Robyn Leslie
@rduisbergleslie.bsky.social
Building a powerful and inclusive movement to solve California’s housing, climate, and economic challenges. Working together, we all prosper. www.prosperitycalifornia.org
New and important challenge to funders everywhere from @resnikoff.bsky.social
New from me for Inside Philanthropy: California foundations need to decide whether they genuinely want to improve housing affordability or would rather keep funding NIMBY obstructionism in Sacramento. www.insidephilanthropy.com/home/philant...
Philanthropy Needs to Pick a Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Despite California’s severe housing shortage, foundations are still funding on the wrong side of the housing fight there, guest author Ned Resnikoff writes.
www.insidephilanthropy.com
November 21, 2025 at 2:21 AM
New and important challenge to funders everywhere from @resnikoff.bsky.social
At the Family Zoning Plan rally in SF and a speaker just said her grandmother died last night and the people opposed to the plan shouted liar at her. If this is the character of the opposition to plans to keep seniors in the city and welcome new neighbors, you sure you want to join them?
September 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
At the Family Zoning Plan rally in SF and a speaker just said her grandmother died last night and the people opposed to the plan shouted liar at her. If this is the character of the opposition to plans to keep seniors in the city and welcome new neighbors, you sure you want to join them?
Reposted by Robyn Leslie
It's crunchtime, folks! SB 79, our bill to legalize apartments in transit rich areas of California, is about to go up for a vote! Call, text, and email! @cayimby.bsky.social
cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
Call the Assembly to pass SB 79!
Please call your Assemblymember and urge them to vote YES on SB 79!
cayimby.org
September 10, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It's crunchtime, folks! SB 79, our bill to legalize apartments in transit rich areas of California, is about to go up for a vote! Call, text, and email! @cayimby.bsky.social
cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
cayimby.org/call-sb-79/
Old gas stations and closed dry cleaners are some of the best places for new homes. But inconsistent and not technically sound approaches to removing contamination punish developers who take on more ambitious clean-up projects. We can fix it. prosperitycalifornia.org/news/2025/09...
Better than One in a Million - how inconsistent approaches to cleaning up pollution cost us new housing. | Prosperity California
Gina Plantz, a Senior Principal and Technical Expert with Haley & Aldrich, has decades of experience evaluating and cleaning up land that was
prosperitycalifornia.org
September 9, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Old gas stations and closed dry cleaners are some of the best places for new homes. But inconsistent and not technically sound approaches to removing contamination punish developers who take on more ambitious clean-up projects. We can fix it. prosperitycalifornia.org/news/2025/09...
Reposted by Robyn Leslie
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
August 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout.
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base.
(🎥 AP)
I ran a free tax prep site where the IRS trained us to tell people there was a firewall between ICE and the IRS. It was a point of pride for many people to pay taxes in a country where they found opportunity. This is predatory and not getting enough attention: www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...
IRS begins sharing sensitive taxpayer data with immigration authorities to find undocumented migrants | CNN Politics
The Internal Revenue Service began sharing sensitive taxpayer data this week with immigration authorities searching for undocumented migrants, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
www.cnn.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
I ran a free tax prep site where the IRS trained us to tell people there was a firewall between ICE and the IRS. It was a point of pride for many people to pay taxes in a country where they found opportunity. This is predatory and not getting enough attention: www.cnn.com/2025/08/08/p...
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It's 2018. The LA City Council is opposing SB827 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,663
It's 2019. The LA City Council is opposing SB50 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,791
It's 2025. The LA City Council is opposing SB79 because it overrides local control. Rent is $2,625
It's 2019. The LA City Council is opposing SB50 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,791
It's 2025. The LA City Council is opposing SB79 because it overrides local control. Rent is $2,625
“Los Angeles leaders are once again demonstrating their cowardice and failing their own constituents who desperately need more housing—and they’re doing it at the behest of LA’s wealthiest, most entitled voters, who have consistently blocked progress on housing affordability.” - @hanlon.bsky.social
California YIMBY Statement on LA City Council Vote on SB 79
Los Angeles, CA — Today the Los Angeles City Council voted to oppose SB 79, a state bill designed to expand affordable housing near major transit stops. In doing so, councilmembers repeated discredite...
cayimby.org
August 19, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It's 2018. The LA City Council is opposing SB827 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,663
It's 2019. The LA City Council is opposing SB50 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,791
It's 2025. The LA City Council is opposing SB79 because it overrides local control. Rent is $2,625
It's 2019. The LA City Council is opposing SB50 because it overrides local control. Rent is $1,791
It's 2025. The LA City Council is opposing SB79 because it overrides local control. Rent is $2,625
There are hundreds of thousands of contaminated sites in California, many of them old gas stations or auto body shops in great locations for new housing. Why do so many stay vacant or underutilized? Delays and complications that aren't related to safety: prosperitycalifornia.org/blog/2025/08...
Escaping Limbo: after 7 years, these 75 affordable homes in Salinas have yet to break ground. | Prosperity California
This blog is part of a series that illustrates common challenges in cleaning up pollution in our communities and safely reusing land. Prosperity
prosperitycalifornia.org
August 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
There are hundreds of thousands of contaminated sites in California, many of them old gas stations or auto body shops in great locations for new housing. Why do so many stay vacant or underutilized? Delays and complications that aren't related to safety: prosperitycalifornia.org/blog/2025/08...
Love this take on the need for SB 79 from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social leader Monica Rivera: taxpayers fund transit infrastructure and then are blocked from using it by exclusionary land use policies. Let's go! calmatters.org/commentary/2...
Why building more homes near transit will transform lives across California | Opinion
California cities have largely banned apartments and condos, preventing people from living near jobs and transit systems their taxes fund.
calmatters.org
August 5, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Love this take on the need for SB 79 from @abundanthousingla.bsky.social leader Monica Rivera: taxpayers fund transit infrastructure and then are blocked from using it by exclusionary land use policies. Let's go! calmatters.org/commentary/2...
One of our first-ever sponsored bills at @prosperityca.bsky.social was prioritized by the Governor and written into SB 131! Years of work from many in the housing, transit, and renewable energy movements led to these reforms. I couldn't be prouder to be a part of getting them across the finish line!
HUGE news!
Yesterday the State Legislature passed the largest change to CEQA in a generation.
AB 130 and SB 131 will lower the cost of living for working families and put us on the path to a more vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable California.
buff.ly/UUZRlX4
Yesterday the State Legislature passed the largest change to CEQA in a generation.
AB 130 and SB 131 will lower the cost of living for working families and put us on the path to a more vibrant, inclusive, and sustainable California.
buff.ly/UUZRlX4
July 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
One of our first-ever sponsored bills at @prosperityca.bsky.social was prioritized by the Governor and written into SB 131! Years of work from many in the housing, transit, and renewable energy movements led to these reforms. I couldn't be prouder to be a part of getting them across the finish line!
Reposted by Robyn Leslie
🚨Priority Bill Update❗
🥁 Last night, SB 79 (by @scottwiener.bsky.social ) The Abundant and Affordable Homes Near Transit Act 🎉passed 🎉 the Senate floor in a 21 - 13 vote!
Next the bill is off to the State Assembly! Learn more below ⬇️⬇️
🥁 Last night, SB 79 (by @scottwiener.bsky.social ) The Abundant and Affordable Homes Near Transit Act 🎉passed 🎉 the Senate floor in a 21 - 13 vote!
Next the bill is off to the State Assembly! Learn more below ⬇️⬇️
June 4, 2025 at 5:13 PM
🚨Priority Bill Update❗
🥁 Last night, SB 79 (by @scottwiener.bsky.social ) The Abundant and Affordable Homes Near Transit Act 🎉passed 🎉 the Senate floor in a 21 - 13 vote!
Next the bill is off to the State Assembly! Learn more below ⬇️⬇️
🥁 Last night, SB 79 (by @scottwiener.bsky.social ) The Abundant and Affordable Homes Near Transit Act 🎉passed 🎉 the Senate floor in a 21 - 13 vote!
Next the bill is off to the State Assembly! Learn more below ⬇️⬇️
Master class in speaking truth to power right here, from responding to direct threats to his chairmanship to this. Love to see it.
Breaking News: The Fed chair, Jerome Powell, warned that President Trump’s tariffs risked even higher inflation and slower growth than initially expected.
Powell Warns Trump’s Tariffs Risk Stoking Even Higher Inflation and Slower Growth
Jerome H. Powell, chair of the Federal Reserve, says the central bank’s “obligation” is to ensure that a “one-time increase in the price level does not become an ongoing inflation problem.”
www.nytimes.com
April 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Master class in speaking truth to power right here, from responding to direct threats to his chairmanship to this. Love to see it.
I get to work with an incredible team to align public policy and budget priorities with California’s ambitious goals to address climate change, lower our cost of living, increase economic equity, and ensure enough housing is being built to meet our needs. Join us #ProsperTogether
We’re Prosperity California, est 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣. We’re dedicated to building a big tent of partners fighting to ensure every Californian can afford housing, feel safe in their community, and pursue the California dream, no matter what zip code you were born in. Together, we all prosper.
November 18, 2024 at 11:15 PM
I get to work with an incredible team to align public policy and budget priorities with California’s ambitious goals to address climate change, lower our cost of living, increase economic equity, and ensure enough housing is being built to meet our needs. Join us #ProsperTogether