AB 956 will increase the housing potential of single-family lots by empowering homeowners to build up to two detached ADUs (accessory dwelling units) on their properties. cayimby.org/legislation/...

House Sac’s Kate Rodgers on @kcranews.bsky.social about last night‘s planning commission vote on whether to bring more than 300 new homes to East Sacramento. Support for the project was unanimous (of course).

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...

AB 1294 creates a single, statewide application process for new home construction in California, making it faster, cheaper, and easier for home builders to complete the application process. cayimby.org/legislation/...

Condos are the dog that doesn’t bark in California housing. My article on how enabling middle-class homeownership requires fixing the multifamily for-sale market: housesac.substack.com/p/sacramento... @sacyimby.bsky.social @cayimby.bsky.social @muhammadspeaks.bsky.social

AB 1070 will direct state agencies to study how using the residential building code for small, multi-family home projects could accelerate the construction of “missing middle” housing. cayimby.org/legislation/...

AB 1406 will give more Californians a pathway to affordable homeownership by raising current limits on homebuyer deposits in new housing developments. The bill helps builders lower their costs by reducing risk, ultimately leading to lower-cost homes for Californians. cayimby.org/legislation/...

Modern apartments have lower fire death rates than houses. Yet codes require fourplexes to install commercial sprinklers, build dual staircases, and hire architects—while similar-sized single-family houses are exempt. These costs block building smaller apartment buildings.

SB 79 and CEQA reform were historic victories. In 2026, we are building on them by reforming barriers to homeownership, addressing excessive fees, and "cleaning up" existing laws so that more housing can get built. Here is a preview of what we are focusing on this year: 🧵 /5

[BILL ALERT] AB 1406, which reforms new home deposits to make building condos for working families more feasible, has passed the Assembly floor! The bill now heads to the Senate. Learn more: cayimby.org/legislation/... Thank you to author @asmchrisward.bsky.social.

Wonky but important: AB 1406 will make it easier to build new apartments for homeownership by bringing California's home deposit regulations in line with North American best practices. Use our tool to email to your Assembly member in support: actionnetwork.org/letters/supp...

California YIMBY is pleased to endorse Mara Elliott for Senate District 40!

California YIMBY is pleased to endorse Avelino Valencia for Senate District 34!

California YIMBY is pleased to endorse Sara Hernandez for Senate District 26!

California YIMBY is pleased to endorse @johnericksonwh.bsky.social for Senate District 24!

California YIMBY is pleased to endorse Nathan Magsig for Senate District 12!

California YIMBY is pleased to endorse @asmdamonconnolly.bsky.social for Senate District 2!

Come work with us! We're hiring a Chief of Staff to help lead and scale our growing organization.

Why is everything so expensive in places like SF? The housing shortage. Usually this is indirect, the need to pay labor enough to live within a reasonable commute. Sometimes, as here, the connection is literal and direct. www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

The Student Homes Coalition is hiring an organizing manager. This is a great opportunity with a lot of growth potential for early-career people in California: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

New from me: A brief for @rooseveltinstitute.org on the logic of YIMBY policymaking and its applicability to other domains. What principles underlying the YIMBY agenda are transferrable to thinking about energy, healthcare, and other areas? Short 🧵 to follow. rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

California YIMBY is pleased to endorse @pereaforassembly.bsky.social for Assembly District 31.

California YIMBY is pleased to endorse Andrae Gonzales for Assembly District 35.

California YIMBY is pleased to endorse @robbonta.bsky.social for California Attorney General.

"San Diego shows what happens when a city actually lets builders build" www.latimes.com/business/sto...

San Diego is building apartments at nearly twice the rate of Los Angeles, with new construction up 10%, while LA’s has plummeted 33% over 3 years. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

TWO big Sac housing events coming up that you're not going to want to miss. FIRST: Our 2026 Sacramento legislative town hall with @cayimby.bsky.social. Invite only -- join our discord for invitation! discord.com/invite/zemKf...

There's been a lot of discourse on here about birth rates. One study points to housing costs as a key factor: "Rising housing costs since 1990 may be responsible for 11% fewer children born—a massive shift that accounts for 51% of the total drop in U.S. birth rates between the 2000s and 2010s"

[BILL ALERT] AB 1406, which reforms new home deposits to make for-sale apartment construction more feasible, has passed the Assembly Judiciary Committee and is headed to the floor. Learn more: cayimby.org/legislation/...

“In the past few years we have enshrined the most consequential housing reforms in our state’s history. Just last year alone I was proud to sign 61 housing reform bills, clearing away regulatory thickets and modernizing our environmental review.” - @cagovernornewsom.bsky.social

We're paying close attention the Select Committee on Housing Construction Innovation, led by @buffywicks.bsky.social, and their efforts to reduce building costs.

Solid rundown on many of the new housing laws that just went into effect, including several of our sponsored bills. www.kqed.org/news/1206874...

In case you missed it, this is a great story about how we got started and the work we do today, centered on our founder @hanlon.bsky.social.

Modernizing construction will be key to ensuring that California gets the homes we need to be an affordable place to live and raise a family. We are excited to see where this goes!

Great interview with our own @mnolangray.bsky.social!

California YIMBY sends our fond congratulations to Senator Cervantes on her appointment as Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee! We look forward to working with her to make California an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family.

California YIMBY sends our fond congratulations to Senator Durazo on her reappointment as Chair of the Senate Local Government Committee! We look forward to working with her to make California an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family.

California YIMBY sends our fond congratulations to Senator Arreguín on his appointment as Chair of the Senate Housing Committee! We look forward to working with him to make California an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family.

California's construction defect liability system was supposed to protect consumers. But a new report suggests it has become a barrier, preventing middle-income families from buying condos and townhomes in California’s expensive cities:

“We have to get past ‘I think it’s ugly,’ and [the project] stops. I want to live in a city where architects can dream. If you don’t let that happen, you end up with lowest-common-denominator buildings.” - @mateosfo.bsky.social on the density bonus project proposal at SF's Marina Safeway.

Congratulations to our friends in Illinois for passing major parking reforms!

Portland has kept homeownership attainable for middle-class families by broadly legalizing townhomes on single family lots. While California has made progress on this with SB 684 and 1123, more work remains to be done.

Yes In My Backyard wrapped just dropped! Head on over to Instagram to see our #1 message, our most memorable moment, our top track, and our top housing wins of 2025 -- all powered by YIMBYs across California!

California YIMBY is thrilled to announce our first round of endorsements for the 2026 Senate elections, which are in this thread by district number. If you want to support our political work, please donate to the California YIMBY Victory Fund, which you can do here:

California YIMBY is thrilled to announce our first round of endorsements for the 2026 Senate elections, which are in this thread by district number. If you want to support our political work, please donate to the California YIMBY Victory Fund, which you can do here:

California YIMBY is pleased to endorse Malia Cohen for Controller.

California YIMBY is thrilled to announce our first round of endorsements for the 2026 Assembly election, which are in this thread by district number. If you want to support our political work, please donate to the California YIMBY Victory Fund, which you can do here:

If policymakers want to preserve older, rent-controlled housing stock, they should permit lots of new market rate housing.

Housing is good and we should build more of it in the places people want to live.

1.) The first is my alma mater, @cayimby.bsky.social. They scored a huge win this year with the passage of SB 79, Scott Wiener's transit-oriented development bill. But there's still much more work to do to end California's housing crisis. secure.actblue.com/donate/victo...