California YIMBY

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 26, 2024 at 20:21 UTC

Introducing the Metropolitan Abundance Project, a national policy center brought to you by @cayimby.bsky.social www.metroabundance.org/hello-were-t...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 12, 2024 at 15:14 UTC

"Broadly-applied upzoning that allows more compact housing types in multimodal neighborhoods, with complementary policies such as reducing parking minimums, can increase housing supply, drive down prices, and increase overall affordability."

www.planetizen.com/news/2023/12...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 24, 2024 at 05:12 UTC

We have a whole group of people headed out including @maxdubler.com @resnikoff.bsky.social, @hanlon.bsky.social, and others.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 05, 2023 at 20:55 UTC

When other NIMBY tactics fail, "historic" status is regularly used as a way to block new housing. This article collects some truly egregious examples, like the time Berkeley declared a surface parking lot historic because it might have contained buried Native American artifacts.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 04, 2023 at 19:25 UTC

Wealthy single-family neighborhoods where houses cost millions of dollars are abusing historic preservation to exempt themselves from state laws that require them to allow lower-cost housing. www.eastbaytimes.com/2023/12/03/i...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 04, 2023 at 19:11 UTC

Starting in 2024, San Francisco's progress toward meeting its housing production targets will be under heightened state scrutiny, thanks to SB 423.

If they fall behind, zoning-compliant housing projects that include affordable housing will be permitted by-right. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 01, 2023 at 18:51 UTC

If you missed our webinar with Chris Elmendorf on implementing AB 1633, you can watch it on our website: cayimby.org/news-events/...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 30, 2023 at 19:49 UTC

California's public higher education system is the state's crown jewel, but a shortage of housing both on campus and in surrounding communities is putting college out of reach for too many young people. We need to build more homes on and near campuses.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 30, 2023 at 19:27 UTC

People think the economy is bad because high housing costs are eating up all their income gains.

YIMBYism is popular because people understand that building more homes will make housing more affordable.

This isn't complicated!

www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 29, 2023 at 19:57 UTC

All over the country, YIMBYs are on the march. California YIMBY research director @mnolangray.bsky.social breaks down the year in pro-housing legislation in Bloomberg CityLab: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 28, 2023 at 20:12 UTC

San Francisco's long era of dysfunctional housing policy is finally coming to an end as state-level policy requires the Board of Supervisors to get rid of the red tape and political obstruction that stall housing in the city or risk losing state housing and transit funding *and* the builders remedy.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 27, 2023 at 17:46 UTC

"The fundamental issue is that the country does not have enough homes where people want them, a consequence of a decade-plus of underbuilding after the Great Recession... The shortage has driven up costs for buyers and renters alike."

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 27, 2023 at 17:23 UTC

Thanks to high housing costs that result from decades of under-building homes, 35% of Los Angeles area Millennials and 25% of Bay Area Millennials live with their parents, compared to only 20% nationwide.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 27, 2023 at 17:16 UTC

ICYMI: the Assembly committee speakerships were announced right before the holiday weekend, and YIMBY allies are in many key positions.

calmatters.org/politics/cap...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 27, 2023 at 17:10 UTC

California cities have spent decades making housing for cars cheap and plentiful while making housing for people scarce and expensive. We shouldn't be surprised to see people on the margins, like college students with limited housing budgets, choosing to live in their vehicles.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 22, 2023 at 21:47 UTC

“By elevating aggressively pro-housing members and demoting those who are less so, Rivas seems to be laying the institutional groundwork for an aggressively pro-housing legislature next year.”

calmatters.org/politics/cap...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 22, 2023 at 19:38 UTC

This Boston Globe piece is a great look at how California's statewide ADU reforms have helped add less expensive infill housing to single family zoned neighborhoods. apps.bostonglobe.com/2023/10/spec...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 22, 2023 at 19:31 UTC

"There is simply no way California is going to create the next generation of homeowners or roll back our mounting homelessness crisis unless every part of the state builds its fair share — especially our high-cost coastal areas." - @mnolangray.bsky.social on our Housing Underproduction Report

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 22, 2023 at 02:35 UTC

State Assembly committee assignments are out! We have them collected on our blog: cayimby.org/news-events/...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 21, 2023 at 22:52 UTC

California housing policy is pricing young people and the middle class out of the state entirely. It doesn't have to be like this. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/comm...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 20, 2023 at 21:02 UTC

The housing shortage is making it harder for people to move to economic opportunity. The solution is to build more homes where people want to live.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 20, 2023 at 20:41 UTC

"If environmental groups are going to achieve environmental objectives, they need to check their lawyers and balance feelings with clear thinking." - Chris Elmendorf on how major environmental groups misjudged housing at the California state legislature this year.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 17, 2023 at 20:06 UTC

“Subsidizing current prices at a wide scale will only increase demand further, worsening the imbalance with supply. Suppressing demand isn’t an attractive option either. So, that leaves us with the need to increase housing supply.”

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 17, 2023 at 20:05 UTC

The historic preservationist NIMBY 2 step: 1. Design your neighborhood to exclude anyone who cannot afford a detached house on a large lot. 2. When overt exclusion goes out of fashion, claim that you can't build apartments in the neighborhood without damaging its unique historic character.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 14, 2023 at 20:58 UTC

The bottom line: while it is important to protect significant heritage buildings, overly-broad historic preservation rules are easily weaponized to block badly needed infill housing. We'll need to tighten them up as NIMBYs lose access to their old tools, like zoning and CEQA.

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 14, 2023 at 20:58 UTC

Pasadena tried to exempt fuzzily-defined “landmark districts” from SB 9, prompting a crackdown from state regulators. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 14, 2023 at 20:57 UTC

Back up in SF, activists sued to block the redevelopment of an “historic” laundromat as a mixed-use building with 75 homes a block from a BART station, delaying the project by 5 years. missionlocal.org/2019/02/how-...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 14, 2023 at 20:57 UTC

Returning to Los Angeles, historic preservationists tried to landmark the Taix French Restaurant building to block redevelopment of the crumbling plywood structure and its acre of surface parking into 170 homes and a new restaurant space. la.urbanize.city/post/echo-pa...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 14, 2023 at 20:57 UTC

In an attempt to block SB 9 development, Palo Alto completely changed the process of nominating properties to its historic registry. In the past, property owners had to initiate the listing process. Now, the city can list properties over homeowners’ objections. paloaltoonline.com/news/2022/03...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 14, 2023 at 20:56 UTC

(Another LA gas station was successfully nominated earlier this year.) ktla.com/news/local-n...

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California YIMBY @cayimby.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 14, 2023 at 20:56 UTC

In Los Angeles, an old gas station that had long since been stripped of its most historic features was nominated as an historic cultural monument to delay apartment development on its site. la.curbed.com/2018/6/7/174...

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