YIMBY Lobby Day
A collaborative effort of the YIMBY movement designed to amplify our voices in the State Capitol.
2025 Priority Bill List
Building the path to more livable, walkable, affordable communities.
Senate Bills
SB 79 (Wiener) More Homes Near Transit
Makes it legal to build more multi-family housing near transit, including in areas currently zoned only for single-family homes, by allowing upzoning and rezoning near qualifying rail stations and rapid bus lines. It will help address housing affordability by increasing the supply of homes in these areas, while also bolstering transit use – and the funding stability of public transportation systems.
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SB 9 (Arreguín) Removing Local Barriers to ADUs
Ensures that local laws regarding the construction of accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are consistent with state law, and provides a pathway to nullify illegal, local barriers to ADUs.
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SB 607 (Wiener) The Fast and Focused CEQA Act
Refocuses the scope of environmental analysis required by the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) to the issues we know to be truly environmentally harmful.
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SB 543 (McNerney) Low-Cost Housing
Clarifies existing state laws for ADUs and JADUs to codify guidance issued by the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD)
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AB 6 (Ward) Building Standards
Creates a state working group to study allowing developments between three and ten units to be built using simpler, more streamlined building code requirements. AB 6 will also require HCD to analyze the cost pressures created by current and future building code requirements, with the goal of reducing the costs of construction for new housing.
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AB 609 (Wicks) Environmentally Beneficial Housing
Ends the abuse of CEQA to block environmentally-friendly housing by creating clear, objective criteria for exempting qualifying housing projects in existing urban areas from environmental review.
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AB 595 (Carrillo) Building Homeownership For All
Creates more affordable homeownership opportunities for working families and communities of color by providing tax credits for the construction of for-sale homes affordable to Californians who earn low to moderate incomes.
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AB 1061 (Quirk-Silva) Duplexes: Historic Districts
Makes it easier to increase the number of homes – including duplexes – in single-family neighborhoods by allowing the California HOME Act (SB 9, Atkins 2021) to be used in historic districts, ending the abuse of historic preservation measures as a tool to block more homes.
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AB 1308 (Hoover) Third Part Inspections
Helps bring new homes to market faster by allowing home builders to hire a licensed and certified third-party inspector to complete final inspections if the local government cannot complete inspections of permitted work within 30 days.
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