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California YIMBY

@cayimby

9 months

A massive housing supply increase in Minneapolis has cut rent growth almost to zero.

First American City to Tame Inflation Owes Its Success to Affordable Housing

The Minneapolis area has seen an increase in rental units, thanks to a regional effort that included new zoning rules.

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[VICTORY ALERT] @GavinNewsom has signed AB 835, the single-stair study bill! Thanks to @alex_lee for his leadership on moving California toward international best practices for fire suppression and livable apartments. More on single-stair here:

AB 835 – Build A Wider Variety of Homes - California YIMBY

AB 835 will help expand the production of more affordable, family-sized apartments and flats by making it legal to build these types of homes on smaller and unusually-sized properties in our cities....

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@cayimby

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“These studies show that zoning changes and other land-use reforms can increase the supply of housing, help control prices, and boost local tax bases.” YIMBY policies: they work!

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3 years

BREAKING NEWS: California YIMBY Celebrates Housing Legislation: "The end of exclusionary, single-unit zoning in California is a historic moment," said @hanlonbt . READ MORE >>>

California YIMBY Celebrates Signing of Historic Housing Legislation - California YIMBY

Governor Newsom Takes a Stand for More Affordable Homes, Signs SB 9, SB 10, SB 8, and AB 1174 “A great day for everyone who wants to end California’s affordable housing shortage” SACRAMENTO –...

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@cayimby

2 years

[VICTORY ALERT] @GavinNewsom has signed into law the most sweeping pro-housing legislation of this session, and of the past few years: @BuffyWicks ! #AB2011 . Under-utilized commercial properties throughout the state can now be used for more affordable homes – and we're ecstatic!

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@cayimby

7 months

Seattle builds housing and San Francisco doesn't. This isn't rocket surgery.

Roland Li

@rolandlisf

7 months

SF and Seattle have powerful tech economies that both went remote, water and hills, homelessness and fentanyl crises. But Seattle grew an astounding 2.4% in population in latest census year, the most of ANY big U.S. city. I wanted to find out why:

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@cayimby

2 years

We're thrilled to announce that @mnolangray has joined California YIMBY as our Research Director! Nolan will help us better understand the causes of the housing crisis and evaluate the efficacy of policy remedies. (also, buy his book!)

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@cayimby

8 months

California housing policy pushes people out of temperate, climate-safe areas on the coast and into inland exurbs where they are at risk of extreme heat and wildfires.

Californians move inland for safety, cheaper housing — but find extreme heat that’s getting worse

Many Californians in the counties with the most affordable housing will be most at risk for extreme heat in the decades to come, according to a Times analysis.

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@cayimby

3 years

VIDEO: In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the housing crisis. WATCH and RT our new video that shows how more homes near jobs and transit can reduce climate pollution -- and make California more affordable for everyone:

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@cayimby

2 years

[EXCEPTIONAL SHOUP VICTORY ALERT] AB 2097, our bill with Asm. @laurafriedman43 to end parking mandates in transit-rich areas, has been signed into law by Gov. @GavinNewsom !! A giant step toward a more affordable, climate-resilient California. READ MORE >>>

California YIMBY Statement on Governor Signing AB 2097 - California YIMBY

A More Affordable and Climate-Resilient California “Landmark legislation for housing affordability and climate action” SACRAMENTO – Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law AB 2097, a...

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@cayimby

9 months

The evidence is abundantly clear: reforming zoning and permitting to allow for more housing supply slows down rent increases.

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@cayimby

6 years

The Berkeley zoning board has turned down a 23-unit co-housing project one block from a BART rapid transit station in order to preserve ... a gas station. This is why we YIMBY. Read more >>

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@cayimby

4 years

🚨ALERT🚨 Governor Newsom might veto AB 3182 under the intense pressure he’s getting from HOAs to do so. AB 3182 prohibits HOAs from enacting blanket bans on renters in their communities. Urge the Governor to sign AB 3182 TODAY!

Stand with renters & fight back against NIMBY homeowners associations—tell Governor Newsom to sign...

AB 3182 makes it legal for homeowners whose properties are in a homeowner’s association (HOA) to rent their homes out, and it passed the legislature thanks to your support. Now, NIMBYs are trying to...

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@cayimby

3 years

SUCCESS!! “With the passage of SB 9 by the State Assembly, the California legislature has taken a major step toward helping more Californians achieve the dream of affordable home ownership,” said @hanlonbt , President and CEO of California YIMBY.

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@cayimby

6 months

As it turns out, building more homes gives renters more options and makes it harder for landlords to raise rents.

Redfin

@Redfin

6 months

The median U.S. rent price in October was $1,978, nearly the same as a year ago. That’s because an increase in new rentals drove up vacancies, making it harder for landlords to raise prices 👉 #housing

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@cayimby

3 years

“Meet Gabriela. She works hard, but still struggles with the high cost of housing.” WATCH and SHARE our new video! “California’s housing crisis is no accident -- it’s the result of decades of bad policy”

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@cayimby

4 months

The price of housing is set by supply and demand. Austin saw rapid price growth when a surge of demand met a stagnant housing stock in 2021-22. That sparked a development boom, and now that a bunch of new homes are coming on the market, prices are going down. Supply works!

Nick Gerli

@nickgerli1

4 months

The Austin, TX Housing Market is turning into a bloodbath. Home Values already down -16% from their peak in mid-2022. 📉 Warning signal to rest of US Housing Market. Once inventory rises, all bets are off.

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@cayimby

7 months

[VICTORY ALERT] @GavinNewsom has signed SB 423 into law! This law by @Scott_Wiener extends and expands streamlining for mixed-income housing projects that follow zoning in cities that are behind on meeting their state housing goals. Our statement:

California YIMBY Statement on Governor Signing of SB 423 - California YIMBY

Extension and Expansion of Game-Changing SB 35 “A huge win for workers, for affordable housing, and for the climate” SACRAMENTO – Today, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law SB 423,...

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@cayimby

9 months

Critics sometimes say that our streamlining bills “eliminate community input” for housing; but this is what that so-called community input actually looks like: disproportionately older, whiter, home-owning residents screaming at elected officials about broadly-popular projects.

Westside For Everyone

@WestsideForEv

9 months

Okay, here are the clips. Katy Young Yaroslavsky accurately describes the problem, crowd shouts her down when she says many unhoused people used to be housed in our community, Rabbi (?) tries to calm people down and reminds people it’s a house of worship, crowd jeers

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@cayimby

8 months

California lawmakers pass ‘Yes In God’s Back Yard’ bill to let churches build housing

California lawmakers pass ‘YIGBY’ bill to let churches build affordable housing

A state bill that could allow churches to build affordable housing on their parking lots...

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@cayimby

2 years

Students are not pollutants. We're outraged that NIMBYs have weaponized CEQA to rob young Californians of their future. Stay tuned...

UC Berkeley wants state Supreme Court to lift enrollment cap resulting from neighborhood group...

UC Berkeley is asking the state Supreme Court to lift a freeze on its enrollment, ordered...

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@cayimby

3 years

BREAKING NEWS: Leading California environmental, climate groups endorse AB 1401: "Ending costly parking mandates is a necessary step toward slashing pollution and traffic in our cities." READ MORE >>>

Leading California Environmental, Climate Groups Endorse AB 1401 - California YIMBY

Push for Parking Reform Gains Momentum; Groups Site Climate, Air Quality Benefits “AB 1401 will help us meet our climate goals” Today, 10 of California’s leading climate, environmental, and transit...

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@cayimby

4 months

Looks like we should build more homes in California.

Michael Li 李之樸

@mcpli

5 months

A map of the 2030 reapportionment based on new population estimates released today by the Census Bureau.

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@cayimby

3 months

State law is reining in cities' ability to endlessly delay badly needed housing. Belvedere was slow-walking this 40-home project. The developer told the city council that they were considering a 70-unit Builder's Remedy project, after which the 40 homes were swiftly approved.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

3 months

JUST IN: Affluent Bay Area city approves largest housing development in decades

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@cayimby

11 months

[BILL ALERT] Here comes single stair reform! #AB835 just passed the Assembly on a unanimous 63-0 vote. Now it's on to the State Senate. Learn more:

AB 835 – Build A Wider Variety of Homes - California YIMBY

AB 835 will help expand the production of more affordable, family-sized apartments and flats by making it legal to build these types of homes on smaller and unusually-sized properties in our cities....

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@cayimby

2 years

We are thrilled to report AB 2011, @BuffyWicks ' bill to accelerate affordable housing on commercially-zoned properties, has passed full State Assembly and is headed to the Senate! Thanks to all your advocacy -- more work to do, but this is a giant step:

AB 2011 - California YIMBY

AB 2011 allows for ministerial, by-right approval for affordable housing on commercially-zoned lands, and also allows such approvals for mixed-income housing along commercial corridors, as long as...

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@cayimby

5 years

🎉 @PhilTing ’s #AB68 is now law 🎉 #AB68 effectively ends single family zoning in California 🙂 It’s now easier to build not one, but *two* ADUs across the state. Thank you @GavinNewsom for removing red tape around ADU construction & effectively ending single family zoning!

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@cayimby

5 years

And SB 50 passes the committee!!! Count is 6-1!!! Congrats all!

California YIMBY

@cayimby

5 years

You nervous? We're a little nervous! Our first big hearing to pass #SB50 , the More HOMES Act, is a little over an hour away - we'll be live-tweeting, but you can also catch the action on video here (scroll down to "Senate Housing Committee):

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@cayimby

10 months

Low density zoning in coastal California is climate denialism.

Kyle Huey

@khuey_

10 months

I was in Manteca for lunch yesterday and it was 107F. Today in San Francisco it is 57F. It's completely mad that the state allows the wealthy temperate coast to export housing demand to the boiling interior.

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[BILL ALERT] AB 1633 by @AsmPhilTing , which limits abuses of CEQA for housing developments that have already been found in compliance with local and state land use and environmental regulations, has passed the State Senate!

AB 1633 — Hold Cities Accountable - California YIMBY

AB 1633 will end the inappropriate abuse of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) by jurisdictions that attempt to block new housing developments that have already been found in compliance...

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@cayimby

3 months

The data is abundantly clear: building new housing makes the existing housing nearby less expensive.

M. Nolan Gray

@mnolangray

3 months

"Within 500 ft, for every 10% increase in the housing stock, rents decrease by 1%; and for every 10% increase in the condo stock, condo sales prices decrease by 0.9%."

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@cayimby

2 years

[MAJOR SHOUP VICTORY ALERT] We did it! AB 2097, @laurafriedman43 's landmark bill to end parking mandates in transit-rich areas, has passed the State Senate! Next step is concurrence, then we need Governor Newsom to sign this bill.

AB 2097-Housing for people, not cars - California YIMBY

AB 2097 will reduce the cost of housing while slashing the pollution that causes climate change by eliminating expensive parking mandates for homes and commercial buildings near transit, or in...

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@cayimby

9 months

California’s high housing prices are pricing the middle class out of the state entirely and sending 300 people *a day* to Texas, an 80% increase since 2012.

'We kept getting outbid': Californians moving to Texas explain why they're changing states

The reasons behind a California-to-Texas move are varied but housing affordability and politics are major reasons.

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@cayimby

9 months

California's high housing costs are a policy choice.

Los Angeles Times

@latimes

9 months

Opinion: The $1 million home is becoming the norm in L.A. This is an outrage we could have prevented

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@cayimby

2 years

AB 2053, @alex_lee ’s bill to create a CA social housing program, has died in committee. We're disappointed in the outcome, but grateful for Asm. Lee's leadership, and for our volunteers who advocated for AB 2053. The fight for a CA Housing Authority isn't over!

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@cayimby

3 years

(Almost) FLAWLESS VICTORY! ✅ SB 9 ✅ SB 10 ✅ SB 477 ✅ SB 478 ✅ AB 602 ❎ AB 1401 We've had a great legislative year! Thank you to all of our partners and grassroots activists. Onward to greater victories in 2022!

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@cayimby

4 years

🥳 BREAKING NEWS: We won! Thanks to the advocacy of YIMBYs around the state, we’ve defeated NIMBY Bill #AB1063 !

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@cayimby

5 months

The core theory of YIMBYism—that housing prices are set by supply and demand, so the only way to make housing broadly affordable is to increase the supply of housing—is straightforwardly true. We need to build more homes.

Redfin

@Redfin

5 months

The tides turn for renters as rent prices post the biggest decline in over three years. The median U.S. asking rent fell 2% year over year to $1,967 in November as landlords grapple with rising vacancies due to a building boom in recent years. #housing

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@cayimby

8 months

It’s not drugs or weather or mental illness or an overly generous welfare state. California has high rates of homelessness because we intentionally use zoning to make housing expensive. It’s a policy choice. We can stop doing this whenever we want.

Los Angeles Times

@latimes

8 months

Mississippi has a lot of problems, but housing homeless isn't a big one. Throughout this @Noahbierman series examining homelessness elsewhere we've seen a familiar thread. What L.A. and California should know.

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@cayimby

9 months

Today’s highs in expensive, anti-housing coastal California cities: Santa Monica - 78° San Francisco - 65° La Jolla - 75° Today’s highs in the inexpensive cities that people priced out of coastal CA move to: Phoenix - 109° Las Vegas - 104° Houston - 101° Dallas - 104°

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

9 months

BREAKING: July was the hottest month ever recorded

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6 months

Let's dive into the findings from this report. It starts with a short introduction and an overview of HCD's statutory authority to conduct this kind of review, then moves on to an explanation of why HCD is specifically scrutinizing SF's housing policy.

California YIMBY

@cayimby

6 months

BREAKING: @California_HCD has just released its San Francisco Housing Policy and Practice Review, an in-depth investigation into San Francisco's dysfunctional housing permitting process. The report is here:

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@cayimby

6 months

Thanks to @BuffyWicks ’ AB 2011, these 672 new homes can be built by-right, without having to be approved by the famously dysfunctional and anti-housing San Francisco Board of Supervisors. State housing law gets it done!

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

6 months

Veteran developer Paul Paradis is on a mission to add another “jewel” to the city’s crown: a 71-story tower that would rise higher than any existing apartment building in San Francisco, and become the third tallest building in the city.

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@cayimby

3 years

SB 9 passes!!! Thank you to everyone who called and emailed their Assemblymember. Thank you to @SenToniAtkins for authoring SB 9, and @RobertRivas_CA for moving this bill through the Assembly!

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@cayimby

3 years

Cities have made it illegal to build new homes on 75% of their land, leading to CA’s current affordability crisis. It doesn’t have to be this way. Check out our latest video to understand how the affordability crisis affects Californians of all incomes

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@cayimby

10 months

NEW REPORT: The process that the City and County of LA uses to approve multi-family housing proposals within its jurisdiction is a recipe for political corruption and high housing costs and should be reformed.

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@cayimby

4 months

Senator Warren is absolutely right: we need to move away from a cookie cutter, “one size fits all” single family zoning model and broadly legalize diverse housing that works for people in every stage of life, in every neighborhood.

Elizabeth Warren

@ewarren

4 months

As a nation, we need all kinds of new housing—for first-time homebuyers, renters, seniors, people with disabilities, students, veterans, people who don't have housing, everyone. Experts say we’re over 7 million units short, and costs are going up like a hot air balloon.

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1 year

This is a perfect example of how housing is a climate issue. Berkeley's refusal to build enough housing to accommodate UC students and staff drives up the price of housing, which forces people to commute long distances by car or, in this extreme case, by plane.

Justin? more like 🚍tin

@marxling

1 year

Can't get over this Reddit post about a Berkeley student who flew to classes for a whole academic year to not pay Bay Area rent

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@cayimby

6 months

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors just jeopardized the city’s Housing Element compliance. If the state cracks down and revokes their compliance, the city becomes eligible for the Builders Remedy and loses state funding for affordable housing and transportation. 1/8

Mike Ege

@MikeEge

6 months

Supervisors postpone a housing reform bill demanded by the state until and risk missing the deadline for an ultimatum. Some Say the ultimatum caused the delay in the first place. Click the pic to read the story.

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@cayimby

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When we don’t build enough new housing, rich people outbid the poor for the best existing housing and the poorest get priced out into homelessness. When we do build new housing, everyone gets to “move on up” into nicer homes, and fewer people become homeless.

Jonathan Nolan

@Jonathan_Nolan_

3 months

New apartments cause a 'chain reaction' that benefits the poor, but I was shocked to find out just how quickly. This Swedish study found that while the rich move into fancy new homes, the place they left empty was most likely to be taken up by the bottom 20%.

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@cayimby

2 months

California Coastal Commission says YES to widening roads through wetlands and sensitive habitat and NO to new housing in already urbanized areas. Make it make sense!

Christopher Pederson

@ch_pederson

2 months

The Coastal Commission just approved a road widening project despite impacts to wetlands & other sensitive habitat. It didn't evaluate whether induced travel would undercut promised traffic improvements. The Coastal Act's habitat protections go out the door for road projects.

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@cayimby

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Homelessness is a housing supply problem. When we don’t build enough homes, the price of housing goes up. When the price of housing goes up, homelessness rates increase, with inflection points when median rents 22% and 32% of median income.

Philip Pilkington

@philippilk

2 months

Lol the YIMBYs marry their lobbying for the construction industry with popular causes like climate and relief for the homeless. I’m not surprised flag-in-bio types fall for this but its insanely embarrassing that the edgelord right-wing do.

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@cayimby

6 years

🎉 AB 2923 passed! 🎉 More homes will be coming to BART stations if @JerryBrownGov signs the bill! Thank you to everyone who wrote or called their state Senator.

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@cayimby

5 months

Legalize it.

Ryan Globus

@ryanglobus

5 months

Missing middle gingerbread housing

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@cayimby

3 months

Hello America, we are here from California to tell you to reform your zoning laws before you end up with a housing market like ours.

Jeremy 'adjusted for inflation' Horpedahl 📈

@jmhorp

3 months

In 1980, unaffordable housing was mostly confined to coastal South California. By 2000, it had only really spread to the NY-Boston corridor. Before the pandemic, it had spread up the West Coast, the Mountain States, and Florida. Today, unaffordable housing is everywhere.

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1 year

“The Special Assistant Attorney General for Housing, a position newly created in the State of California, will have former Mayor Alex Fisch at the helm starting on Monday, May 22, 2023. ‘I’m absolutely thrilled,’ Fisch offered. ‘It’s a dream job.’”

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@cayimby

1 year

Homebuilders are beginning to file permits for multifamily housing in Santa Monica under the builder's remedy, after the city's housing element was rejected by state regulators

City Hall braces for the Builder's Remedy development boom

Developers have begun filing permits to build large housing projects throughout the city that far exceed local zoning restrictions.

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10 months

Can’t believe they downzoned Twitter.

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10 months

[BILL ALERT] SB 423, which extends and expands SB 35's housing streamlining provisions, has passed out of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee! Learn about the bill here:

SB 423 — Extend SB 35 - California YIMBY

SB 423 extends the provisions of SB 35, and expands them to encourage mixed-income housing developments. SB 35, which is scheduled to sunset in 2026, was signed into law in 2017 and has produced...

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@cayimby

3 years

We are disappointed to report the Senate Appropriations Committee did not allow a vote on AB 1401, which would end expensive parking mandates. This issue is important to us -- we need housing for people, not cars -- and we'll continue to fight for reform.

AB 1401 - California YIMBY

AB 1401 will eliminate parking mandates for homes and commercial buildings near transit, or in neighborhoods with low rates of car use in counties with more than 600,000 residents. Parking mandates,...

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@cayimby

6 years

#SB827 would permit beautiful Paris-scale density near transit stations. A more vibrant and inclusive California is possible.

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@weel

6 years

I think every time I see somebody describe 85' as a "high rise" or say it's too tall, I should just post this with no comment...

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@cayimby

8 months

California housing is expensive because we have a lot of high paying jobs and not enough homes. The ONLY way to bring down the price of housing and stop people from being pushed into homelessness is to build more homes near jobs.

KTLA

@KTLA

8 months

When Californians are asked to identify the biggest problems facing the state, homelessness and the high cost of living consistently rise to the top of the list. While they are not one and the same, experts say both can trace their roots to the same problem: a housing shortage in…

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21 days

Thanks in large part to the California Coastal Commission, which has veto authority over new housing in much of the city, Santa Cruz enjoys the dubious distinction of being the least affordable small city in America, with the highest rate of homelessness. It’s time for a change.

sandhya

@dollarbillbluez

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Finding housing in Santa Cruz is going great :-)

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@cayimby

4 years

@Rendon63rd , Californians need more affordable homes. Please #FreeSB1120 and permit a vote on a bill that rejects the exclusionary policies of Trump and the McCloskeys in favor of a more inclusive and affordable California!

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2 years

SHOUP VICTORY ALERT: The California State Assembly has approved AB 2097, our bill with @laurafriedman43 , to end costly and polluting parking mandates in walkable neighborhoods!! It now moves to the Senate. Learn more:

AB 2097-Housing for people, not cars - California YIMBY

AB 2097 will reduce the cost of housing while slashing the pollution that causes climate change by eliminating expensive parking mandates for homes and commercial buildings near transit, or in...

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@cayimby

9 months

It’s not poverty, or drug addiction, or mental illness, or warm weather. California has high rates of homelessness because we refuse to build enough housing. That’s it.

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6 years

#SB827 is radical in the sense that it gets at the root cause of the problem, but it's also eminently reasonable. The type of housing it authorizes is how cities used to be built: mid-rise, relatively cheap construction near jobs and transit. - @hanlonbt

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@cayimby

6 months

California housing is unaffordable because we haven’t built enough of it for 40 years. If we relax zoning and make multifamily housing by-right in the places people want to live, housing prices will come down.

Jay Parsons

@jayparsons

6 months

It ain't rocket science. It's supply and demand, and it's real thing. Build a lot of apartments, rents slow. Don't build a lot of apartments, rents grow.

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7 months

“Once SB423 goes into effect and SF flunks its state assessment, getting new housing approved will be much more like getting your license renewed at the DMV: You fill out some basic paperwork, pay the processing fees and wait in line for your short appointment at the counter.”

fry

@anniefryman

7 months

Surprise! By next summer, most housing developments (including market-rate) in SF get streamlined, objective approvals through a last minute update to @Scott_Wiener ’s SB 35 — now known as SB 423. No CEQA, discretionary review, appeals… My piece:

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Two single family homes are becoming 12 apartments (2 of them affordable) and retail in Imperial Beach. Thanks to AB 2097 and local policy, the transit-served project will only have 6 parking spaces, as well as bike racks and subsidized bus passes.

Fewer parking spots, more incentives to ride your bike: Imperial Beach OKs new mixed-use project

The 12-unit development will offer only six parking spots. It will have a bike-repair station and subsidized transit passes.

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@cayimby

8 months

It’s really simple: housing is expensive because we do not have enough of it in the places where people want to live. As such, building more housing lowers prices and helps working people afford a better life.

Hamilton Nolan

@hamiltonnolan

8 months

As long as there is a severe housing shortage landlords have pricing power to squeeze us all. Building more housing is good for working people and not building housing is good for Blackstone.

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@cayimby

3 months

“Above all, Sacramento changed its apartment building approval process from a political one—with approvals by elected officials, as in SF—to a ‘ministerial’ process, with decisions made impartially by planning staff. If a proposed building complies with the code, it’s approved.”

Ben Raderstorf

@braderstorf

3 months

Don't look now, but Sacramento is showing California how to beat the housing crisis. The city is throwing the kitchen sink at "build more of everything." And it's working. My @SacYIMBY op-ed in the @sfchronicle today:

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@cayimby

27 days

We are excited to announce our agenda for the current legislative session. Our bills fit into 4 big buckets: bending the cost curve by reforming impact fees; refining and expanding on our previous wins; creating new paths to homeownership; and keeping momentum on ADUs.

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@cayimby

3 years

Major Shoup Announcement: AB 1401 passes the Assembly with 45 votes!!! Your calls and e-mails made a difference! Thanks to @laurafriedman43 and our co-sponsors @SPUR_Urbanist @AbundantHousing and @InfillCouncil - parking reform goes on to the Senate!

AB 1401 - California YIMBY

AB 1401 will eliminate parking mandates for homes and commercial buildings near transit, or in neighborhoods with low rates of car use in counties with more than 600,000 residents. Parking mandates,...

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@cayimby

3 months

We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and not a man; but yes.

derek guy

@dieworkwear

3 months

men say “im fighting demons” and the demon is a chronic housing shortage causing unaffordable housing

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@cayimby

4 years

AB 725, which requires fourplexes as a part of high income housing plans, diversifying housing options and neighborhoods, passes to Governor Newsom!! Congratulations Asm @BuffyWicks !!! It’s been a pleasure to work with you and your staff on this bill. 🤝

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@cayimby

7 months

AB 1633 passed out of the legislature, but opponents are mobilizing to urge the Governor to veto it. We need your help to show the Governor that Californians support this bill. Use this link to call the governor's office and urge him to sign AB 1633!

AB 1633 Call Tool - California YIMBY

AB 1633 is on the Governor's desk! Let the Governor know Californians support this good government bill and call today!

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@cayimby

2 years

AB 2097 by @laurafriedman43 will reduce housing costs and slash climate and air pollution by eliminating expensive parking mandates on new homes built near high-quality transit. If that sounds good to you, tell your State Senator to vote YES!

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@cayimby

2 years

[VICTORY ALERT] This is huge – the most sweeping pro-housing legislation of this session, and of the past few years: Asm. @BuffyWicks ' AB 2011 has passed the State Senate!

AB 2011 - California YIMBY

AB 2011 allows for ministerial, by-right approval for affordable housing on commercially-zoned lands, and also allows such approvals for mixed-income housing along commercial corridors, as long as...

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@cayimby

6 months

In a true "housing theory of everything" moment, California housing is getting so expensive that even people like Nathan who work in homeless services are being priced out of the state entirely. We have to build.

Nathan S.

@nathansheets

6 months

Opinion: I run an L.A. homeless services organization. But I can't afford to live in L.A. anymore

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@cayimby

6 months

In short, San Francisco is *extremely* slow to approve new housing: it takes an average of 523 days to entitle a housing project and 605 days for a project to get a building permit. This means SF is not on track to meet its state housing goals.

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@cayimby

4 years

AB 725, one of our sponsored bills by Asm @BuffyWicks , ✅passes✅ the Senate!!! This bill requires local governments to plan for fourplexes as a part of their high income housing planning, helping diversify our housing (and neighborhoods) while making it more affordable! Woohoo!!

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@cayimby

2 months

Fact check: true.

Christopher Roberts 🇺🇸🇺🇦

@ElectRoberts

2 months

“We need to build, build, build” to reduce housing costs - @POTUS to @leagueofcities #CCC24

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@cayimby

3 months

California’s current historic preservation system isn’t working. We need a system that protects extraordinary buildings without freezing entire neighborhoods in time and worsening the housing affordability crisis.

Housing Spock

@HousingSpock

3 months

While American cities full of 1950s tract housing are busy blocking development by abusing historical preservation, Kyoto, an actually historic city, is busy building up. Individual buildings of significance can be preserved without turning entire cities into museums.

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@cayimby

3 years

BREAKING NEWS the California Restaurant Association supports AB 1401! "Most jurisdictions in the State are saddled with out-of-date parking requirements that are difficult to fix. They generally require significantly more onsite parking than is needed."

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@cayimby

6 months

NIMBYs will use any regulatory tools they can find to block housing and maintain their neighborhoods’ exclusivity, including historic preservation regulations. Over the past 2 years, wealthy enclaves have scrambled to declare themselves historic to block SB 9 development.

San Francisco Chronicle

@sfchronicle

6 months

A stealth effort to have California designate one of San Mateo’s wealthiest neighborhoods as a historic district could create a playbook for other Bay Area enclaves looking to avoid complying with new state laws.

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@cayimby

8 months

[BILL ALERT] AB 835, the single stair reform study bill, has passed its concurrence vote on the Assembly floor, 66-0! Learn more here:

AB 835 – Build A Wider Variety of Homes - California YIMBY

AB 835 will help expand the production of more affordable, family-sized apartments and flats by making it legal to build these types of homes on smaller and unusually-sized properties in our cities....

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@cayimby

7 months

Homelessness is a housing problem. When we don't build enough homes, rents go up. When rents go up, some people are priced out onto the street. If we want to end homelessness, we need to build enough housing to bring housing costs down.

The Pew Trusts

@pewtrusts

7 months

Analysis comparing data from 2017 & 2022 found areas with fast rent growth—Sacramento, Fresno, Raleigh, Phoenix, Austin, and Tucson—saw homelessness spike. Places with slow rent growth—Minneapolis, Houston, Philadelphia, and Chicago—saw homelessness drop.

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@cayimby

9 months

“‘I can’t tell you how many people were like, ‘Oh, look at all this supply, look at all these just brand new buildings,’ and kind of scoffing at it like this was going to lead to gentrification or rents skyrocketing,’ said Mayor Jacob Frey. ‘The exact opposite has happened.’”

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈

@maxdubler

9 months

Minneapolis has a YIMBY message for America: Build more houses and get rid of suburban-style zoning and inflation will disappear.

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@cayimby

1 year

Housing policy is climate policy. High housing costs have pushed Californians to live in areas at risk of dangerous wildfires. We're co-sponsoring #AB68 with @AsmChrisWard to address this.

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@cayimby

3 years

NEWS: California YIMBY, @laurafriedman43 announce legislation to end parking mandates: “By ending mandates for unaffordable parking for cars, we can make it easier to build affordable housing for humans.” READ MORE >>>

California YIMBY Joins Asm. Laura Friedman to End Costly Parking Mandates - California YIMBY

“Affordable Housing for Humans, Not Unaffordable Parking for Cars” Mandates Add Up to $80,000 Per Parking Spot to Cost of Housing, Rent “200 Square Mile Parking Crater” SACRAMENTO – Today, Califo...

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@cayimby

2 months

Empirical evidence increasingly proves that building new market rate homes sets off a series of “moving chains” that free up existing inexpensive apartments for low-income families.

Darrell Owens

@IDoTheThinking

2 months

Minneapolis Federal Reserve did a study on the city's flat & decling rents, finding that for every 100 market rate apartments built, 70 existing apartments were freed up in low income neighborhoods. What lessons on gentrification can be extracted here.

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@cayimby

7 months

[VICTORY ALERT] @GavinNewsom has signed SB 4 into law! This law by @Scott_Wiener will allow faith organizations like churches, synagogues, and mosques, as well as nonprofit colleges to build affordable housing on their land. Learn more:

SB 4 – Affordable Housing on Faith Lands Act - California YIMBY

SB 4, the Affordable Housing on Faith Lands Act, provides a streamlined process for religious organizations and nonprofit colleges to develop affordable housing on their property. Many of Californi...

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@cayimby

2 years

VICTORY ALERT!!! AB 2097 has passed Senate Appropriations: “California has a severe housing shortage, not a parking shortage. AB 2097 is a vital first step toward prioritizing affordable housing for people above costly and harmful parking mandates." >>>

Statement on Senate Appropriations Passage of AB 2097 - California YIMBY

More Homes for People, Fewer Costly Parking Mandates “California has a housing shortage, not a parking shortage” SACRAMENTO – Today, California YIMBY released the following statement about the...

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@cayimby

6 months

Slowly but surely, California's statewide pro-housing reforms are opening up the wealthy, exclusive cities that have used zoning to close their doors to working- and middle-class residents.

Liam Dillon

@dillonliam

7 months

After more than two years of resistance, the city of Coronado — one of the most flagrant resisters to a key state affordable housing law — agreed to set aside new land for housing, Gov. @GavinNewsom and @AGRobBonta announced this morning

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@cayimby

3 months

Zoning reform skeptics argue that the affordability gains from denser development will be cancelled out by increased land values; but @ebwhamilton looked at the data from Houston's minimum lot size reform and found no evidence for that. Our summary:

Smaller Lots, Smaller Prices: Evidence from Houston - California YIMBY

In recent years, pro-housing reformers around the country have successfully changed state and local land use policies to allow greater density on residential lots zoned exclusively for one house....

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@cayimby

2 months

We need to build more homes.

Adam Shapiro

@ah_shapiro

2 months

Excess inflation is now almost entirely driven by housing (ie, rent)

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@cayimby

8 months

[BILL ALERT] #SB423 by @Scott_Wiener has made it out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee! SB 423 extends the provisions of SB 35, and expands them to encourage mixed-income housing developments. Learn more:

SB 423 — Extend SB 35 - California YIMBY

SB 423 extends the provisions of SB 35, and expands them to encourage mixed-income housing developments. SB 35, which is scheduled to sunset in 2026, was signed into law in 2017 and has produced...

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@cayimby

7 months

In places with lots of new housing, older apartments are getting cheaper. In places with very little new housing, all apartments are getting more expensive and rents on the cheapest, oldest apartments are rising the fastest. New housing supply lowers prices for everyone.

Jay Parsons

@jayparsons

7 months

Here's, for me, the biggest surprise turn of the U.S. apartment sector in 2023: Class B apartments have been more impacted by supply than even Class A. In high-supply submarkets, Class B rents are down more than 2x Class A. Yet in no-supply submarkets, they're equals. I was…

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@cayimby

8 months

[BILL ALERT] ACA 1, which would lower the threshold to approve public funding for affordable housing from 2/3 to 55%, has passed the Senate and is headed to the ballot!

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@cayimby

2 years

Exciting news!!! The Assembly passes SB 118, which will overturn the court decision blocking higher enrollment at UC Berkeley, 69-0!!! Headed back to the Senate, which is going to consider AB 168, a paired bill, today as well. CEQA reform and students overcoming NIMBYs!

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