Dear Friends --

Over the last seven days we have won some major victories in Sacramento:

AB 609 (Wicks), exempting infill housing from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), passed the Assembly Natural Resources Committee.
SB 79 (Wiener), making it easier to build multifamily homes near transit stops, passed the Senate Housing Committee in a very close vote.
SB 9 (Arreguín), removing barriers to local ADU construction, also passed the Senate Housing Committee.
AB 1154 (Carrillo), making it faster and easier to build ADUs and JADUs, passed the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 1308 (Hoover), streamlining the permitting process for homebuilding, passed the Assembly Local Government Committee.
AB 413 (Fong), requiring translation of key state housing guidelines and handbooks into the non-English languages commonly spoken in California, passed the Assembly Housing Committee.
AB 1061 (Quirk-Silva), targeting the abuse of historic preservation measures, also passed the Assembly Local Government Committee.

Not all the news is good. SB 677 (Wiener), which will make it easier to build duplexes and fourplexes, stalled in the Senate Housing Committee and will likely become a two-year bill (meaning it could get taken up in 2026).

We won these victories because of a strong grassroots mobilization from YIMBYs across California. We also saw just how important that activism is, given how close some of these committee votes were.

Our bills are up again in committee this week, and we expect stiff opposition again. Will you add your name? YES on AB 609!

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California YIMBY is a sponsor of AB 609 because it will make it easier to build more sustainable homes in existing urban areas – and help stop NIMBYs from abusing CEQA to block sustainable growth.

According to climate scientists, building more infill housing near jobs, schools, and amenities is the number one thing most California cities can do to reduce climate pollution. But the misuse of CEQA is blocking these types of homes in our cities – and is leading to more sprawl developments that increase pollution and congestion.

That doesn’t make sense. We must ensure that CEQA helps solve our housing shortage and tackle the climate crisis, and AB 609 will do just that.

This is a major bill – and as you might guess, we expect all-out opposition from the same forces who always work to kill new housing in existing communities. Will you help build the movement to fix CEQA?

Send a message to the Assembly: YES on AB 609!

Thank you so much for stepping up in this urgent moment.

Matthew

Matthew Lewis
Communications Director
California YIMBY

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