Lots of great papers in the new JPIPE symposium on the political economy of housing. Here's a quick 🧵 on a few of my favorites. 1/14 nowpublishers.com/PIP

"In L.A., at least 600 sites owned by faith-based groups in single-family neighborhoods are now eligible to build affordable housing, according to the city Planning Department." latimes.com/california/sto…

Builder's remedy projects should just go directly for the state for entitlements, as with Massachusetts' Chapter 40B. Why would expect cities already out of compliance with state housing to process a BR application in good faith? cp-dr.com/articles/build…

A low-slung commercial building turns into 42 homes over a cafe in Palms, Los Angeles. (2017➡️2022)

It is now legal to build an ADU throughout the entirety of Montana and a duplex in many single-family neighborhoods, thanks to the Montana Supreme Court throwing out the District Court's bad preliminary injunction ruling. Pro-housing policy wins!

Imagine reading through a zoning code here

The PCH is a death trap in its current form. Please consider taking 30 seconds to tell CalTrans you would like to see protected bicycle lanes and sidewalks added!

San Francisco socialists when laws fought for and passed by YIMBYs to increase height/density (AB1763) and streamline the permitting process (SB35) directly result in new 100% affordable housing

New: AG Rob Bonta, Gov. Newsom announce settlement with Elk Grove for rejecting affordable housing project. “Whether you’re Huntington Beach, Elk Grove or Pasadena, you have a duty to follow the state law,” Bonta says. “If you don’t we’ll sue you, we will take you to court.”

A row of low-slung commercial buildings turn into 67 homes over shops in Los Angeles. (2019➡️2024)

Our message to cities who refuse to follow California’s housing laws is simple: we will sue you.   And we will win.

This is like having a climate change denier heading the DEP. How can we expect to solve our affordability crisis if the leaders of our government don't acknowledge the fact that more housing drives down costs? I sincerely hope Dr. Bey will acknowledge this.

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We're building "Her" Los Angeles. (Rapid AI development and all.)

Good news for Pittsburgh landlords, bad news for Pittsburgh renters and future homeowners: your planning director doesn't believe in supply and demand. How could one be running a planning department and be so incurious amount the mountains of empirical research on this.

If this were legal in all residential zones, we wouldn't have a housing shortage. (And we would have much more diverse neighborhoods.)