“It’s just about the most radical attack on California’s affordability crisis you could imagine. Almost everyone agrees California needs more housing. The state is home ...

“Too often, the areas around transit lines and stops are zoned at very low densities, even limiting housing to single family homes around major transit ...

“We have a severe housing shortage and part of the problem is that core areas with transit access don’t allow much housing,” Sen. Scott Wiener, ...

BERKELEY, Calif. — The house at 1310 Haskell Street does not look worthy of a bitter neighborhood war. The roof is rotting, the paint is ...

We are now entering the age of the YIMBY. Prefaced with a “Yes, ” it’s a compelling counterargument that the only way to keep the housing shortage from crippling coming generations is by doing a much better job of building it in nearly every community, and by clearing away obstacles that keep us from doing so. 

California’s unprecedented housing crisis has ushered a new power player onto the scene with a supply-and-demand message so succinct it could fit on a T-shirt: Build more homes.

More than four in 10 California adults are seriously considering moving away from their part of the state because of the cost of housing, with the highest proportion in the coastal counties and the lowest in the state’s interior.

A backlash against high rents and home prices in Los Angeles has produced a movement that is so open to new development that many call themselves YIMBYs — as in “Yes in My Backyard.”

The residents, developers say, are NIMBYs — happy to see new shopping centers, apartment blocks and housing tracts, so long as they’re “not in my backyard.”

Now, there’s a new player in this well-worn battleground: YIMBYs.

Few public policy issues can match urban housing politics for its incendiary combination of passion and misconception. To wit: the confounding idea that relaxing regulations ...