We've truly made it.
Gen 3️⃣: Mechanisms: discretionary reviews; public hearings; environmental litigation; unfunded affordability mandates; historic districts. Features: reinforces segregationist status quo on superficially progressive basis; privileges those who can "show up." Status: begins in 1960s and 1970s; ongoing.
Gen 2️⃣: Mechanisms: single-family zoning, minimum lot sizes and other cost mandates, suburban secession. Features: explicitly classist; implicitly racist. (Ability to determine what gets built where = ability to determine who can live where.) Status: Ongoing. Beginnings of YIMBY reform.
Last year we passed AB 835, which directed the State Fire Marshal to research and develop standards for “single stairway,” multi-family buildings. cayimby.org/legislation/...
AB 835 will help expand the production of more affordable, family-sized apartments and flats by making it legal to build these types of homes on smaller and unusually-sized properties in our cities. B...
The Olive apartments were one of the buildings I highlighted in my blog post on this scale of infill housing in Minneapolis, which has produced >1000 newly legal units. That post all started with city staff, who were great partners with gathering the data www.metroabundance.org/minneapoliss...
Side by side in Minneapolis, we get to compare the effects of a very modest upzoning with those of stronger changes.
We have been working on this! cayimby.org/legislation/...
AB 835 will help expand the production of more affordable, family-sized apartments and flats by making it legal to build these types of homes on smaller and unusually-sized properties in our cities. B...
Thanks to Assemblymembers Lackey, McCarty, Ta, Grayson, Grayson, Wilson, Rubio, Rodriguez, Davies, Haney, Jones-Sawyer, Flora, Santiago, Pellerin, Jim Patterson, Nguyen, Wendy Carrillo, and Wallis for speaking in support. We hope your colleagues rejoin you on the floor soon.
Special thanks to Asm. Patterson for speaking in support!
