California YIMBY
@cayimby.bsky.social
California YIMBY is a statewide advocacy organization working to pass legislation to end California's housing shortage by empowering and growing the YIMBY movement. Learn more at https://cayimby.org.
“In the past few years we have enshrined the most consequential housing reforms in our state’s history. Just last year alone I was proud to sign 61 housing reform bills, clearing away regulatory thickets and modernizing our environmental review.” - @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social
January 8, 2026 at 7:28 PM
“In the past few years we have enshrined the most consequential housing reforms in our state’s history. Just last year alone I was proud to sign 61 housing reform bills, clearing away regulatory thickets and modernizing our environmental review.” - @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social
We're paying close attention the Select Committee on Housing Construction Innovation, led by @buffywicks.bsky.social, and their efforts to reduce building costs.
Assemblymember Wicks Opens First Hearing of Select Committee on Housing Construction Innovation - Davis Vanguard
Assemblymember Buffy Wicks convened the first hearing of the California Assembly's new Select Committee on Housing Construction Innovation to explore ways to reduce housing costs by modernizing how ho...
davisvanguard.org
January 7, 2026 at 8:55 PM
We're paying close attention the Select Committee on Housing Construction Innovation, led by @buffywicks.bsky.social, and their efforts to reduce building costs.
Solid rundown on many of the new housing laws that just went into effect, including several of our sponsored bills. www.kqed.org/news/1206874...
California Passed Big Housing Bills in 2025. What Does That Mean for Building More Homes? | KQED
California lawmakers made bold moves to reform California’s landmark environmental law and dramatically change how housing is built near transit. As these laws come into effect, what changes for housi...
www.kqed.org
January 7, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Solid rundown on many of the new housing laws that just went into effect, including several of our sponsored bills. www.kqed.org/news/1206874...
In case you missed it, this is a great story about how we got started and the work we do today, centered on our founder @hanlon.bsky.social.
How a former Forest Service employee changed the future of housing in California
Inside the genesis of a YIMBY advocacy organization that just successfully pushed for the passage of revolutionary housing laws that could finally ease California's housing crisis.
www.fastcompany.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:56 AM
In case you missed it, this is a great story about how we got started and the work we do today, centered on our founder @hanlon.bsky.social.
Modernizing construction will be key to ensuring that California gets the homes we need to be an affordable place to live and raise a family. We are excited to see where this goes!
California has made real progress on land use and permitting — but we still aren’t building housing at the scale we need.
One reason: the way we build homes hasn’t kept pace with innovation. That’s what our new Select Committee is focused on.
One reason: the way we build homes hasn’t kept pace with innovation. That’s what our new Select Committee is focused on.
January 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Modernizing construction will be key to ensuring that California gets the homes we need to be an affordable place to live and raise a family. We are excited to see where this goes!
Great interview with our own @mnolangray.bsky.social!
New state law tries to build more apartments near public transportation stops | California Politics 360
A new law in California will try to make it easier for housing developers to build more homes near public transportation stops.
www.kcra.com
December 31, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Great interview with our own @mnolangray.bsky.social!
California YIMBY sends our fond congratulations to Senator Cervantes on her appointment as Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee! We look forward to working with her to make California an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family.
December 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
California YIMBY sends our fond congratulations to Senator Cervantes on her appointment as Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee! We look forward to working with her to make California an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family.
California YIMBY sends our fond congratulations to Senator Durazo on her reappointment as Chair of the Senate Local Government Committee! We look forward to working with her to make California an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family.
December 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
California YIMBY sends our fond congratulations to Senator Durazo on her reappointment as Chair of the Senate Local Government Committee! We look forward to working with her to make California an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family.
California YIMBY sends our fond congratulations to Senator Arreguín on his appointment as Chair of the Senate Housing Committee! We look forward to working with him to make California an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family.
December 24, 2025 at 3:06 AM
California YIMBY sends our fond congratulations to Senator Arreguín on his appointment as Chair of the Senate Housing Committee! We look forward to working with him to make California an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family.
California's construction defect liability system was supposed to protect consumers. But a new report suggests it has become a barrier, preventing middle-income families from buying condos and townhomes in California’s expensive cities:
The Legal Trap That's Making California Condos Unaffordable—And It's Not What You Think - California YIMBY
California’s construction defect liability system (the legal rules that let people sue builders for problems with new buildings) is adding up to $18,300 per unit to the costs of condominiums. What was...
cayimby.org
December 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
California's construction defect liability system was supposed to protect consumers. But a new report suggests it has become a barrier, preventing middle-income families from buying condos and townhomes in California’s expensive cities:
“We have to get past ‘I think it’s ugly,’ and [the project] stops. I want to live in a city where architects can dream. If you don’t let that happen, you end up with lowest-common-denominator buildings.” - @mateosfo.bsky.social on the density bonus project proposal at SF's Marina Safeway.
Actually, SF needs more Miamification — starting in the Marina
Mayor Daniel Lurie slammed a proposed Safeway redevelopment as “just not in line with what we are doing here in San Francisco.” But why is it not in line?
sfstandard.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
“We have to get past ‘I think it’s ugly,’ and [the project] stops. I want to live in a city where architects can dream. If you don’t let that happen, you end up with lowest-common-denominator buildings.” - @mateosfo.bsky.social on the density bonus project proposal at SF's Marina Safeway.
Congratulations to our friends in Illinois for passing major parking reforms!
It’s official! Today, Gov. Pritzker signed the NITA Act, which funds Illinois transit and provides Chicagoland with a central agency to plan, fund, and deliver a world-class transit system. The bill also removes mandatory parking minimums within a half-mile of major transit hubs!
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December 17, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Congratulations to our friends in Illinois for passing major parking reforms!
Portland has kept homeownership attainable for middle-class families by broadly legalizing townhomes on single family lots. While California has made progress on this with SB 684 and 1123, more work remains to be done.
This liberal city sees San Francisco as a role model — for home building failure
While prices for starter homes in San Francisco have surged, Portland has seemingly found the key to produce “missing middle” houses for first-time buyers.
www.sfchronicle.com
December 17, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Portland has kept homeownership attainable for middle-class families by broadly legalizing townhomes on single family lots. While California has made progress on this with SB 684 and 1123, more work remains to be done.
Yes In My Backyard wrapped just dropped! Head on over to Instagram to see our #1 message, our most memorable moment, our top track, and our top housing wins of 2025 -- all powered by YIMBYs across California!
California YIMBY on Instagram: "Yes In My Backyard wrapped just dropped! All the hits, all the wins, all the homes 🏘️"
41 likes, 1 comments - cayimby on December 15, 2025: "Yes In My Backyard wrapped just dropped! All the hits, all the wins, all the homes 🏘️".
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December 16, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Yes In My Backyard wrapped just dropped! Head on over to Instagram to see our #1 message, our most memorable moment, our top track, and our top housing wins of 2025 -- all powered by YIMBYs across California!
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California YIMBY is thrilled to announce our first round of endorsements for the 2026 Senate elections, which are in this thread by district number.
If you want to support our political work, please donate to the California YIMBY Victory Fund, which you can do here:
If you want to support our political work, please donate to the California YIMBY Victory Fund, which you can do here:
Donate to California YIMBY Victory Fund
Show your support with a contribution.
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December 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
California YIMBY is thrilled to announce our first round of endorsements for the 2026 Senate elections, which are in this thread by district number.
If you want to support our political work, please donate to the California YIMBY Victory Fund, which you can do here:
If you want to support our political work, please donate to the California YIMBY Victory Fund, which you can do here:
California YIMBY is thrilled to announce our first round of endorsements for the 2026 Senate elections, which are in this thread by district number.
If you want to support our political work, please donate to the California YIMBY Victory Fund, which you can do here:
If you want to support our political work, please donate to the California YIMBY Victory Fund, which you can do here:
Donate to California YIMBY Victory Fund
Show your support with a contribution.
secure.actblue.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
California YIMBY is thrilled to announce our first round of endorsements for the 2026 Senate elections, which are in this thread by district number.
If you want to support our political work, please donate to the California YIMBY Victory Fund, which you can do here:
If you want to support our political work, please donate to the California YIMBY Victory Fund, which you can do here:
California YIMBY is pleased to endorse Malia Cohen for Controller.
December 11, 2025 at 10:20 AM
California YIMBY is pleased to endorse Malia Cohen for Controller.
California YIMBY is thrilled to announce our first round of endorsements for the 2026 Assembly election, which are in this thread by district number.
If you want to support our political work, please donate to the California YIMBY Victory Fund, which you can do here:
If you want to support our political work, please donate to the California YIMBY Victory Fund, which you can do here:
Donate to California YIMBY Victory Fund
Show your support with a contribution.
secure.actblue.com
December 10, 2025 at 1:28 AM
California YIMBY is thrilled to announce our first round of endorsements for the 2026 Assembly election, which are in this thread by district number.
If you want to support our political work, please donate to the California YIMBY Victory Fund, which you can do here:
If you want to support our political work, please donate to the California YIMBY Victory Fund, which you can do here:
If policymakers want to preserve older, rent-controlled housing stock, they should permit lots of new market rate housing.
When housing supply is constrained, increases in demand lead to reductions in the stock of rent-controlled housing.
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December 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
If policymakers want to preserve older, rent-controlled housing stock, they should permit lots of new market rate housing.
Housing is good and we should build more of it in the places people want to live.
One of the biggest drivers of high housing costs is that a small, highly motivated group of incumbent homeowners block new housing in their neighborhoods and almost no one is organized to push back.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
Young people bear the brunt of that imbalance.
Be a housing fan.
December 6, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Housing is good and we should build more of it in the places people want to live.
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1.) The first is my alma mater, @cayimby.bsky.social. They scored a huge win this year with the passage of SB 79, Scott Wiener's transit-oriented development bill. But there's still much more work to do to end California's housing crisis. secure.actblue.com/donate/victo...
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Help end the housing shortage by supporting candidates and ballot measures.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
1.) The first is my alma mater, @cayimby.bsky.social. They scored a huge win this year with the passage of SB 79, Scott Wiener's transit-oriented development bill. But there's still much more work to do to end California's housing crisis. secure.actblue.com/donate/victo...
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Come Downtown to this party, it will be lit!
SoCal: we are having a victory party THIS THURSDAY in Los Angeles. Come through! cayimby.org/2025-la-vict...
2025 Los Angeles Victory Party
Join Abundant Housing Los Angeles and California YIMBY for the 2025 Victory Party in Los Angeles! This year we have much to celebrate, including our landmark victory in reforming CEQA to exempt infill...
cayimby.org
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Come Downtown to this party, it will be lit!
SoCal: we are having a victory party THIS THURSDAY in Los Angeles. Come through! cayimby.org/2025-la-vict...
2025 Los Angeles Victory Party
Join Abundant Housing Los Angeles and California YIMBY for the 2025 Victory Party in Los Angeles! This year we have much to celebrate, including our landmark victory in reforming CEQA to exempt infill...
cayimby.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:20 PM
SoCal: we are having a victory party THIS THURSDAY in Los Angeles. Come through! cayimby.org/2025-la-vict...
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New vacancy chain paper:
November 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
New vacancy chain paper:
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“The vacated homes were substantially cheaper than the new units and spanned diverse locations and housing types.”
When people move into new housing developments, they free up space in older housing. This is good for housing affordability and availability.
When people move into new housing developments, they free up space in older housing. This is good for housing affordability and availability.
Interesting new working paper that studies chains of movers after the construction of a new apartment building in Honolulu.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
Paper finds that the project resulted in the opening up other, lower cost, housing on the island, benefiting the housing market overall.
uhero.hawaii.edu
November 28, 2025 at 4:14 PM
“The vacated homes were substantially cheaper than the new units and spanned diverse locations and housing types.”
When people move into new housing developments, they free up space in older housing. This is good for housing affordability and availability.
When people move into new housing developments, they free up space in older housing. This is good for housing affordability and availability.