USC Study Highlights Need for Reforms in Housing, Wage Equity, Affordable Daycare Demographic Comprises 30% of State Population Download full report Watch the livestream of release event at https://www.facebook.com/pg/cayimby/posts Sacramento, CA – California’s ongoing housing crisis is exacting an especially…
YIMBY Housing Champions 2019
Resources for those impacted by the wildfires
Across California, wildfires have been ravaging our communities — displacing our friends and neighbors, destroying dozens of homes, and filling the air with acrid smoke. We all know someone who’s been impacted (some of our staff are hosting evacuees from…
“I was evicted. I lost everything.”— Barbara’s Story
“When my mother passed away suddenly in 2009, I moved back to Sacramento to take care of my disabled father for the next three years. During that time, I lived practically rent-free and was fortunate enough to create an emergency…
The Land of the Free? Well, Maybe If You Own Land
“Homeowners are vastly overrepresented among local elected officials across cities of all sizes.” A new working paper from political scientists at Boston University, finds a dramatic underrepresentation of renters at all levels of government in the United States. This has…
We Belong Together: Housing Supply and Affordability Make Not-So-Strange Bedfellows
Who’s gonna take your place? There ain’t nobody better Oh baby baby, we belong together —Mariah Carey, “We Belong Together” (2005) Can we shave 25% off housing costs in Los Angeles? A new study from the University of Pennsylvania…
Yes, the Bay Area is Still Segregated
Fifty years since Congress passed the Fair Housing Act, one might infer that the San Francisco Bay Area is still a deeply segregated region. And you’d be correct. In a new series of research briefs, Stephen Menendian and Samir Gambhir…
League of Women Voters of California Endorses SB 50 – The More Homes Act
“Confronting the Legacy of Exclusion” — Bill to Expand Housing Near Jobs, Transit, Services Gains Momentum in Sacramento Sacramento, CA – California YIMBY today announced that the League of Women Voters of California has endorsed Senate Bill 50, the More…
Thank Governor Newsom & YIMBY Legislators
Hello YIMBYs! There’s been a lot to celebrate this week! With the Governor’s signature on AB 68, AB 881, AB 1482, SB 13, and SB 330, California becomes the first state in the nation to couple robust rent caps and…
Governor Newsom Signs Package of Historic Housing Legislation
Protection for Tenants, End of Single-Family Zoning, and Guardrails Against NIMBYism Next on the Agenda: Ending the Housing Shortage Sacramento, CA – California YIMBY today celebrated the signing into law of a historic package of housing legislation this week by…