Muhammad Alameldin

The rise in ADU permit applications since these changes points to pent-up demand. More than 10,000 permits have been filed in Los Angeles since 2017, compared to just a few hundred each year before the new regulations, according to the…

California YIMBY, a group that advocates for more housing construction, celebrated the “de facto elimination of single-family zoning throughout the state.” “We now have more tools in the toolkit to help cities overcome NIMBYism and allow the construction of more…

Brian Hanlon, president of California YIMBY, was surprised when Sanders made his 2016 endorsements. “My first reaction was, does Bernie understand the local politics here?” he says. “He was supporting people who were identified as progressive, but many of these…

“Two factors trigger all this (pollution), and they feed on each other,” said Matthew Lewis, an environmental consultant and spokesman for the pro-housing group California YIMBY. “One is sport utility vehicles,” he said, noting that state tailpipe standards allow larger…

“The big news is that we have effectively ended single-family zoning in California,” says Matthew Lewis, director of communications for California YIMBY, an advocacy group that sponsored two of the three ADU bills. … Two other bills, AB 881 (also…

Read the full article … “With the cost of rent causing some people to live in cars or commute for hours to work, some cities have decided on a surprising solution: doing away with single-family zoning, long a component of…

Read the full article … “In essence, they say the overall mindset needs to change from NIMBY (not in my backyard) to YIMBY (yes in my backyard) … Simply put, the solution is more housing. While markets are ruled by…