California YIMBY scores big hits on Chris Hayes, The Nation, and more!
This week, California YIMBY staff scored some major press hits for the pro-housing movement. First, our new Policy Director Ned Resnikoff joined MSNBC’s Chris Hayes for a conversation about homelessness and the need for more housing. In this hour-long conversation,…
Statement from Brian Hanlon, CEO of California YIMBY, on the failure of the NIMBY ballot initiative
For Immediate Release ContactMelanie SlocumMelanie.Slocum@deweysquare.com951-205-1739 Sacramento, Calif. – Today California YIMBY CEO Brian Hanlon released the following statement in response to the failure of the Brand-Huang-Mendoza “Tripartisan Land Use Initiative” to qualify for the November ballot: “An overwhelming majority of Californians…
What’s the Value of “Value Capture”?
A new essay by UCLA’s Michael Manville delivers a strong critique of the method many cities use to extract fees and concessions in exchange for allowing new homes to be built. Known as “value capture,” these fees are sold as…
Does Homeownership Influence Attitudes Toward Housing? Survey Says … Probably?
A new Michael Manville (2021) paper asks: how can coastal liberals reconcile their egalitarian values with exclusionary land-use policies that exacerbate inequality? California survey data suggests that homeownership can give liberals a NIMBY streak. Key takeaways: Self-identified liberal homeowners in…
How Transit Makes Housing More Affordable
A new study by Matan Singer at the University of Michigan covering twenty-seven metropolitan regions shows how proximity to transit can reduce housing cost burdens for low-income households by reducing transportation costs. While public transit is substantially less expensive than…
Solving the “Missing Middle” with Gentle Density: It’s Gentle
Senate Bill 9 has received a fair bit of fanfare for its relatively minor proposition: allowing lot splits and duplexes to be permitted on properties currently zoned for only one home. UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation has a…
President Biden’s Treasury Department Says: YIMBY
A recent article by Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo underscores a range of key findings for the Biden Administration’s housing policy efforts. Key takeaways: Affordable housing is central to providing economic opportunity, and the lack of it is…
Exclusionary Zoning and Exclusionary Schools: Two Sides of Same Coin?
A new paper by Jacob Krimmel at the University of Pennsylvania explores a novel connection between residential zoning and the broader landscape of segregation in the United States: school funding formulae. Key takeaways: When municipal governments in California lost control…
The Zoning Tax: $400,000, House Not Included
A new working paper from Gyourko and Krimmel (2021) analyzes new data on single-family housing construction and land use regulations, and finds that cities with restrictive zoning are in effect charging a “zoning tax”— and in some cases in California,…