No permits for kitchen remodels. No powerwall installation. Nothing.
For now, officials are still issuing building permits as normal while the city appeals the decision, but that could change as the legal process moves forward, said Andrew Slocum, co-owner of Urban Development Company, in the Times report. If that happens, pressure from businesses could force the city to change tack.
“The minute someone goes in there and they do not issue permits, it’ll be wildfire through the developer, the builder, the contractor community,” Slocum said. “It’s unheard of.”
Public support is building for changes to zoning codes and other laws that have dominated American housing policy for decades and restricted new development.
A new Pew Charitable Trusts poll shows broad public approval for several policy initiatives that would make it easier to build new housing, especially apartments.
In Minneapolis; Portland, Oregon; New Rochelle, New York; and Tysons Corner, Virginia, new zoning rules that allow more housing have helped slow rent growth, according to a study this year by Pew Charitable Trusts. Towns and cities in the same metro areas that did not reform zoning laws generally saw faster rent growth. While rents nationwide grew 31% nationwide from 2017 to 2023, rents in those four cities all grew under 5%, according to the study.
my favorite role as a YIMBY is going to my local Nextdoor threads that complain about new housing, and exclaim how excited I am for the new housing. and then let the comments explode.
We have a major nimby protest near my farm. Newsom approved $53m for rehab and/or homeless shelter facilities in local neighborhoods. They want put a $5m 30 bed facility, on a narrow country road, 3 miles from my farm. On agricultural rural zoned land with no sewer, water, gas infrastructure. We only have wells and septic and propane…
I personally am neutral. But anti growth policies over the last 50 years have made development almost impossible, even for good cause … there isn’t enough infrastructure… let alone adequate roads or public transportation. These inmates, patients or “guests’ will be basically prisoners… no way to get around without cars that they don’t have…and are unable to drive anyway.
It’s supposedly going to be run by a Native American group from the San Joaquin delta… hardly a local organization…
These facilities will probably full of people forced to be there.
Newsom is allowing people to be forcibly put into facilities. The problem is there not any available… so they are trying to build them. Will take years and lots of nimby protests to overcome.
They are trying to sugarcoat the use of these facilities. But we all know the code word disabled means they are for drunks, drug addicts and homeless people that have been rejected by their families…
agree with you @Elt1 . we need more housing where services exist, like Downtown Dublin (I say this tongue in cheek - I love Dublin but we are strip mall heaven). Build some apartments, condos, let the old people move out of their houses but stay in Dublin so young families can move in.
Interesting but very telling. Yimbies are in areas nobody wants to live… desirable areas pull up the drawbridge to keep from getting overpopulated. How many people are flooding into those Midwestern third tier cities… kinda like our border crisis …
People are flooding into the US from less desirable areas
Maybe the best way to solve housing issues to give incentives to people to live in the Midwest. Like Russia did to get people to move to Siberia. Now that the subsidies are gone, Siberia is depopulating.
Minnesota is having a heat wave. Average January high is 24, colder than Moscow…
Global warming is the solution. If the Midwest warms up 20 degrees, people will start flooding in there…
Average January high is 24, colder than Moscow…