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For decades, efforts to restrict new housing in Berkeley and the broader Bay Area have driven up housing costs, pushed out low-income residents, and reinforced… Read More

What distinguished and doomed Senate Bill 827 is that it would have overruled local officials’ use of planning, zoning and other barriers to block new… Read More

Opponents of allowing more dense housing construction associate the solution with gentrification, but this gets the question backwards. Gentrification is the result of artificially constricted… Read More

Just before a committee of California state senators voted on a landmark bill to ramp up housing production by overriding local… Read More

California’s thriving economy continues to be the workhorse of American prosperity. In recent years, our innovative companies and highly-skilled workforce have propelled the Golden State… Read More

California YIMBY Co-Founder Brian Hanlon, who started lobbying for pro-housing bills last year, promises to continue pushing an ambitious housing agenda for California no matter… Read More

“I don’t want us painted as not understanding what the problem is,” Sierra Club California Director Kathryn Phillips says. “We know there’s a housing problem. We… Read More

Little did we know that Senate Bill 827 – Senator Wiener’s legislation to help end the housing shortage – would bring about such an enormous… Read More

California has a housing deficit approaching 4 million homes, and our housing shortage is a huge threat to our state’s diversity, economy, environment, and quality… Read More

Fair housing, social equity, and civil rights experts from around the country support Senate Bill 827, reinforcing the urgency to build more housing near transit-rich… Read More