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The HomeWork: April 28, 2020

Welcome to the April 28, 2020 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.   The Legislature continues to…

Housing and Exclusion in Massachusetts

Why is housing more expensive in some suburban enclaves than city centers, and why isn’t subsidized housing equitably distributed? In California, we’ve been tackling these questions for years, but there is much to be learned from other states. In Massachusetts,…

Trump Seeks a Return of Discriminatory Lending Practices

Like so many of the horrors we’ve faced under the Trump Administration, yet another relic of 20th Century segregation is once again rearing its ugly head: Redlining. Trump officials have proposed a change in an obscure but important banking law…

Assemblymember Robert Rivas Event Information

Assemblymember Robert Rivas represents the Salinas Valley, sometimes called the Salad Bowl of America. As someone who has grown up in farmworker housing, he understands the need to address the severe shortage of quality and affordable housing for farmworker families.…

How to Beat the High Cost of Construction

Hot off the presses from our friends at UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation comes another installment of its “Cost of Building Housing Research” Series. Amid global pandemic and economic crisis, it may be difficult to see why construction…