YIMBY Voice

04/20/2020

To understand why housing policy is climate policy, consider two city blocks with 18 homes each.

On one of those blocks, suppose something happens that’s currently legal almost everywhere: Three relatively old, disintegrating homes are torn down and replaced by three 3,400-square-foot home..

The carbon savings from 'middle housing' like duplexes are voluntary, self-financing and immense. So why are they illegal?

02/14/2020

"America has a housing crisis. The homeownership rate for young adults is at a multidecade low, and about a quarter of renters send more than half their income to the landlord. Homelessness is resurgent, eviction displaces a million households a year, and about four million people spend at least three hours driving to and from work."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/13/business/economy/housing-crisis-conor-dougherty-golden-gates.html

02/14/2020

"Virtually unknown to his tenants or the public, Nijjar is one of the biggest landlords in the state. Companies he is connected to make up a vast rental empire centered in some of the poorest parts of Southern California.

Nijjar himself lives in a Los Angeles suburb that Forbes Magazine once called "America's Most Expensive ZIP Code." His 12,000-square-foot hillside mansion, dubbed "Villa Bellefontaine," sits in a gated community and boasts six bedrooms, nine bathrooms, a waterfall, a tennis court, a reflecting pool, a screening room and a vineyard."

At the bottom rung of the SoCal rental market, some tenants live in insect- and mold-infested units, struggling to get their most basic maintenance needs met.

01/11/2020

Veterans Park Apartments was awarded $1.8 million in annual federal tax credits last year.

12/13/2019

Add your name today and tell your representatives that you support SB 50 as the common-sense solution to tackling our housing crisis. California’s housing deficit is now equal to that of every other state combined. While a 3.5 million home shortage may seem insurmountable, SB 50 will be heard in t...

12/08/2019

https://actionnetwork.org/events/morehomes-happy-hour/

It's a Happy Hour! We all care about the inequities and environmental damage created by current housing policy. Please join us for a spirited conversation about all things housing and to meet like-minded people over pizza. Senate Bill 50, the More HOMES Act, is coming in January 2020 and....