Abundance - A Metropolitan Abundance Project Podcast

In this episode, California YIMBY research director M. Nolan Gray chats with Bill Fulton. If you’ve been paying any attention to California planning over the past 30 years, Bill likely needs no introduction. Among his many roles, he’s currently a Senior Advisor to PFM Management and Budget consulting Group and a Fellow at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at UC Berkeley. He’s also the autho...

In this episode, California YIMBY research director M. Nolan Gray chats with Luca Gattoni-Celli . Luca is the chief executive of YIMBYs of Northern Virginia, which just scored its first big win legalizing foruplexes and simplexes countywide in Arlington. In this episode, we discuss how a pro-housing coalition pulled off single-family zoning abolition in one of America’s richest suburbs, the ideolo...

In this episode, California YIMBY research director M. Nolan Gray chats with Jerusalem Demsas. Jerusalem is a staff writer at The Atlantic and a widely published author on housing and city planning, among many topics. In this episode, we discuss how she became a YIMBY, the importance of the freedom to move, and why DC builds so much housing—even it could build more. We’re joined this week by Calif...

In this episode, California YIMBY research director M. Nolan Gray chats with Chris Elmendorf. He’s the Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at the UC Davis School of Law and an expert on California housing law. In this episode, we take stock of where we’re at in the Regional Housing Needs Assessment process, explain tools like the builder’s remedy, and explore where we go from here. We're j...

In this episode, California YIMBY research director M. Nolan Gray chats with Sonia Hirt. Hirt is a professor of architecture and urban planning at the University of Georgia and the author of Zoned in the USA . In this episode, we talk about the current zoning reform push, how other countries do zoning, and what we still have to learn from Jane Jacobs.

In this episode, California YIMBY research director M. Nolan Gray chats with Alain Bertaud. Alain’s a Senior Fellow at the NYU Marron Institute for Urban Management, a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and a former principal urban planner with the World Bank, among many other titles. In the first half of this episode, we discuss the role of city plan...

In this episode, California YIMBY research director M. Nolan Gray chats with legendary parking guru Donald Shoup. Shoup is a distinguished research professor at UCLA and the author of The High Cost of Free Parking . We talk about some of the 2022 parking reform victories, the man behind the legend, and where we go from here.