California YIMBY

California YIMBY is a statewide advocacy organization working to pass legislation to end CA’s housing shortage by empowering and growing the YIMBY movement.

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Pre-reviewed home designs cut permit time, but only alongside wider reforms.

Claremore, OK officials estimate 80% faster approvals.

But Cupertino's designs have produced only three backyard homes because other reviews still apply.

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Urban Institute finds one in five working-age renters paid rent late or short in 2025. The middle-income share grew fastest.

Co-author Samantha Batko says these renters end up moving to cheaper homes, displacing lower-income renters.

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Prop 45 changes environmental review, and California YIMBY has no recommendation.

The measure affects housing, but its broader impact falls on non-housing projects, so we encourage voters to weigh both sides and decide for themselves.

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A working paper estimates that a standard 20-unit apartment building takes nearly 5 years from application to completion in San Francisco, New York, and Miami.

Raleigh builds one in about the time SF takes to approve the permit.

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If California's rents fell to the national average, its poverty rate would drop 30%, Pew finds. Rents absorbed 78% of CalFresh's $13.1B benefit growth since 1989.

Austin and Minneapolis saw rents fall about 20% after reforms, Pew says.

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In the states Pew studied, rising rents absorbed over half of the SNAP increase from 1989 to 2023.

In New Jersey, it was 84%. Pew says building more homes can lower rents, so aid goes further.

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Central Valley races can be decided by small turnout differences, so every conversation with a voter matters.

Join a YIMBY Day of Action on Oct. 17 to knock doors, text, or call for Brian Pacheco in AD 27.

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Altadena's SB 1090 pauses a law that would allow up to 10 homes on a lot.

The Real Deal found that about 40% of destroyed parcels have no rebuild application on file.

CA YIMBY's Matthew Lewis says extra homes could give owners rental income to fund rebuilding.

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A new Fresno YIMBY group held its first meeting on Sept. 29 with planners, renters, and homeowners.

Organizer Drew Phelps says the focus is on practical fixes because city plans can encourage housing on paper, while code details make it hard to build.

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Newsom signed over 30 housing bills this year, including SB 1116, to make it easier to build smaller starter homes like condos and townhomes.

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Governors sign housing laws and attorneys general help enforce them, so statewide races shape how many homes get built.

California YIMBY has endorsed Xavier Becerra for Governor and Rob Bonta for Attorney General, among others.

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SB 79 overrides city zoning to allow more homes near transit stops.

John Erickson, a candidate for state Senate District 24, says he supports it and that cities should build more affordable housing along transit corridors.