I just met @jackconte.bsky.social at an airport and gushed about his YouTube channels. Completely forgot I was talking to the founder of patreon until a full ten minutes later. Also he was really nice.
Big thanks to Erin Baldassari, Erika Kelly, Joe and the @kqednews.kqed.org team for including housing in the conversation (as always!)
I hope to see a lot of new faces showing up to talk about housing affordability @yimbyaction.bsky.social
"Live Forum" interview, music and film screening with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social from @kqedforum.bsky.social and Thao from Thao & the Get Down Stay Down
"Back stage" of the library during opening remarks by SF Mayor Daniel Lurie
#nightofideas with @kqednews.kqed.org was a blast!
People really wanted to talk about housing affordability. I got to rant about all the things that normally get me kicked out of dinner parties. Prop 13, Parking requirements, Land Value Tax, SROs, the 21st Century Road To Housing Act...
Setting up for Night of Ideas with @kqednews.kqed.org Affordability Team in the SF Civic Center tonight.
Swing by and share your housing story, your affordability story, and pick up a few pointers on "How We Get By"
100 Larkin St, San Francisco CA
Our panel: 9:00pm
Night of Ideas: 7pm to Midnight
Okay, Microsoft Teams, I think I'm offended.
The only truly affordable housing in California is when you live rent-free in the minds of NIMBYs
Yes! The 9th Annual YIMBY Gala is April 17 at Terra Gallery in San Francisco. A night for the people who show up for housing!
Activist awards, good people, and the most fun you will have at a housing event all year.
Buy tickets here: yimbyaction.org/events/yimby...
Arizona - the NIMBYs are trying to carve out exemptions for vaguely defined "historic neighborhoods" - tell your state Representatives to vote NO on HB 2375.
actionnetwork.org/letters/say-...
"We don't oppose this affordable housing, but....." ;DDD
Thomas Keller, owner of The French Laundry, has a lot to say about affordable housing in Yountville — in a region powered by farmworkers and restaurant workers.
The people who harvest the ingredients and keep kitchens running shouldn’t be forced into long commutes to sustain Napa’s success. (1/2)
What's in the bill? Some good stuff. Including guidelines on how states should go about ADU adoption. bipartisanpolicy.org/explainer/wh...
Action Alert - email your representative with this easy link: actionnetwork.org/letters/pass...
The US House of Representatives will vote on the Housing for the 21st Century Act (HR 6644) later today. This is a landmark housing bill addresses multiple facets of our national housing shortage.
The webinar where HCD presented this guidance will be available sometime in the next couple of weeks but I wanted to get this up and out there early so everybody can brace themselves.
Ask me questions so that I make sure to cover answers in the video
Even if you don't want to get your hands dirty with SB 9, the logic behind this guidance also allows you to do:
1 Primary Home
+1 ADU up to 1200 sq ft or whatever the local ordinance allows
+1 Conversion ADU
+1 Detached ADU under 800 sq ft
+1 Junior ADU
The gist is that a homeowner could build:
SB9 Duplex (includes primary home and a second unit with SB 9)
+3 ADUs
+1 JADU with its own bathroom
that's a total of 6 units
And thanks to recent legislative wins, no occupancy requirement on the JADU with its own bathroom
The HCD is updating its guidance on ADU and SB 9 code - and the conclusion is shocking.
I'll make a short video breaking down the logic, but there are ways that homeowners can develop 6 units ministerially on a single family lot without owner occupancy requirements or lot splits.
It's working for me again too! WEEEEIRD
@cayimby.bsky.social getting this weird error when I try to go to your profile page
[sees another executive order related to housing]
Don't take the bait. Don't take the bait.
Don't make a political video. Don't make a political video.
There's a special move I see politicians do.
YIMBYs pass zoning reform.
Local elected finds ways to obstruct housing despite the reform. Then they say "This study shows that we didn't build enough and homes are still too expensive, so all that reform failed!"
What's this move called?
City of Sebastopol is looking allowing the separate sale of ADUs as starter homes (by adopting AB 1033) www.instagram.com/reel/DTIwqqY...
Write in to citycouncil@cityofsebastopol.gov to support it if you live, work or play in Sebastopol.
Love that the state is giving guidance to local agencies so quickly www.hcd.ca.gov/sites/defaul... pages 55-58 of the @california-hcd.bsky.social ADU handbook summarize new ADU rules that got adopted last year - VERY fast turn around, super helpful.
Is writing about NIMBYism particularly bad because there's constantly a fresh news story that you want to include about something obnoxious somebody is doing to obstruct housing?
holy @%!$. I think I am done with the first two chapters in my YIMBY book proposal.
Only took me 15 months 😅
www.how-to-adu.com/book-news-ry...
The landing page is still a work in progress. But you're getting in on the ground floor if you subscribe to email updates today ;D
The big new ADU law update for the year is here! Merrrrrry xmas. :)
www.youtube.com/@HowToADU/vi...
Interesting that a prohibition on retail alcohol sales in berkeleys zoning code was apparently causin a bit of a food desert! Couldn’t have grocery stores without booze sales in that district. Intriguing. Will have to read about that since it combines my current career and my former career in booze
