YIMBY News for 1/9

[Eric Budd]

Op-Ed: Katie Wilson Can Be Seattle’s Climate Mayor for Renters

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 40.03. affordable, apartment, homeowner, house, housing, housing authority, income, rent, renter, supply, urban, walk

New programs for heat pumps, induction stoves, and plug-in solar would let renters reap the rewards of the clean energy revolution. *Takeaways*: - Seattle renters are largely locked out of the cost-saving and comfort-improving clean energy appliances, like heat pumps, induction stoves, and solar panels. - Newly inaugurated Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson, a renter herself, could help change that, in part because the City she runs owns its electric utility, Seattle City Light. - New city programs could front the cost of heat pumps and explore new apartment-friendly versions; spread the word and bene

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Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It

BOLTSmag

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KEYWORD SCORE: 32.38. apartment, condo, development, house, housing, mixed-use, preservation, project, rent, walk

*This story was produced in partnership with *High Country News*.* I. *The state troopers came first for Tupe Smith*. They arrived in a pair on November 30, 2023, traveling a stretch of highway that starts in Anchorage but quickly becomes quite rural. They drove past a ski resort and a small shopping center, then turned off through a forested valley with no cell service, until they reached the entrance to the longest highway tunnel in the country: the portal to Whittier, Alaska. The one-lane tunnel, which carves 2.5 dark, musty, bumpy miles through a glacial mountain, opens for two 15-minute p

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Telluride ski patrol union approves a new contract, ending strike and preparing resort re-opening this weekend

Colorado Sun

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KEYWORD SCORE: 28.69. cost of housing, homeowner, house, housing, occupancy, parking, parking lot, real estate, rent, walk

*TELLURIDE* — As light flakes fell, the ski patrollers in this town voted. It wasn’t what they wanted, but it was time. After an unprecedented resort closure and 13-day ski patrol strike that drained holiday business in a community that relies on skiing vacationers, the 75-member Telluride Professional Ski Patrol union on Thursday voted to accept an offer from the resort owner and return to the slopes. It’s been an ugly two weeks in Telluride and Mountain Village. Visitor and second homeowner traffic collapsed over the holidays as patrollers went on strike Dec. 27 and resort owner Chuck Hornin

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Dionne Foster Takes Office, Aiming to Tackle Housing Issues

The Urbanist

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KEYWORD SCORE: 28.20. development, growth, housing, income, rent, renter, urban, zoning

On Tuesday, Dionne Foster took her oath of office, becoming the newest member of the Seattle City Council. A nonprofit leader, Foster was elected in a citywide race, taking down former Seattle Council President Sara Nelson by a staggering margin of 26 points. The ideological differences between Foster and Nelson were stark, with Foster joining the Council’s resurgent progressive wing. Meanwhile, Nelson anchored a centrist majority and recruited a slate of more conservative candidates who swept into office in 2023 and controlled the Council for two years, before voters appeared to tire of that

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