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California YIMBY

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[VICTORY ALERT] Governor Newsom has signed SB 79, which will make it legal to build multi-family housing near high quality transit!

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October 10, 2025 at 4:31 PM

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Omar Wasow

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“86% of LA respondents support building apartments in one or more of a [wide range] of areas. That number isn’t a typo. This level of agreement is unheard of in politics and should be enough of a reason to build more housing immediately.“ — @zacharyst.bsky.social escholarship.org/content/qt4m...

"Issue brief from UCLA Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies titled A Large Majority of Angelenos Want More Apartments — Even on Single-Family Streets (by Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld, 2025). The brief discusses Los Angeles Mayor Bass’s December 16, 2022 executive order streamlining the approval process for 100% affordable housing to 60 days, and notes survey findings from the Los Angeles Quality of Life Index showing that most residents want more multifamily housing in their own neighborhoods."

Figure 2: "Map of Los Angeles City Council districts shaded by percent of respondents supporting new apartments on streets with mostly single-family homes. Support is highest in CD1 (87.23%) and CD13 (83.37%), with other high-support districts including CD10 (79.01%) and CD9 (78.51%). Lowest support is in CD2 (47.77%) and CD4 (51.08%). Most districts show majority support above 60%."

Figure 4:
"Map of Los Angeles City Council districts shaded by percent of respondents supporting new apartments in their own neighborhood. Support is highest in CD9 (76.57%), CD10 (70.67%), and CD14 (69.48%). Lowest support is in CD11 (46.14%) and CD7 (49.11%). Most districts fall between 50% and 65% support, with stronger backing in the central and southern districts."

August 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM

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Carter Rubin

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Thank goodness we have Laura Friedman in Congress leading the charge for transit. LA Subway counter-programming tomorrow afternoon.

February 20, 2025 at 4:02 AM

Brandon Whalen

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Elections are fascinating. Orange is the new purple.

LAist @laist.com · Nov 26

Orange County is still tallying votes, but overall, the results are clear — O.C. is more purple than ever. LAist talked to political scientists and analyzed trends to come up with five big takeaways from the November election results.

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✍️ Jill Replogle, Cato Hernández