RAND: Measure ULA blocked 9,000+ new homes and cost LA $452M in forgone revenue. Fewer homes mean higher rents for everyone. Targeted reform could produce 19,000 more homes while preserving 72% of revenue. www.rand.org/pubs/researc...

"a mix of tendentious, biased research, feeble academic agitprop and jargon-laden nonsense" is my new go-to description for the anti-YIMBY slop coming out of geography departments. www.vanderbilt.edu/principles/s...

State of Scholarship Report

Introduction We presume that our readers recognize the value of the humanistic disciplines and their central place in the modern research university. The humanities and the social sciences take as the...

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California if the legislature didn’t water down every Wiener housing bill

Saikat for Congress@saikatforcongress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Scott Wiener's results on housing: ❌SF median home price doubled ❌CA homelessness at all-time high ❌SF built fewer homes / year than when Scott started ❌CA housing supply gap unchanged at 3 million units ❌Share of Californians who can buy a home decreased by a third

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3mo ago

Trump and sons to be ‘forever’ exempt from tax audits ft.trib.al/ePJ9DiF

San Diego fell from 5th to 12th most expensive rental market by building more multifamily housing per capita than any other California city. This is what happens when you actually build. The lesson isn't complicated. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/05/13/s...

The corruption surrounding Trump’s “settlement” with the IRS is breathtaking: Nearly $2B to be disbursed to Trump’s allies, releasing Trump, his families & businesses from all tax liability & immunizing them from audits. There must be severe accountability for this strip-mining of the U.S. Treasury

We have four great pro-housing candidates running for governor. Here's what we like, what concerns us, and questions we still have about Xavier Becerra, Tom Steyer, Katie Porter, and Matt Mahan. By our co-founder and CEO, @hanlon.bsky.social:

On the Race for California Governor: An Abundance of Pro-Housing Candidates

Ballots have already dropped. The primary is June 2. What follows is what we like, what concerns us, and the specific questions we still want answered by each candidate. We've tried to be honest and t...

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Becerra sued a city under the HAA and won. Steyer backed SB 79 when it was costly to. Porter has shown rare willingness to say no to allies. Mahan cut fees and unlocked 2,000 homes in San Jose. 3,300+ word assessment of the candidates, and 3 asks for the winner:🧵 cayimby.org/blog/on-the-...

On the Race for California Governor: An Abundance of Pro-Housing Candidates

Ballots have already dropped. The primary is June 2. What follows is what we like, what concerns us, and the specific questions we still want answered by each candidate. We've tried to be honest and t...

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Posting is cool, but taking action is even cooler. One of the most impactful thing you can do to advance YIMBYism in California is to team up with other YIMBYs and knock on doors for pro-housing candidates. Join us this Saturday for the first YIMBY Day of Action! linktr.ee/cayimby#5595...

most YIMBY skeptical work tends to be bad but this is so absurdly bad I’m amazed the Urban Institute published it

Ned Resnikoff@resnikoff.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Woof. I've been critical of this Urban Institute study since it first dropped, but it turns out that the methodological errors were even more serious than I understood. econjwatch.org/file_downloa...

One of the most effective things you can do for housing is help elect people who support it. May 9 & 16, California YIMBY Days of Action make it easy. Find a canvass near you, show up, and help move a competitive primary in the right direction. linktr.ee/cayimby#5595...

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Any tall Portlanders have a bike I could borrow from June 19 - 20, or know of a good shop that rents bikes for tall people?

I've spent my life sticking my neck out for San Francisco. Building housing to bring down costs, protecting our healthcare, and making sure ICE can't hide behind masks. I've got a long neck, and an even longer track record of serving this community. I'd be honored to represent you in Congress.

Philanthropic foundations: please don’t fund a left-right alliance against liberal democracy because you dislike neoliberalism. Fascism is much much worse!

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Fascism is worse than neoliberalism in literally every way

Oregon's legislature passed a bill requiring cities to fund affordability mandates for new buildings or scrap them. Portland's unfunded version had driven builders to cap projects at 19 homes to dodge the mandate. www.sightline.org/2026/03/05/o...

Oregon’s New Path to Inclusionary Housing: Fully Funded and Flexible | Sightline Institute

An environmental justice champion led the push to end counterproductive, unfunded mandates.

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Favorite tools for *reliably* and *accurately* extracting text from PDFs?

Despite some reports, California YIMBY is not close to endorsing anyone for Governor. Those who say otherwise are lying. We look forward to hearing from Democratic candidates for Governor at our candidate forum on Friday morning!

"The ballot initiative is bad and will destroy local housing production, but the vibes are good so I'm voting for it." Reminds me of how folks in Los Angeles talked about ULA, a blunder that might be ending Mayor Bass' career four years early.

Michelle Wu 吳弭@wutrain.bsky.social · 6mo ago

I’ve been clear that I don’t support the ballot initiative language as written—Boston has advanced our own proposal that has been blocked by the State—but I’m voting for it bc a ballot question is the only way to move the ball down the field with our State here & give a chance for legislative fixes.

Legalize beauty! Here’s a preview of California YIMBY’s new aesthetic agenda. We can achieve broad-based housing affordability AND build beautiful buildings and neighborhoods.

California YIMBY@cayimby.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Ugly and cheap-looking buildings can turn housing-neutral voters into opponents. The fix isn’t more design review meetings or process – it’s streamlined rules and tools: modernized building codes that make smaller, more varied buildings feasible. cayimby.org/blog/buildin...

What if NYC invested $1B/yr in building transit instead of free-fare buses? 41 miles of new subway, housing, and so much more. @usa.streetsblog.org looks at the Transit Cost Project's new 'expansive and audacious plan' to make the city more affordable.

“San Francisco taxes new housing at about the same rate that it taxes cigarettes.” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open... by @dbroockman.bsky.social

If S.F. Mayor Lurie wants affordability, he should stop taxing new homes at the same rate as cigarettes

OPINION: If Mayor Lurie wants to deliver on his promises of affordability, he should San Francisco from putting sin taxes on new homes, David Broockman writes.

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Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win

Arno_Xen (ANTIFA)@arno-aman.bsky.social · 6mo ago

How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.

1. Shoot people like dogs 2. Unrest 3. Martial law The plan is that transparent. Don’t let them

Will Stancil@whstancil.bsky.social · 6mo ago

ALL MN PROTESTERS Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.

8w / ch isn’t enough. Have an old HiFi integrated or separates? Donate them to California YIMBY!

💯 We should also honor, and work to embody, the extraordinary discipline of civil rights movement participants to execute their outcome-oriented plans, rather than do what felt righteous.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 7mo ago

i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals

2,500 likes for a tweet that misrepresents the argument in the screenshot. Adam Jentleson does not say Dems “should adopt the policy positions of the average MAGA voter.” I agree - Dems shouldn’t do that! Dems do need to persuade some Trump voters to exercise power, however.

G Elliott Morris@gelliottmorris.com · 7mo ago

Losing my mind at the Dems with their billionaire backers and powerful friends who have come up with the brilliant strategy that the party should adopt the policy positions of the avg MAGA voter — apparently ignoring that independents and swing voters even exist. Is this what $40 million gets you??

Please think harder about what it means that Trump’s goons are killing American moms with impunity, where Trumpism could go, and what it will take to stop him. Most American voters supported Trump. We need to make it easy and OK for Trump’s former supporters to join his longstanding opponents.

Chris Ingraham@cingraham.bsky.social · 7mo ago

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Extremely cool policy job opening for anyone interested in transportation. Can be fully remote (US only)! www.metroabundance.org/jobs/transpo...

Transportation Research Associate - Metropolitan Abundance Project

The Organization The Metropolitan Abundance Project (MAP) works to make American cities prosperous, affordable, sustainable, and joyous places to live and raise families. We help advocates and legisla...

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Want to learn what's in the pipeline in the California Legislature this year to get more & better housing for everyone? RSVP for the Legislative Town Hall in Oakland this Saturday at 10:30am, by @cayimby.bsky.social and co-sponsored by us. actionnetwork.org/forms/2026-o...

2026 Oakland Legislative Town Hall

The YIMBY Movement took huge strides toward making California housing more affordable and abundant this year – and YOU helped make it happen. That’s why we’re inviting you to the 2026 YIMBY Legislativ...

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As we kick off the first hearing of the Select Committee on Housing Construction Innovation, here’s why modernizing construction is essential to building housing faster and more affordably ⬇️