by Kayla Acosta-Galvan | Aug 14, 2023 | Blog, The HomeWork
Welcome to the August 14, 2023 Main edition of The Homework, the official newsletter of California YIMBY — legislative updates, news clips, housing research and analysis, and the latest writings from the California YIMBY team. Summer recess is coming to an end...
by Kayla Acosta-Galvan | Aug 10, 2023 | Blog
The Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University recently released its annual “State of the Nation’s Housing” report. The report provides a detailed summary of trends in the United States’ housing and rental markets. Construction of multifamily housing has...
by Kayla Acosta-Galvan | Aug 10, 2023 | Blog
In another example of how zoning and housing might explain everything, exclusionary zoning policies can be linked to disparities in educational outcomes. A new report from the Century Foundation compares two towns in Westchester County, New York to examine how...
by Kayla Acosta-Galvan | Jul 26, 2023 | Blog, The HomeWork
Welcome to the July 26, 2023 Main edition of The Homework, the official newsletter of California YIMBY — legislative updates, news clips, housing research and analysis, and the latest writings from the California YIMBY team. We are in the midst of Legislative...
by Kayla Acosta-Galvan | Jul 25, 2023 | Blog
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...
by Kayla Acosta-Galvan | Jul 25, 2023 | Blog
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...