Welcome to the May 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. News from Sacramento Sacramento’s…
Minorities hit hard by coronavirus
Read the full article … ‘Lack of health insurance, working in essential jobs and living in multigenerational households all contribute to higher infection rates.’ … Read the full article
The Pandemic Hasn’t Killed California’s Big Housing Plans — But They Have Mutated
Read the full article … “Atkins and Senate Democratic leaders unveiled a suite of compromise legislation aimed at making it easier to build more housing. While no individual bill is as sweeping as SB 50, developers and housing experts say…
Editorial: California’s constituency for a permanent housing shortage is winning
Read the full article … “In a pandemic-postponed effort to pick up the wreckage of the Legislature’s last attempt to grapple with California’s housing shortage, state Senate President Pro Tempore Toni Atkins this week unveiled a package of bills to…
California YIMBY Statement on Passage of AB 3155 from Assembly Housing & Community Development Committee
Sacramento – California YIMBY issued the following statement from President and CEO Brian Hanlon on the passage of AB 3155 out of the Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee: “With the passage of AB 3155 from the Assembly Housing and…
California leased 15,000 hotel rooms to help homeless people. Half now sit empty
Read the full article … “Only about half of the 15,000 hotel and motel rooms that California has leased for mostly homeless people to slow the spread of the coronavirus are now occupied, a review of state records shows.“ ……
California YIMBY Statement on Senate Pro-Tem Housing Package
Sacramento, CA — California YIMBY today released the following statement from President/CEO Brian Hanlon: “The Senate housing production bill package is a step forward in addressing California’s housing shortage. We hope Senate leadership works with their counterparts in the Assembly…
This Is How Hard It Is to Invest in Black Neighborhoods
Read the full article … ‘The story of one investor trying to revitalize a crumbling block in Birmingham, Alabama, shows how little value American institutions place on black properties.’ … Read the full article
Coronavirus reveals the need for a New Deal on housing in California
Read the full article … “These reforms will spark a boom in new housing production, boost the economy, and put construction workers, carpenters, and plumbers back to work.” … Read the full article
Coronavirus Exposes the Inextricable Connection Between Housing and Health
Read the full article … “During this pandemic — in many places — homelessness reforms that were long deemed implausible are happening, if only temporarily. Over the last two months, cities have been showing just what it takes to expand…