Infill: A YIMBY Podcast

Laura sits down with Anthony Dedousis, Policy Director at Abundant Housing LA.

YIMBY Action's Laura Foote sits down with newly elected California State Assemblymember Alex Lee to chat about running for office and bringing a younger perspective on housing to the California State Assembly.

How can planners, advocates, public officials and urbanists advance the cause of racial justice? A recording of our recurring event, Making Urbanism Antiracist. Michael Lens, Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs joins Laura for a wonky-but-lively discussion about housing, planning, academia and the Black Lives Matter movement. Co-hoste...

Recording from a panel discussion with activists and advocates on their long-term visions of housing justice and how we get there. Four women leaders in housing share their sometimes intersecting and sometime divergent visions. Panelists: Gloria Bruce, Executive Director, EBHO Catherine Bracy, Executive Director, TechEquity Collaborative Noni Session, Director, East Bay Permanent Real Estate Coope...

A conversation with New York Times columnist and CBS analyst Jamelle Bouie about the history of exclusionary housing policy and an upcoming ballot measure to limit heights of new housing in San Mateo. Co-hosted by YIMBY Action and Housing Leadership Council of San Mateo. All proceeds from ticket sales went to the campaign against San Mateo's exclusionary zoning, which is on the ballot in November...

John Myers of London YIMBY and Sam Watling of Brighton YIMBY join Laura to talk about how they're advocating for change in England. It's a fascinating discussion of the structure of government and how they impact YIMBY strategies. Connect with the entire YIMBY Alliance in the UK!

Mayor London Breed's 2020 inauguration speech. Featuring highlights such as: "Frankly, I am tired of hearing about our 'housing crisis.' Crises are unpredictable; they happen suddenly, and policymakers usually try to avoid them. Our housing problems were entirely predictable. They are the result of decades of almost intentional under-building, and the decision decades ago to down-zone almost three...

More amazing speeches from the YIMBY Party Party. First up, Ernest Brown from the YIMBY Action Board. Then Matthew Yglesias celebrates the growth of the YIMBY movement. Finally, YIMBY Action Executive Director Laura Foote brings it home.

Elected officials at the YIMBY Party Party celebrate the pro-housing movement and share how important it has been for them. Amazing stories from Senator Scott Wiener, Senator Nancy Skinner, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks and San Francisco Mayor London Breed.

YIMBY Action goes to DC to advocate with Up For Growth on several new housing bills being introduced in Congress. Hear from Up For Growth ED Mike Kingsella, Congressman Denny Heck (@RepDennyHeck) and Congressman Scott Peters (@RepScottPeters). Read more about the Build More Housing Near Transit Act and the Yes In My Back Yard Act. Take action by emailing or tweeting your Senator and Congressperson...

"Internet personality" Matthew Yglesias comes on the YIMBY Podcast! Laura and Matt chat about the presidential candidate housing platforms, the role of the federal government in housing, and Housing Twitter. Join Matt October 10th in San Francisco for the annual YIMBY Party Party! Buy your tickets now: party.yimbyaction.org

Ruth Bernstein, President & CEO of EMC Research comes on the YIMBY Podcast to chat about housing data and the changing public opinions across California about the housing crisis.

Guest David Klion (news editor at Jewish Currents, writer The Nation, and internet dude) discusses YIMBY and image problem with the Left. We half-start every argument and never get to that very specific point you wish we had made.

In this special episode, we talk to YIMBYs from all over the state who came to San Francisco for the California Democratic Convention. In addition to regulars Laura Foote of YIMBY Action and Scott Feeney, this episode features: Rachel Stevens, YIMBY Democrats of San Diego / California YIMBY, Jose Trinidad Castaneda, Orange County, California Democratic Party delegate, Alfred Twu, Berkeley artist a...

Guest Randy Shaw, author of Generation Priced Out and blogger at Beyond Chron, comes on the pod to hash over SB 50 and the politics of YIMBY. What is dead may never die.

In this short episode we sit down with Senator Scott Wiener in his State Capitol office on the eve of battle. You, mighty YIMBY Army, are being called to arms. TO ARMS! Email now: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/email-your-state-reps-to-support-sb-50

Berkeley councilmembers Lori Droste and Rashi Kesarwani join us to discuss their effort to expand missing-middle housing options. We also talk opportunity and belonging in the Bay Area. And a fun side story: UC Berkeley students' recent advocacy for housing at 2190 Shattuck, at what Laura describes as the "F*ck a View hearing," after a memorable student sign. (The councilmembers want you...

Can you effectively advance urbanist policy without doing "politics"? We discuss with our guest from Washington, DC, Alex Baca, who writes and works for the Coalition for Smarter Growth. Alex previously ran a bikeshare system in Cleveland, and before that worked for the Washington Area Bicyclist Association and Washington City Paper. Along the way, we get into DC's Congressionally set he...

We chat with outgoing Supervisor Katy Tang, of the Sunset District, about her work on the board, and particularly Home-SF, the local density bonus. Also the recently passed Central SoMa Plan. Home-SF Sunset YIMBYs should join Westside = best side!

Senator Scott Wiener's newly unveiled More HOMES Act, or Senate Bill 50, would unban apartments near transit and in high-opportunity areas. It's the new SB 827, but it's more ambitious, has clearer and stronger anti-displacement protections, and has racked up new supporters, including the building trade unions and many local officials. We invited Senator Wiener's policy lead on housing and transpo...

Elections happened, and by now it's well known that the YIMBY supervisor candidates in San Francisco took a bruising. But there's good news from the East Bay, statewide, and elsewhere on the ballot. Darrell Owens from East Bay for Everyone joins Laura and Sam to talk about what just happened and what's next. Joe Eskenazi's article on YIMBYs and the election CASA: The Committee to House the Bay Are...

Sonja made hand-drawn posters for an extremely niche issue in the Tenderloin. Meanwhile in the Sunset, the race is polling as a four-way tie. What?! And Laura gets phone-banked for a non-YIMBY-endorsed campaign that... can't think of any actual talking points. All this and more as we prepare for Election Day, with Laura Foote, Sam Moss, and special guest Ben Libbey, who's working as the volunteer...

Guests Michelle Parker and Victor Olivieri discuss San Francisco's transportation challenges getting kids to public schools and City College's plans for its land, including housing on Balboa Reservoir. Michelle and Victor have been endorsed by YIMBY Action in their campaigns for School Board and College Board respectively. Michelle Parker for School Board Victor Olivieri for City College Board Sha...

California wants homelessness and transportation to get better, but isn't always willing to pay for it. That's why in San Francisco, we have our work cut out for us to pass local Prop C , which would tax businesses making over $50 million to provide a permanent funding source for supportive housing, mental health services and shelters. At the beginning of the program, Nick Kimura ( Eviction Defens...

On Oct 10th, Mission YIMBY held an event at the Brava Theater with Richard Rothstein, author of The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. It was a powerful lecture on the racist history of housing in the United States, with opening remarks from organizer Steven Buss and Mission Housing's Sam Moss. The Color of Law documents how American cities, from San Franci...