June 29, 2023
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Local Updates
Greenlining Institute Just Future Summit: Registration for Greenlining’s annual summit, happening in Oakland in October, is open.
Learn more and register here: https://greenlining.org/just-future-summit-details/
Spotlight: Emily Jacobson, California YIMBY Education Fund Fellow
Los Angeles: The Dysfunctional Metropolis: The process that the City of Los Angeles uses to approve multi-family housing proposals within its jurisdiction is a recipe for political corruption and high housing costs, and should be reformed to achieve broad housing affordability, according to a new report out today from the California YIMBY Education Fund. Emily Jacobson prepared this report to as the inaugural research fellow for the California YIMBY Education Fund.
Click here to read the full report: THE DYSFUNCTIONAL METROPOLIS: Reforming Los Angeles’s Land Use Planning and Entitlement
Legislation
SB 684 (Caballero): SB 684 will increase homeownership opportunities by making it faster and easier to build smaller, naturally more affordable homes. The impetus for this bill was the conversations with this housing working group!
The factsheet, one-page explainer, and template support letter for this bill are available here.
Please reach out to Adam Briones (abriones@ccbuilders.org) if you have questions or are interested in supporting.
AB 1335 (Zbur): AB 1335 requires local governments to report on their progress building new housing within the areas identified in their Sustainable Communities Strategies as priorities for denser, infill housing and requires that the housing production targets in an SCS be aligned with regional RHNA numbers.
Please reach out to Scott Epstein (scott@abundanthousingla.org) if you have questions or are interested in supporting this bill.
SB 423 (Wiener): SB 423 permanently extends and expands SB 35, to help California continue to build affordable and mixed-income housing faster, cheaper, and where it’s needed most.
Please reach out to Emily (emily@cayimby.org) if you have questions or are interested in supporting.