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Vote ‘yes’ on Prop. 15 to save vital CA social programs

Read the full article here >>> The revenue from this measure is expected to raise roughly $12 billion a year, 40% of which would go directly to schools and community colleges. The rest would go to county and municipal governments.…

The Planet is Begging Us to Drive Less

Climate disasters are mounting across the Golden State. While wildfires are currently raging from north to south, our neighbors are also contending with worsening heat waves and floods — and unless we act urgently, things will only get hotter in…

Progressive Transfer Taxes Can Help Fix Housing Inequality

Shane Phillips of UCLA’s Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies has a bold new proposal to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for affordable housing in Los Angeles by taxing real property sales. Key to this proposal is a formula…

Inventing Facts to Support NIMBYism: Academics Called Out for Unethical Research in Urban Studies

As the old saying goes, when you’re stuck in a deep hole, stop digging. This would be sound advice for Andres Rodrigues-Pose and Michael Storper, geographers at the London School of Economics and UCLA respectively, who recently wrote a bizarre…

A failure of leadership derailed housing reform in 2020

On Monday, we were on the cusp of passing SB 1120 — a bill which would have made it legal to build duplexes on single-family properties throughout the state. Despite vigorous opposition from affluent homeowners in exclusive communities, SB 1120…

California YIMBY Statement on Failure of Housing Production Package

“The Legislature has failed the people of California” Today California YIMBY co-founder and CEO Brian Hanlon released the following statement regarding the failure of the California Legislature to advance most major housing production bills during the current session: “With its…