Kayla Acosta-Galvan

Do Investors Drive Up Housing Costs? Dutch Researchers say, “Nee.”

In order to promote homeownership and prevent investment companies from purchasing owner-occupied homes, the Netherlands enacted a law in 2022 that allows municipalities to ban investors from purchasing properties under a certain price cap if they had the intention of…

Clash of the Titans: When Housing and Environment Super-Statutes Collide

A newly published law review article by UC Davis’s Chris Elmendorf and attorney Tim Duncheon investigates the slow-motion collision between two statutes at the center of California’s housing crisis: the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the state’s Housing Accountability…

Episode 11

In this episode, California YIMBY Research Director M. Nolan Gray chats with Sarah Anzia.

Episode 10

In this episode, California YIMBY Research Director M. Nolan Gray and Sarah Karlinsky senior advisor at SPUR, chat with Emily Jacobson.

California YIMBY Congratulates Assemblymember Robert Rivas (Salinas) on Inauguration as Assembly Speaker

Pro-Housing Champion Has Led on Vital Affordability Reforms SACRAMENTO – Today, California YIMBY issued the following statement on the inauguration of Assemblymember Robert Rivas (Salinas) as the 71st Speaker of the California State Assembly: “Robert Rivas has been a powerful champion…