Any reporting claiming California has “weakened” its environmental laws is flat-out wrong. We *strengthened* our environmental regulatory regime by streamlining the single-most climate-friendly policy goal: infill housing.

As we advance big housing reforms — including my bill to allow more homes near transit & @buffywicks.bsky.social bill to exempt infill housing from CEQA — we can look to Sacramento as an example of what happens when a city takes housing production seriously: Lower costs & the sky doesn’t fall.

I’m still hung up on this. Sac has had 3 straight years of rent declines in real terms, its population grew and incomes grew double digits. This is the opposite experience of cities like SF/LA where rents rose alongside economic prosperity. It’s not inevitable! www.colliers.com/en/research/...

Reminder! Our conversation with Supervisor Rich Desmond on housing in Sacramento County is LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AWAY! We can’t wait to see you there!

Reminder that the deadline to apply to these is 5/2! Land Use Planner positions at SACOG don't come up very often so jump on it if you are interested. Feel free to dm or email with any questions!

Should be higher but proud of this city

Come work with me on the intersection of land use, housing, and climate! SACOG is hiring two land use and housing planners right now. One associate and one planner II. Feel free to reach out if you are interested. governmentjobs.com/careers/sacog

You can use SB 684 coupled with our missing middle ordinance to do several of these on lots across Sacramento right now. There is a ton of demand for smaller for sale products like this on the grid and inner ring suburbs.

Great turnout at Sacramentos small development workshop today!

Huge Sacramento news — the City is proposing a new team of 6 engineers with funding devoted exclusively to safe streets quick build and tactical innovation projects! @arianelange.bsky.social's story here: www.sacbee.com/news/local/a... BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP TO GET THIS PASSED! Here's how:

….hell ya

I think 1985 was the best housing year for the Sacramento region on record in terms of overall production and product split. Actually the 20 year splits tell an interesting story. 1985: 24k units, 60% attached 2005: 23k units, 17% attached 2023: 12k units*, 30% attached *highest since GFC

JT!!

REALLY cool project resubmitted in Oak Park on the corner of 3rd Ave and 36th. It's 6 townhome looking lots, except there is a studio on each floor for a total of 18 units. Ground floor units open onto the street, 2nd and 3rd floor units use the external stairway behind. Comes out to 163 units/acre.

This would probably more than double the area in our region relative to the standard “within a half mile of major transit stop” criteria. I think using the transit proximity stuff for all housing bills as a proxy for location efficiency is becoming pretty antiquated.

Sacramento probably the best poised city in the state to successfully develop and operate social housing. Given ample public land, good zoning, and CADA (which currently is a public housing operator) all the pieces are there for a public sector housing boom.

Little 9 unit project in unincorporated Sac County down on Stockton and 66th WITH 3 deed restricted affordable units to get a density bonus. One interesting thing I've been seeing is projects that qualify for 0 parking under AB 2097 using density bonus to reduce required parking.

None of the three story townhomes in this picture would be allowed under Sacramentos bulk control requirements, which are currently the law of the land in all formerly R1 and R2 zones. It’s a problem. We have to fix that before we see meaningful outcome change.

The City of LA is 40% of LA county population but 80% of housing production. City of Sacramento is 33% of sac county population and 36% of permits. What are y’all doing down there in la county suburbs?

Troubling push notification to wake up to this morning

Zoning regulations in theory: omg we cannot allow people to live near the big toxic waste plant, that’s unsafe Zoning regulations in practice: look the only place you can build apartments is near the 18-lane interchange because we don’t want *those* people living any closer

One of the underrated impacts of AB 2097, which eliminated parking mins near existing and planned transit across CA, was that a bunch of cities just expanded that area well beyond the half mile buffer or just did it citywide bc may as well just do the damn thing if half your city is already done.

Ryan isn’t over here yet but he’s calling the Sacramento mayoral race for Kevin McCarty. Unbelievably close primary (where 500 votes separated 4th from 2nd) and now general election.

Another lifted bungalow in oak park becoming a duplex

This stuff does not need to be expensive!

We need a Sacramento starter pack! Gotta rebuild the local chatter of the former place. Send me other prominent Sacramentans to add! @dovkadin.bsky.social @anniekeys.bsky.social @louismirante.bsky.social @ansel.lundberg.com @byrobinepley.bsky.social @habermenos.bsky.social go.bsky.app/8ALayCD

Sacramento just passed essentially the same reform package minus property tax exemptions (thanks prop 13) but I’m skeptical we will see the same results Spokane is seeing until rates come down. The math isn’t mathing rn.

This area of gold country is super underrated (Amador city, Murphy’s, big trees state park, pine grove etc). Fantastic wine, good snow, sequoias, short term rental cabins for half the price of Tahoe or even like Nevada City. Big fan.

Hell yeah. Construction starting this week on Dos Rios infill light rail station. Within a few years, this will be the cornerstone of a new walkable neighborhood in the river district 🚊🚉

Would love to see Sacramento do this. @sacyimby.bsky.social could be an actionable thing to pursue on the safe streets front.

For political purposes, rising income does not make up for inflation. People think their raise is because of them but the price of eggs going up is because of government

House Sac does amazing pro housing work here in Sacramento. Drop a follow and join the mailing list if you are in the area!

Sacramentans! House Sacramento is now on Bluesky! We’ll have some fun stuff cooking in 2025 so definitely follow to stay in the loop!

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Broke: 2nd transbay tube Woke: Sacramento BART extension

Democrats need to embrace making it easier & faster to produce the things people need — e.g., housing, clean energy, child care, transit — & move away from government-created scarcity. An abundance approach lowers cost of living. Democrats need to lean into being the Party of abundance.

Last night at planning commission i was told staff looked into local building code changes to allow for single stair and RBC threshold and found it’s illegal under ca law. This runs completely counter to my understanding so long as it meets performance standards.

We out here building housing (as long as you compare us to anemic coastal ca regions and not high growth regions outside California...)

Sexy

www.zillow.com/homedetails/... 10k sqft lot in east sac for $250k. Lot is 50 x 175. Under our now active missing middle ordinance, could easily do 8-9 of these townhomes all the way back.

And apparently we need to specify no bulk and massing control so you can build simple three story structures without dormers…