California YIMBY @cayimby
California YIMBY is a statewide advocacy organization working to pass legislation to end CA’s housing shortage by empowering and growing the YIMBY movement. cayimby.org California Joined July 2017-
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Working Group: More Entry-Level Homes Could Help Solve Housing Crisis "Discussions focused on how the California housing crisis affects Black and Brown communities and explored ways to provide low-income families and individuals with affordable housing." sacobserver.com/2024/04/workin…
"Other key aspects included the impacts of exclusionary single-family zoning on communities of color, policies to prioritize to create more equitable housing choices, and the importance of creating more housing options to drive economic mobility." sacobserver.com/2024/04/workin…
In this episode of Abundance, the California YIMBY podcast, @resnikoff chats with @sahnicboom about public engagement, exclusionary zoning, and civil service reform. cayimby.org/news-events/ab…
Research shows that the Coastal Commission's restrictions on housing have raised home prices by at least 20% and reduced population density within the coastal zone, and that prices within the coastal zone have risen faster than prices outside of it. cayimby.org/blog/how-an-oi…
Great new research from our Metropolitan Abundance Project:
To make housing broadly affordable, we should just build a lot of homes in the places people want to live. This really isn’t that complicated.
To make housing broadly affordable, we should just build a lot of homes in the places people want to live. This really isn’t that complicated.
"SB 1077, which would have made it easier to build backyard cottages on existing residential lots [in urban areas of] the coast, was gutted." Saying "no" to the most reasonable reasonable reforms is a good way to make legislators stop listening to you. politico.com/newsletters/ca…
California's *only* problem is that it's too hard to build stuff. Too hard to build new housing. Too hard to build green energy. Too hard to build high-speed rail. Too hard because it requires too many approvals, too many community meetings, too many chances for NIMBYs to say no.
California's *only* problem is that it's too hard to build stuff. Too hard to build new housing. Too hard to build green energy. Too hard to build high-speed rail. Too hard because it requires too many approvals, too many community meetings, too many chances for NIMBYs to say no.
Since when is it the Coastal Commission's job to ensure affordable housing, or to decide which housing is good and bad, especially outside of environmental concerns? We have other agencies for that — people who actually have expertise in the field.
Since when is it the Coastal Commission's job to ensure affordable housing, or to decide which housing is good and bad, especially outside of environmental concerns? We have other agencies for that — people who actually have expertise in the field.
By far most successful affordable housing strategy in history has been allowing the maximum possible amount of market-rate housing.
Exclusionary zoning looks different in different places; but the goal is almost always the same: keeping poor people, and especially poor families, out of wealthy, high-opportunity areas. @amydain masterfully documents how this worked in Boston's suburbs. cayimby.org/blog/exclusion…
Exclusionary zoning creates segregated communities that limit the educational opportunities available to low-income children. cayimby.org/blog/a-tale-of…
Homebuilding - it works!
Before: parking lot After: 131 below-market-rate homes, childcare center, youth art program, bike-share, café 1/2
What do we mean when we talk about "affordable housing"? Sometimes people get confused about this. We made this video 3 years ago to explain why saying "yes" to more homes helps solve the affordability crisis for people at all income levels.
Giving busybody neighbors the right to appeal even zoning-compliant renovation plans is an absurd waste of time, money, and resources. As @Scott_Wiener says, basic good governance requires setting clear rules for what you're allowed to do, then impartially following those rules.
Giving busybody neighbors the right to appeal even zoning-compliant renovation plans is an absurd waste of time, money, and resources. As @Scott_Wiener says, basic good governance requires setting clear rules for what you're allowed to do, then impartially following those rules.
We need to end discretionary permitting of housing for many reasons, not the least of which being that it seems to turn otherwise well-adjusted people into sociopaths.
Parking is a valuable amenity that many people want; but not everyone needs it. That's why we worked with @LauraFriedmanCA to pass AB 2097 (2022), which ends costly, environmentally-damaging parking mandates near public transit. cayimby.org/legislation/ab…
Parking is a valuable amenity that many people want; but not everyone needs it. That's why we worked with @LauraFriedmanCA to pass AB 2097 (2022), which ends costly, environmentally-damaging parking mandates near public transit. cayimby.org/legislation/ab…
Happy Earth Day! Housing policy is climate policy, and recent analysis from @RockyMtnInst found that enacting state-level land use reform to encourage compact development can reduce annual US pollution by 70 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2033. rmi.org/why-state-land…
Senator Scott Wiener @Scott_Wiener
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Where is the most beautiful place you’ve ever been to?
Challenge: write below how many back & forths with me it takes before this left-NIMBY competely beclowns himself. Then click into the thread and see if you were right!
Non-primary demand for existing dwellings ********
It's a day ending in Y, so it must be time for an article that argues "YIMBY will improve things but isn't a panacea" and "what we really need is public housing" (which YIMBYs support).
Constructive criticism is good but it's genuinely baffling when you read an article on the Australian YIMBY movement that fundamentally ignores all our advocacy to make up hypothetical positions we don't hold! abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…
the bureaucrat who says “If you take the commission’s regulatory oversight away, you’re not going to get the kind of housing that California needs” has worked for nearly 25 years to guarantee that California doesn't get any of the housing it needs politico.com/newsletters/ca…
“Vehicular cyclists” are the dumbest people in the whole cosmology of urban policy fights and it’s not close.
reading this book rn. the shit forrester says about "utility cycling" is crazier than anything I've seen on twitter his "typical" cycle commute is 40 minutes and says enjoyment is higher on the street than urban bike paths, because ppl get more "physical condition" on the road
The UK has the worst housing crisis in the Anglosphere.
Just a reminder the UK does not have a housing crisis. It has a wage crisis. UK wages have been flat for 15 years meanwhile US fast food workers are on $100k.
Trigger warning⚠️ Do not read this if you're not ready to discover the extent to which unregulated, fully commodified new market rate apartments can immediately serve low-income 60% AMI households at LIHTC rents
INTERACTIVE MAP & RESEARCH: How much of your city's new housing is priced affordable to low-income families? Probably more than you think! Glad to be in @metroabundance: metroabundance.org/how-inclusiona…
California's *only* problem is that it's too hard to build stuff. Too hard to build new housing. Too hard to build green energy. Too hard to build high-speed rail. Too hard because it requires too many approvals, too many community meetings, too many chances for NIMBYs to say no.
Texas is booming. They’re creating jobs, increasing wages, building green energy, and keeping housing prices in check. All things that California claims to want. Yet we continue to implement policy that achieves the opposite.
How much of this is city versus state legislation? SB330 which requires 1 for 1 replacement statewide (and is stronger than LA policies) passed in 2019 but the article doesn’t mention it at all.
10,000 new rent controlled units in Los Angeles built since 2007 thanks to city legislation that requires tear downs of old rent controlled buildings to cover new construction latimes.com/california/sto…
Oakland is completely built out. There’s no more room for housing.
We need more legislation to support middle income earners related to housing. This demographic most likely will not receive housing subsidies but they're the biggest demographic in the state. And they're being left behind.
The California Coastal Commission is the NIMBY deep state.
Why in the hell has a state agency @TheCACoast hired lobbyists to influence legislature and PR pros to fight them?! they have it backwards - it’s the LEGISLATURE that sets policy. Their job to implement. Not other way around. Bureaucracy out of control politico.com/newsletters/ca…
I don’t care what anyone thinks I’ll say it A bear is not a great shape for a honey container
California has a $73B budget deficit and will soon face dramatic cuts to key programs for health, education, and public safety yet we're letting @TheCACoast hire lobbyists and a spokesperson for the sole purpose of blocking more housing. How is this a good use of our resources???
"Louis Mirante, vp of public policy at the Bay Area Council, a pro-business advocacy group, has helped lead the effort to curtail the commission’s authority. It arguably hasn’t faced such a challenge since voters approved the Coastal Act of 1972..." politico.com/newsletters/ca…
By far most successful affordable housing strategy in history has been allowing the maximum possible amount of market-rate housing.
INTERACTIVE MAP & RESEARCH: How much of your city's new housing is priced affordable to low-income families? Probably more than you think! Glad to be in @metroabundance: metroabundance.org/how-inclusiona…
The Coastal Commission’s allies say they should block market rate homes. The Commission implies they are pro-housing. But they’re opposing incentives for mixed-income infill buildings and described one with 117 affordable homes as enriching “billionaires and corrupt kleptocrats”
Second, Coastal Staff rotely repeat that the coast does not need more market-rate housing, which is false. They refer to the project above (which would build 117 homes affordable to low income people) as "padding the profit margins of luxury developers". Here's an example:
When I first came to Maryhill 15 years ago I was the only out gay person on the hill. Watching the scene grow to include a wildly diverse group of LGBT downhill skaters has been a real highlight of my time in this community. Ryan Villa shows his pride through Backbreaker.
@PippengerHarlo @cayimby … a tax liability that is larger than the budget of the entire city. That’s not an “extravagant waste,” that’s just the basic financial innumeracy of left NIMBYs.
@PippengerHarlo @cayimby … and a handful of intellectually stunted socialist adult children running around bragging about the “$250 million bond I passed for affordable housing!” and don’t understand that’s only enough tax money for 250 homes when what’s needed is 85,000. IOW, they want to create …
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