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…
Re-opening the Golden Door
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother…
California YIMBY Statement on the Passage of Senate Bill 10
“Help is on the way for California’s middle-class families” SACRAMENTO – Today California YIMBY CEO Brian Hanlon released the following statement regarding the final passage of Senate Bill 10 through the state legislature: “California’s middle-class workers and families have long…
California YIMBY Celebrates the Passage of Senate Bill 9
“We just took a giant leap toward more affordable home ownership” SACRAMENTO – Today California YIMBY CEO Brian Hanlon released the following statement regarding the passage of Senate Bills 9 in the State Assembly: “With the passage of SB 9…
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…
VIDEO: Let’s build affordable housing for everyone
What do we mean when we say “affordable housing”? For most Californians, it means housing they can afford, based on their salary. And for lower-income Californians, it means subsidized housing that keeps them securely housed in homes that don’t…
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,…
Harvard’s State of the Housing Crisis
In a new report on the state of housing in the U.S., the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University finds that inequality and housing insecurity have been exacerbated under the COVID-19 pandemic, and urges government officials to step…