[VICTORY ALERT] SB 312, which would clean up elements of SB 886 (2022) and allow streamlined approval for environmentally sustainable student housing, has been signed into law by Governor @GavinNewsom! Our statement: cayimby.org/news-events/...

[VICTORY ALERT] SB 937, which allows home builders to delay the payment of local development and impact fees until a certificate of occupancy is issued for their project, has been signed by @GavinNewsom and is now law! Our statement: cayimby.org/news-events/...

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.

A brief history of how we maintain segregation in America. Gen 1️⃣: Mechanisms: racial covenants, racial zoning, Jim Crow, separate but equal, terrorism. Features: explicitly racist; implicitly classist. Starts in 1865; gradually ends in 1917 (Buchanan), 1948 (Shelley), 1955 (Brown)...

It’s true, we’ve been under building for at least 40 years at this point, & what is being constructed is on average increasing in size. Which means that downsizing has become less possible, & homes that would have down cycled to affordable housing remain at inflated prices due to high demand.

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“For decades, thanks to restrictive zoning laws and increasing construction costs, we simply haven’t built enough new housing.” www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/o...

Opinion | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Tina Smith: Our Solution to the Housing Crisis

Instead of treating real estate as a commodity, we can underwrite the construction of millions of permanently affordable homes and apartments.

If you’re tired of exclusionary enclaves like Sausalito weaponizing historic preservation to block housing, use our tool to tell Gavin Newsom to sign AB 2580: actionnetwork.org/letters/sign...

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The "historic" machineshop in Sausalito is now so derelict and dangerous that the federal government has to pay security to make sure nobody wanders in. Sausalito residents got this temporary building on the historic register due to fears that it would be developed. This is not OK.

“For decades, thanks to restrictive zoning laws and increasing construction costs, we simply haven’t built enough new housing.” www.nytimes.com/2024/09/18/o...

Opinion | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Tina Smith: Our Solution to the Housing Crisis

Instead of treating real estate as a commodity, we can underwrite the construction of millions of permanently affordable homes and apartments.

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 – Build A Wider Variety of Homes - California YIMBY

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...

This is a great piece on how code reforms to allow “single stair” buildings could unlock new inexpensive and highly livable housing in San Francisco. openscopestudio.com/single-stair...

Single Stair Buildings for San Francisco: The Key to Building Small Scale Infill Housing - OpenScope Studio

Single stair buildings are a valuable housing type that is common in cities across the world and San Francisco could consider it as well