YIMBY News for 2/26

[Eric Budd]

Op-Ed: Nobody Wants to Live Next to a Highway

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 43.13. comp plan, comprehensive plan, growth, house, housing, income, occupancy, project, public space, rent, transportation, urban, walk, zone

So, why do cities cling to highways in residential areas? Highways have a profound impact on the health and wellbeing of our city. If you think about a part of Seattle that is particularly unsafe and hostile to pedestrians, it’s probably adjacent to highway infrastructure. Not only is this infrastructure unsafe and unpleasant to live next to because of air and noise pollution, urban highways actively make it harder for transit to compete with the time it takes to get somewhere driving. Take, for example, my weekly trip from Rainier Valley to bring my kid to language classes near Northgate. Bes

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US democracy has repaired itself before. Here’s how we can do it again.

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 28.20. house, housing, income, rent, segregation, urban

[image: an illustration of a red brick wall with barbed wire above it. A hole in the shape of the United States has been broken through the wall, revealing a sunny, blue-skied scene with a US flag stuck in the ground.] Donald Trump is not forever. There will be an after. It’s hard to see from the present, where everything feels frozen in place. But from history’s vantage, change is the only constant. American democracy has been remade several times — dramatically, unexpectedly, and often in ways that looked impossible until they arrived. Key takeaways - American democracy has been dramatically

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Financing plan advances for apartments at former Longmont Walmart site

Daily Camera Boulder News

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KEYWORD SCORE: 27.33. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, development, housing, parking, parking garage, project, rent, supply, urban

The Longmont City Council voted 5-2 Tuesday night to approve a tax increment financing agreement to redevelop the long-vacant former Walmart site near Hover Street and Nelson Road, with Councilmembers Jake Marsing and Crystal Prieto in opposition. The deal between the city and the Longmont Urban Renewal Authority, the city’s redevelopment arm, clears the way for a 256-unit apartment project just north of Village at the Peaks. The proposal is a “wrap” development, meaning apartments would be built around a parking garage so the garage is mostly hidden from the street. The key question before th

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Why Wall Street panicked over a sci-fi blog post

Vox - Politics

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KEYWORD SCORE: 22.42. apartment, construction, development, growth, house, income, real estate, rent, walk

[image: A robot walks the floor of the New York Stock Exchange.] No one can be certain where AI is taking us. | Michael Nagle/Bloomberg via Getty Images Last year, investors worried that AI would crash the economy by making too little money. Now, they fear it will do so by making *too much*. On Sunday, a little-known financial analysis firm called Citrini Research published a piece of science fiction: A memo dated June 2028, in which its researchers sketch a pocket history of “the global intelligence crisis” — an AI-triggered meltdown of the world’s financial, economic, and political systems.

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Greeley voters reject project that would have built a new arena for the Colorado Eagles

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 21.33. development, downtown, growth, project, rent, zone, zoning

Greeley residents kicked the Colorado Eagles out of their new nest in Tuesday’s special election. At least for now. Ballot proposal 1A was aimed at repealing the zoning permit for the Catalyst and Cascadia projects, which envisioned the city developing and owning a nearly $1 billion entertainment district in West Greeley with a water park, a luxury conference hotel and a new arena for the Colorado Eagles hockey team. It also would have included an adjacent residential development. Voters on Tuesday approved the ballot proposal by a 54-46% margin, 11,342 votes in favor to 9,506 votes against. T

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One Year After the Eaton Fire, Altadena Fights Disaster Capitalism

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.47. affordable, housing, rent

[image: Next City Podcast] Jill Genzon holds a placard with her home address, which she lost in the Eaton Fire, as she talks to neighbors on the one-year anniversary of the fire Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2026, in Altadena, Calif. (Photo by Gregory Bull / AP) It’s been one year since the Eaton Fire destroyed thousands of homes in the historically Black neighborhood of Altadena. Ever since, community leaders have been working to ensure recovery doesn’t mean displacement. In this episode, journalist Corinne Ruff – from our partner newsroom AfroLA, which collaborated with Next City on a series of stories

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