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How Remote Work Drove Pandemic Housing Demand – and Prices

A new working paper by Mondragon & Wieland (2022) at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) suggests that the shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic accounted for at least half of the price increases in housing nationwide.…

Report: Housing Justice is Essential for Reparations

California’s Reparations Task Force was established in 2021 to provide a policy framework for providing reparations for slavery to African-Americans. Their Interim Report, released in June 2022, covers significant aspects of housing opportunity and segregation, with proposals to begin redressing…

California YIMBY Comment on CARB 2022 Scoping Plan

California YIMBY submitted the following comments regarding the California Air Resource Board’s Draft 2022 Scoping Plan Update. We commend CARB’s analysis and encourage the Air Board to use existing SB 32 authority to preempt local restrictions at inextricable odds with…

Barriers to Prosperity: How Housing Bans Harm California’s Middle-Income Households

Middle-income households in California face a critical dearth of housing options, increasingly squeezed by the rising costs of housing on the private market and limited resources from the public sector. A new study by Garcia et al. (2022) at the…

The State of Hispanic Homeownership

The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) recently released the 2021 edition of their annual report, “The State of Hispanic Homeownership.” This report highlights important disparities in access to wealth creation opportunities through homeownership for Hispanic Americans. Key…

California YIMBY Celebrates Assembly Passage of AB 2097

Affordable Housing Reform Eliminates Expensive Parking Mandates; Advances Climate, Clean Air Goals “We need affordable housing for people, not more expensive parking for cars” SACRAMENTO – Today, the California State Assembly voted to approve AB 2097, state legislation authored by…

Project Homekey: A Model for Addressing Homelessness?

California’s Project Homekey, a new initiative by Governor Newsom to acquire and retrofit hotels for permanent supportive housing, was hailed as a transformative solution to homelessness when it was launched in mid-2020. A new report by UC Berkeley’s Terner Center…