* determined that Chicago had engaged in unlawful discrimination. The administration justified this withdrawal, saying it would focus on “real concerns,” signaling that HUD’s

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These Lawyers Are Keeping Asian American Tenants Housed

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 31.78. house, housing, income, occupancy, rent, renter, urban

Shelby Nacino is the housing rights program director at Asian Law Caucus. (Photo courtesy ALC) *This Q&A is part of Lessons from the Field, Next City’s series of interviews with anti-displacement practitioners across the country.* For years, low-income, single room occupancy residents of the International Hotel in San Francisco’s Manilatown had been battling developers. The Asian Law Caucus, a locally-based legal aid organization founded in 1972 with a mission to keep Asian tenants housed, began working to defend the residents in 1975. Two years later, the developer evicted 60 elderly Chinese

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Where do Longmont City Council candidates stand on growth, housing, wages?

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 28.33. apartment, development, downtown, growth, house, housing, income, parking, rent, urban, walk

Front Range Community College had a packed house on Wednesday night as Longmont residents showed up to the first forum of the election season with all nine City Council candidates in attendance. The four mayoral candidates were not part of the forum, with a forum of their own set for October. Hosted by Longmont Area Democrats and moderated by retired journalist Nicolette Toussaint, candidates were quizzed on topics ranging from growth and housing to wages and climate change. Ward 2 incumbent Matthew Popkin is seeking his first full term and faces challengers Teresa Simpkins and Meg Thornbury.

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The Sound Transit Board Signals a Return to Parochialism

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 28.14. bus rapid transit, construction, density, downtown, growth, preservation, project, rent, transportation, urban

Sound Transit faces tough decisions, and the uneasy and long-fraying regional alliance that holds the enterprise together could be in danger of imploding as the agency navigates another major financial crisis. The Sound Transit 3 (ST3) measure was approved by voters in 2016 to expand the system to 116 miles of light rail, but it’s in serious jeopardy. Board members seem to be retreating from tough decisions and entrenching deeper into their local political camps. Last week, Sound Transit revealed a 20- to 30-billion-dollar shortfall for planned system expansion projects through 2046, an overru

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Resident initiatives will go to November election, Louisville City Council decides

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.02. affordable, affordable housing, development, house, housing, impact fee, income, public hearing, zoning

The Louisville City Council voted Thursday evening to put two resident-led initiatives on the Nov. 4 ballot after those measures got the OK to move forward through a hearing process earlier this week. If passed by voters in November, the first initiative would restrict City Council from rezoning Centennial Valley, Redtail Ridge and the Avista Adventist Hospital area for residential use, except for developments in those areas that would include 30% affordable housing for households with an income of 80% of the area’s median income or less. The second initiative would change the way Louisville i

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Two Porch Crashes, One Block: Why Park Avenue Needs Quick-Build Safety Now

Strong Towns

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.00. bike lane, bikeway, construction, house, parking, project, walk

*On Wednesday, August 20, 2025, a motorist traveling along **Park Avenue near 33rd Street** in Minneapolis smashed through a front porch — again.* Though no one appears to have been injured, it happened directly across from the home of Mark Schoening, whose porch was destroyed in a similar crash in August 2024. “I heard a single speeding car and then a huge crash,” said Jenny Rowe, who lives on the block. She stated that the car plowed through the boulevard tree, the yard, and the front porch; the impact shook her house. Rowe reported that the vehicle actually pushed the 110-year-old stone fou

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Greeley’s getting bigger: Council expands city limits with three annexations

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.20. development, housing, multimodal, planning commission, rent, transportation, zoning

With approval from the Greeley City Council, the city will expand its boundaries to make way for more developments and new homes. On Tuesday, the council approved the annexation and zoning of three land parcels totaling 222.4 acres, located mostly north of the intersection of O Street and Weld County Road 35. This area, now referred to as Willow Vista, expands the city’s boundaries to accommodate its growing population, which is expected to double to more than 220,000 by 2050. Though city officials hope to transform the area into a microcommunity with a variety of housing, commercial and emplo

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