Gill Pressman

Managing Director @ YIMBY Action and YIMBY Law

[Gill Pressman @PressmanGillian]

@wafoli I gotta say I have a soft spot for the old school, extremely unsophisticated and shockingly still in circulation: “But we all worked hard to live in this neighborhood for high-income people. Why should we open it up to people who didn’t get to where we are?”

[Gill Pressman @PressmanGillian]

Love this take on @bilalmahmood ‘s fantastic op-ed

[Gill Pressman @PressmanGillian]

“It is not hyperbole to suggest that CEQA has brought California to a breaking point.” Great piece on CEQA and how the courts could help!

[Chris Elmendorf @CSElmendorf]

I have long piece on CEQA reform in Sunday's @sfchronicle (it's online now).

My first draft tried to make an epistemic point about difficulty of knowing how big a problem CEQA is. It didn't make the final cut, so this 🧵 explains it. 1/15

https://t.co/ZFBUqSgjHI

[Gill Pressman @PressmanGillian]

Squeee loving my @yimbyaction Homes for All sweatshirt. (Cat slippers not included unfortunately) We are giving to donors of $200 or more! https://t.co/JrZToVrXjJ

[Gill Pressman @PressmanGillian]

Look who’s donating to @yimbyaction this season! Let’s solve homelessness at its root; the staggeringly inadequate number of homes.

[farhad manjoo (former bluecheck) @fmanjoo]

As part of @NYTOpinion’s Giving Guide, I wrote about how to direct your charity to help homelessness in California.

https://t.co/BYUkGP09A5

[Gill Pressman @PressmanGillian]

“Many want solutions, just not that solution, situated near them or their child’s school. And no, not that one either; it’s hideous. Or that one: Haven’t you seen the parking problems this neighborhood already has?” https://t.co/pm5nqYn0tg

[Gill Pressman @PressmanGillian]

“What good is a progressive society if no one can afford to live in it?”

We’re closing off accepting cities like San Francisco by making it impossible to build housing for newcomers. This must change!

Great piece by @SFyimby Board member @bilalmahmood

https://t.co/cIgskxh5aJ

[Gill Pressman @PressmanGillian]

.@yimbyaction is hiring a Development Associate! Are you a fantastic writer and love the idea of fundraising so that the pro-housing movement can explode??https://t.co/W3Xdlw0Ua8

[Cathy Reisenwitz @CathyReisenwitz]

Everything wrong with SF relates directly to the housing crisis. It results not from progressive policies, but from the idea that buying a piece of property entitles you to use the force of law to exclude undesirables from your neighborhood.

https://t.co/44KhM1ASZs

[Gill Pressman @PressmanGillian]

Wow! How’s that for neighborhood character?

[kar nels @kar_nels]

This is future YIMBYs want.

Minneapolis street now and 8 years ago.

[Gill Pressman @PressmanGillian]

Look at @yimbyaction Lead @_fruchtose go!! https://t.co/rTxmPo2lNk

[YIMBY Law @Yimby_Law]

More letters. “It’s not A FEW upset wealthy horse owners … it’s a very large and thriving community of horse owners!”

#burbank #pickwickbowl

[Alex Steffen @AlexSteffen]

Berkeley councilmember @loridroste to NIMBYs trying to block new multifamily housing on the huge parking lot surrounding N. Berkeley BART station:

"The proposed development isn't out of scale with the neighborhood. The neighborhood's out of scale with California's needs."

BOOM!

[Terry Taplin🚰🏳️‍🌈🥑🌹🚲🚍✍️🏾 @TaplinTerry]

Huge congratulations to @MattHaneySF on his tremendous victory tonight.

It’s clear that exclusionary anti-housing forces hellbent on robbing generations of Californians have exhausted their relevance.

We will be a state that lives up to its values 🥂

[YIMBY Denver @Yimbyindenver]

We at YIMBY Denver pride ourselves in having a message that appeals to everyone, but it's sometimes important to tailor the message to the audience.

So, here’s a cheat sheet for how to speak our most important phrase in various dialects, a 🧵!

[Gill Pressman @PressmanGillian]

Great article on UC Berkeley crisis, an “object lesson in how impossible the housing crisis will be to solve if everyone is able to say no to building in their own backyard.”

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Berkeley the university is putting Berkeley the city at risk, Phil Bokovoy tells @AnnieLowrey about his effort to stop the college's population growth. https://t.co/nUi1Yz7gKj

[Terry Taplin🚰🏳️‍🌈🥑🌹🚲🚍✍️🏾 @TaplinTerry]

In 1970, Governor Reagan signed the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). It turns out, you can absolutely judge this book by its cover. THREAD: 1/

[Gill Pressman @PressmanGillian]

This is what building power looks like

[Urban Environmentalists @UrbanEnviroCA]

Sign our petition with @yimbyeastbay @HACdotorg @MSHNBerkeley @gersh17:

https://t.co/rj6yUYKiFt

[Garry Tan @garrytan]

I am matching $50,000 in donations to @Yimby_Law and hope you'll join me. (Tax-deductible 501c3 nonprofit)

They sue cities. When they win, they get the money back to sue more cities!

We need housing and we need it today. Yes, in my backyard

Donate now— https://t.co/br5KQT2g0h