YIMBY News for 10/28

[Eric Budd]

Progressives Rally Behind Katie Wilson in Home Stretch to Mayoral Election

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 34.53. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, downtown, house, housing, housing cost, income, project, rent, urban

“It’s never been more important to have a movement mayor,” Wilson said during Sunday’s rally. Speakers laid out stark differences between Seattle’s two mayoral candidates at a campaign rally for Seattle Mayoral candidate Katie Wilson on Sunday. Many made the case that the contrast extends to fundamental political instincts and approach: Wilson is a bottom-up coalition-builder and a movement mayor, but incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell represents the top-down old guard more interested in protecting those who already have power, they argued. A crowd of more than 100 people at Washington Hall in the

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The Conference Where Small Business Advocates Find Their People

Next City

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KEYWORD SCORE: 29.67. affordable, affordable housing, construction, development, gentrification, gentrifying, housing, real estate, rent, urban, walk

Attendees at a 2023 mobile workshop talk with a beauty salon employee about how the construction of Maryland's Purple Line light rail is impacting the neighborhood, which is majority immigrant. Hosted by the Purple Line Corridor Coalition, the workshop visited small businesses and community organizations along the rail corridor in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. (Photo by Sarah Silbiger) Sponsored content from Small Business Anti-Displacement Network. Sponsored content policy It was Sheila Somashekhar’s turn to share during a recent webinar when she mentioned that her organization — The Purple

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SDOT Advances SLU Bus Corridor, Lacking Plan to Route Buses There

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 20.94. bus route, bus stop, construction, parking, parking garage, project, rent, transportation, urban

As transit advocates continue to push for additional bus priority to speed up the often-delayed Route 8 on Denny Way, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is advancing plans for dedicated bus lanes a few streets away. The Harrison and Mercer Transit Access Project, which would create a new transit pathway connecting South Lake Union and Uptown, continues to move forward as a priority project, in spite of no clear plan to move bus service onto the corridor. *The Urbanist* has been spotlighting the Harrison and Mercer Street project since 2022, when SDOT started seeking regional fundi

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Tricky Times Ahead for Governments’ Cash Managers

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 18.48. construction, house, housing, income, project, rent

After resisting presidential pressure to cut interest rates until it became clear that the inflationary impact of tariffs would not be as severe as first expected, the Federal Reserve has begun what appears to be at least a short series of likely quarter-point reductions in its key federal funds rate. Just how many of those cuts there will be and how deep they will go in early 2026 and beyond is still the big question in the money markets. Except for a few government treasurers and their external cash managers who’ve already locked up higher-yielding investments maturing late next year and int

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