Millions of Californians live in crowded and substandard housing, with high rent burdens, exposure to health risks, and multi-hour commutes. These problems are man-made. California’s housing shortage—and the affordability, environmental, and health crises it has caused—is the result of decades of deliberate policies to limit the supply of housing.
Building affordable, dense housing is currently illegal in the majority of California, but it doesn’t have to be. California YIMBY's mission is to change our housing and land use laws, to enable the building of millions of new homes in existing urban areas without displacing incumbent communities.
Join us! Together we can get California back on a path of broad-based economic prosperity and create vibrant, inclusive, and livable communities for everyone.