Kayla Acosta-Galvan

Episode 17

Stan Oklobdzija on YIMBY Politics Welcome to Abundance, a new California YIMBY podcast where we chat with the academics, researchers, and practicioners who inspire and inform our work. Welcome back to Abundance! In this episode, we chat with Stan Oklobdzija.…

Episode 16

This week, Nolan Gray chats with Ben Raderstorf. Ben is vice president of House Sacramento, an all volunteer grassroots pro-housing group in the California Capital region.

Paying the Ultimate Price for Housing: The Case for Affordability

Housing has long been studied as a social determinant of health, but past studies have mostly looked at housing quality (for example, lead paint, indoor air pollution) and neighborhood effects (such as segregation) – with less attention paid to rent…

Smaller Lots, Smaller Prices: Evidence from Houston

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. Most of these efforts have focused on adjusting regulations such as…

New Report Highlights Success of Policies Legalizing More Homes

Explore the success of California’s streamlined ADU legislation with the latest report from the California YIMBY Education Fund.

California YIMBY Announces Francesc Martí to Join as Senior Director of Strategy and Government Affairs

Former Director of Policy at California Housing Finance Agency to Lead California YIMBY Legislative Team in Sacramento

Movin’ On Up: How Costly New Homes Create Affordable Old Homes

In housing policy, a common theory of how to provide the maximum number of affordable homes to the greatest number of people is known as “filtering:” the process through which aging homes depreciate, and become less costly as higher-income residents…