Louisville for Everyone

04/08/2026

Sustainable development in Broomfield shows that adding homes and density, done right, can improve biodiversity and support pollinators. Impressive work by this developer.

At Baseline master-planned community in Broomfield, residents support pollinators that support clean water and our food.

03/30/2026

San Diego has built enough new homes that rents are starting to fall. Like Boulder and Louisville, some people in San Diego said 'you can never build enough to satisfy the demand to move here.' This shows that even in a highly desirable place, demand is not unlimited and prices are responsive to supply and demand.

Rents in San Diego for a 1-bedroom apartment decreased by 5.6% year-over-year, more than every city in the top 20 priciest markets except New Haven, CT

03/13/2026

A look at our neighbor, Longmont, and how how small, incremental changes can help solve the housing crisis.

Adding new homes to a city doesn't have to mean giant apartment buildings, but we need to allow for incremental growth.
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2026-3-6-a-housing-ready-city-begins-with-one-simple-tweak

How changing a single letter can open the door to more housing options in a place where the pressures are piling up.

03/12/2026

From Redfin Chief Economist Daryl Fairweather: Are Wall Street Investors Buying All The Homes?

The Wall Street Housing Myth: Who is Really Buying America?

02/23/2026

02/16/2026

Yet another family torn apart by our dangerous, car-centered suburban design. We need to build our cities for people, not cars.

Police said the crash happened around 4:40 p.m. Sunday in the neighborhood northeast of Mountain View Boulevard and Village Vista Drive.

01/29/2026

The federal government wants home prices to rise even more. If we want affordable homes, it falls on all of us at the local level to do the work. We need to change our own laws and build more homes here. Washington isn't going to help us.

01/28/2026

TOMORROW - Wed, Jan 28
5:30-7:30pm
The Simon, 957 Main St.

If you support housing in Louisville, come to the Comprehensive Plan Open House, learn about the new draft plan, and share your thoughts.

View the draft plan and more info here:

Let's Create Louisville's Future! The City of Louisville is updating its Comprehensive Plan, one of the community's most important policy documents. The last update was in 2013, and a lot has changed since then! The Comprehensive Plan update is an opportunity for the

12/05/2025

As we look to build more homes in Louisville, we should move quickly to adopt best practices for single stair buildings. These buildings cost less, fit neighborhood scale better, and provide more liveable units than traditional apartment buildings. We should legalize them right away.

Colorado is taking a bold step on housing! A new state law now allows multifamily buildings of up to five stories to use a single staircase, cutting construction costs by hundreds of thousands of dollars and creating brighter, better-ventilated homes.
https://plnn.org/3XP6XqZ

11/26/2025

Utah's statewide trail network is ambitious and exciting, and it shows that good bike infrastructure is not 'liberal' or 'conservative,' but human. We are all better off when we can get out of our cars and enjoy the natural world safely.

Utah plans to build a statewide network of paved trails that will act like an interstate system for bikes.

11/14/2025

Does building market rate apartments make homes more affordable? In Denver, the data says 'yes.'

"[W]e found that Class C buildings (the most affordable segment, with buildings that tend to be older and have fewer amenities) saw average rents fall 10.0% over this period. This was more than double the decline for more expensive Class A or B apartments, which are newer and offer more amenities. This challenges the common narrative that building new market-rate housing only benefits high-income renters. Instead, when metro Denver built more housing, the steepest rent declines occurred in the older, more affordable properties typically occupied by lower-income renters."

Denver’s recent experience shows that when we build more housing, rents fall – and they fall the most for households that need the greatest relief.