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Time is Money, and Money is Housing: Approvals Done (By)-Right

The results are in: The City of Los Angeles’ Transit Oriented Communities (TOC) program of permitting new housing “by-right” has helped build more below-market rate affordable housing, faster, than housing proposals in the city that are still subject to discretionary…

Where’s the Missing Middle? Quadrupling Down on Duplexes

A new policy brief from Garcia et al (2022) at UC Berkeley’s Terner Center for Housing Innovation explores “Unlocking the Potential for Missing Middle Housing.” This qualitative study identifies important barriers to building more affordable, smaller-scale, multifamily housing for middle-income…

Yes, Ontario Actually Has A Housing Shortage

Back in October, former UC Berkeley professor Karen Chapple and researcher Cherise Burda published an article in The Toronto Star questioning whether additional housing production would ease the acute housing affordability crisis. Even stranger, the article questioned whether the province…

Large Lots, Segregated Cities

A new Job Market Paper by Tianfang Cui at the University of Pennsylvania studies the impact of exclusionary zoning through one specific and under-examined variable: minimum lot sizes. Key takeaways: “From 1940–1970, the rise in central city Black composition in…

When 1 + 1 = Zero: How NIMBYism Fosters Housing Skepticism

While research has shown that new homebuilding can bring an immediate benefit to local housing affordability, a new survey study by University of California scholars Clayton Nall, Chris Elmendorf, and California YIMBY alumni Stan Oklobdzija finds that people tend to…

Press Conference: Launch of California YIMBY’s Homelessness Report

Watch our press conference from December 6, 2022 about our new report, “Housing Abundance as a Condition for Ending Homelessness: Lessons from Houston, Texas.” Featured are California YIMBY Policy Director and report author Ned Resnikoff, and Communications Director Matthew Lewis.…

New Report Highlights Solutions to Homelessness Crisis

“Housing First” Policies Need Better Coordination, Funding, Enforcement “Homelessness is primarily the result of high housing costs” SACRAMENTO – Today, California YIMBY released a new report that outlines steps the State of California should take to end homelessness by reducing…

The Model Says: “All of the above”

The UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation has released a new Housing Policy Dashboard that enables researchers and policymakers to simulate various policy scenarios for increasing California’s housing supply. Accompanied with a paper by Casey et al (2022) that…