This is disappointing and short-sighted. Before leaving in April, I spent five years helping grow and lead
@cayimby
--building YIMBY power, advocating for infill housing, and making building homes near jobs, transit, and community resources faster and cheaper. This is not that.
California YIMBY is excited about the potential of the East Solano Plan, not only for new homes, but for creating a template for growth that is aligned with our values—affordability; walkability; access to jobs, transit, and amenities; and sustainability.
The East Solano plan is just sprawl—the CA status quo dressed up with more money and marginally better marketing. Supporters speak about the project's "potential," celebrate its private funding, and claim that we won't be any worse off even if it fails.
Affordable housing is multi-unit housing!
#SB50
tackles exclusionary single family zoning and ensures California builds the housing all Californians need.
Current polling says the ballot measure has little chance of passing. YIMBY endorsements are unlikely to move the needle with Solano County residents. Politically, this endorsement won't make a difference to the project but may negatively impact our movement.
Why risk creating a political wedge inside the YIMBY movement at a time when our power is growing? New cities may be inevitable as CA grows, but where and how we build them matters. This particular project is comically ill-advised.
That ignores the cost to taxpayers and the risk to government coffers. We are on the hook for highway and road expansions, building and maintaining infrastructure, and recovery from climate-driven natural disasters and a collapsing insurance market.
California Forever & Flannery Associates is a cohort of billionaire investors from SV. That capital and creativity could do amazing things in Solano, including creating jobs, housing, and thriving communities in places like transit-connected Suisun City. Instead
Flannery & Associates doubled down on their Utopian City. They operated in secret (even during a Homeland Security investigation), sued and bullied local landowners, and have made BIG promises to residents that legal experts agree are largely unenforceable.
Come work with me!
@CAYIMBY
is growing and looking for passionate people who want to end the Housing Crisis.
1. Distributed Organizing Mgr
2. Executive Assistant
3. Digital Director
3. Research Director
4. Policy Director
5. Legislative Advocate
Finally, I love CAYIMBY and the work we have done. But I feel for the CAYIMBY staff today. For many, if not most, yesterday was likely a very hard day. Please give them some grace this week.
🎉🍾AB725 is on its way to the Governor for his signature!🍾🎉 Legalizing four-plexes in higher-income neighborhoods will create more affordable opportunities for working families to live near good schools and community services.
AB 725, which requires fourplexes as a part of high income housing plans, diversifying housing options and neighborhoods, passes to Governor Newsom!! Congratulations Asm
@BuffyWicks
!!! It’s been a pleasure to work with you and your staff on this bill. 🤝
It's been just over 100 days since I joined
@cayimby
. What an amazing group of talented and passionate people! Spend 10 minutes with them and you'll be a believer--yes, we CAN solve the housing crisis.
#California
is for everyone!
#morehomes
#PassSB50
The YIMBY movement's debate over the East Solano Plan is a positive reflection of our growth in both size and representation. It's messy but I'm 100% here for it, and I'm grateful to my movement colleagues who feel the same.
For years, Melissa and Robyn have worked tirelessly to end California's housing crisis. It's a bit rich to see a bunch of keyboard warriors call them NIMBYs when they've already done more for the cause than the trolls ever will. (3/6)
"They could've bought cheap land in Vallejo or just outside of it, or Sacramento, or along Capitol Corridor routes like Suisun City or Fairfield and made a 15-minute city viable instead of the middle of nowhere Solano" I would 100% live in a 15-min Suisun City.
The California Forever project is weird because theres a bunch of b Bay Area suburban / exurban sprawl projects happening that nobody cares about, including in solano. the only reason people even care about this one is because tech people are doing it.
BREAKING NEWS: California YIMBY Celebrates Housing Legislation: "The end of exclusionary, single-unit zoning in California is a historic moment," said
@hanlonbt
. READ MORE >>>
Grateful to have
@BuffyWicks
as my assemblymember and housing champion. Her bill
#AB725
(sponsored by
@cayimby
) passes the Senate! Properly implemented
#AB725
will create more naturally affordable 4-plex housing in high opportunity neighborhoods.
#CaliforniaIs4Everyone
Read Mayor
@michaeldtubbs
ode to hip-hop. "At its best, hip-hop is the art-form of modern-day griots, an articulation of the power of agency, hope against hope and a prophetic roadmap to better days."
#powerofmusic
BREAKING NEWS: Leading California environmental, climate groups endorse AB 1401: "Ending costly parking mandates is a necessary step toward slashing pollution and traffic in our cities."
READ MORE >>>
The CA
#housingcrisis
won't wait.
#COVID19
may be keeping us all at home, but the
@cayimby
team hasn't slowed down. With the support of technology, we're full steam ahead on policy research, legislative advocacy, and community organizing/education work.
#SocialDistancing
I live in the 'burbs and welcome affordable housing. The low-wage workers who deliver our groceries and care for our children & parents, deserve access to safe, abundant, and affordable housing. And they deserve it in EVERY community.
#exclusionaryzoningisracist
THANK YOU for standing up and sitting-in
@kasevirginia
! So proud of
@LWV
today as it opposed the
#Kavenaugh
nomination and defending our democracy. It's our mission. It's our legacy. It is a moral imperative. Wish I could have been there!
In California, we’ve grown accustomed to housing shortages, crushing rents, endless commutes, & escalating homelessness.
It doesn’t have to be this way. Check out
@cayimby
’s video exploring the roots of our housing crisis - and some solutions:
🎉Congrats🎉 to the city of
#Sacramento
for being the 1st city to receive
@California_HCD
Prohousing Designation, and a big shout out to
@SacYIMBY
for all they do to ensure abundant and affordable housing for all.🏘️
@cayimby
@louismirante
This was the plain jane Rockridge 4-plex where I resided over a decade ago. Nothing fancy but I could afford to to live close to BART, casual carpool, and the market hall while working for a small nonprofit.
Big should out to
@California_HCD
for investigating cities constraining housing production. Glad to see the Housing Accountability Unit holding cities accountable!
🚨Today, HCD’s Housing Accountability Unit sent a letter of inquiry & TA to
@sfgov
expressing concern that San Francisco’s actions are indicative of review processes that may be constraining the provision of housing.
1/4
It's official! I've joined the
@cayimby
team! It's long past time to end the housing crisis. We can start by giving Californians what they want; more housing near jobs and transit! CA is for everyone! Let's pass
#SB50
! Want to help? Sign up at
Join me on July 8th for a conversation with the talent behind The Banker! Register for more info on how to see the movie in advance. 60 years later, and the fight against discrimination in housing and access to credit continues!
The Banker is the true story of two Black entrepreneurs that challenged housing discrimination and racism in the 1960’s.
We’re sitting down with the filmmakers on July 8th to talk about the film and the continued fight for housing integration.
RSVP:
Thank you Speaker
@Rendon63rd
for appointing my Assemblymember
@BuffyWicks
as Housing Chair. She is a perfect choice to lead the Assembly's efforts to end California's housing shortage and affordability crisis. Excited to see more housing reform in the coming year!
So grateful for another term serving the
@LWV
membership, as we fight for the survival of our republic. Join us in the fight to expand voting rights, protect our imperiled democracy, restore women's bodily autonomy, and so much more.
#makingdemocracywork
#womenpowerdemocracy
Welcome back,
@MelissaBreach
! Melissa will serve on our 2022-2024 board of directors. She previously served eight years as executive director for
@LWVC
. We look forward to her leadership!
Learn more about Melissa 👉
Thank you
@LWVC
for joining the
#SB50
coalition! For 50 years the League has been advocating to increase the supply of safe, decent, and adequate housing for all Californians, including acting at all levels of government for the provision of affordable housing!
#morehomes
GREAT NEWS: The
@LWVC
just endorsed SB 50, the
#MoreHOMES
Act!
The coalition to tackle our housing crisis head on grows everyday—will you follow
@LWVC
’s lead by signing up to volunteer today?
#FOCE2019
is a packed house. Election officials, advocacy groups, community organizers, voters, and researchers working together to drive more engagement & more representative participation in our
#democracy
.
I've got chills. The only standing ovation of the
#LWVC2019
Convention comes after
@LWV
's
@KaseVirginia
challenges us to acknowledge and OWN the white supremacy that permeated the suffrage movement, the founding of the League.
#walkthetalk
A big shout-out to the Santa Clara Board of Supervisors and all the YIMBY's and pro-housing activists who showed up lend thier support.
#SB50
#MoreHomes
California is for everyone!
@cayimby
Great to be there as the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors voted to support SB 50, the More HOMES Act, with requested amendments
I’ll let this letter from Palo Alto’s
@adrianfine
speak to why this is so important & exciting
With leagues across the country ran by women, for women
@LWV
has created the blueprint for empowerment within the voting world for women! Today we're sending them light and love for their hard work and continuing to honor women for
#WomensHistoryMonth
and beyond!
Join
@CAYIMBY
and
@HACdotorg
in supporting
@AsmGrayson
's AB 602: a bill to make sure smaller, more affordable homes pay smaller, more affordable impact fees.
Join us by signing your name today!
“We are the power of WOMEN, immigrant women, LGBTQ women, young women, and those who stand with us!" Virginia Case
@LWV
new CEO.
#lwv2018
#LWVwomenpower
#LWV2018
conventioners, do you want more impact from your website? Visit the
#MyLO
table at the wares market or attend the orientation Friday at 8:45pm in the Waldorf room. Our developer and customer service team are on site!
@LWVC
Day 1 of
#YIMBYLobbyWeek
! Today, YIMBYs and pro-housing allies from across California are meeting with lawmakers to talk about California’s housing shortage & affordability crisis -- and how to end it 🏘️🏙️🏘️
RT or comment with the pro-housing bills you want passed! this year!
Listening to
@DoraRose
@cavotes
challenge the notion of California as an elections Nirvana when, despite the lack of voter suppression, our elections/democracy are so profoundly unrepresentative.
#VotersChoiceAct
is one good strategy to close participation gaps.
#FOCE2018
African Americans have about 60% of the income of whites, but only 7% of the family wealth. That can be directly attributed to racist federal housing policies from the mid 20th century -- Richard Rothstein
#ColorOfLaw
@cayimby
Good morning
#LWVC2019
Convention Attendees! Welcome to
#Pasadena
! Registration opens at 9:30am and *Let’s Talk About Power: Exploring Race, Identity Formation, and Organizing* with
@pakouher
(sold out) starts at 10:30 in the Plaza Room.
Leaguers, If you spot
@LWVC
Deputy Director
@DoraRose
wandering the halls of
#LWVC2019
Convention today, wish her a Happy Birthday! I'm coming at you with all the carbs Dora!
The pro-housing movement is growing EVERY day! Welcome the newest
@cayimby
team
#YimbyInlandEmpire
! The Inland Empire has some of the fast economic growth in the state and they need
#MoreHomes
Please welcome
#LakeishaBarrett
and
#YIMBYInlandEmpire
to our growing grassroots movement! Stay tuned for their Housing Townhall & Resource Fair on 2/22/20, where folks can access resources with rent, buying, and even free credit repair.
#SB50
#MoreHOMES
#YIMBY
-IE
Packed 🏠 at
@Schools1stCA
Core Leaders Training in West Oakland. This November, we will close the corporate loophole and restore $11 Billion annually to local connectors for schools and critical services!
#SaturdayMorning
worthy.
@LWVC
Getting arrested sucks, but it's a small price to pay to protect voting rights. Sorry I couldn't be there in person
@KaseVirginia
, but the rest of us can help by emailing our Senators and urging them to pass the
#ForThePeopleAct
🗳️
@LWV
@LWVC
Voting is a central part of our Democracy
@JoeNBC
but it is not ALL of our democracy. Voting alone won't reverse millennia of women's oppression. So while we do the heavy lifting on that, don't tell us at what volume we should speak or when it's time for us to move on.
Don’t yell at senators, don’t shout at people in restaurants, don’t rage on about past votes.
1. REGISTER
2. VOTE
3. GET YOUR FRIENDS TO VOTE
You want to change Washington?
You get your chance in 32 days.
#Vote
Hey
@CASenateDems
@SenateRepCaucus
, please Vote No on
#AB84
and Stop Special Interests from Buying Votes. We have strong campaign finance laws, let's not turn them back a decade.
What went wrong in California from the 70s-90s is largely what is going wrong in the
#US
today...
#racism
got the best of us. Just when we needed to focus on the economy we choose to blame immigrants & young black youth for everything.
@Prof_MPastor
#LWVC2019
@Rendon63rd
, Californians need more affordable homes.
Please
#FreeSB1120
and permit a vote on a bill that rejects the exclusionary policies of Trump and the McCloskeys in favor of a more inclusive and affordable California!
Yeah, we want to get tough on homelessness [change land use and zoning regs so it’s legal to build multifamily, affordable, and/or permanent supportive housing by right across the city]
This morning
@LWV
called for the immediate removal of President Donald Trump from office. The President incited a mob of domestic terrorists to overthrow the election and preserve his own power. He is an immediate and present threat to our country, our citizens, & our democracy.
We lost an absolute giant of a woman yesterday. I'm heartbroken at the loss of my colleague, friend, and co-conspirator. A tireless advocate for women & democracy; our world is darker and colder, without her fire. Rest in power Deb. We promise to
#KeepOnKeepingOn
🙏
It's with profound sadness that the League announces the passing of our esteemed president, Dr. Deborah Ann Turner. The staff, board, & Leagues from across the country mourn this loss, & our thoughts are with Dr. Turner’s family during this difficult time.
The
@LWV
has launched our new Legal Center. Learn what we're doing to defend and expand voting rights & our democracy across the country.
#makingdemocracywrk
Thank you
@DelaineEastin
for your opposition to
#AB84
and inspiring others to act! More money is the last thing
#California
elections need. I hope everyone calls your Senator today! For anyone who needs more info,
@LWVC
summary is here:
The vote has still not taken place on
#AB84
in the senate. Please call all state senators today and state your opposition. Let’s fight for a government of, by and for the people. Phone numbers here:
#CampaignFinanceReformNow
#LWV2018
conventioners, stay up late this Friday and join us for the
#MyLO
caucus tonight at 8:45pm in the Waldorf Room. We'll be taking about how to drive more traffic and more engagement!
As many of you know, FoCE closes as a nonprofit this month. This is our last post. Before we go, FoCE Staff – Astrid Ochoa, Katy Flaherty and Lupe Flores – want to express our deep gratitude for your partnership. It has been a job of a lifetime!
I <3 the
@LWV
value statement "We believe in the power of women to create a more perfect democracy." Women must have PARITY in political/civic life to right our democracy.
#LWV2018
#LWVwomenpower
Loved getting to celebrate the launch of a new clearer, simpler, plain language voter registration card at the
@CASOSvote
office!
#California
is making it easy to register and easier to
#vote
#democracy
.
“For many people in California a complicated voter registration form is an impediment to participation.” LWVC Executive Director
@MelissaBreach
joined
@CASOSvote
and
@LACountyRRCC
today to unveil new confusion-free voter registration forms.
#RegisterToVote
So grateful to
@AsmChrisWard
and all the heroes who cast aye votes on
#AB1955
! Thank you for protecting the health, safety, & privacy of students. To those who spouted bigoted unhinged rhetoric in opposition, you are putting our young people's lives at risk.
I’m relieved that
#AB1955
is now on its way to
@CAgovernor
. I want to thank each and every person who showed up and chose to be vulnerable while sharing their personal story as this legislation passed through multiple committees and was voted on in the Assembly and Senate. I want
"The
#US
is currently having it's Prop 187 moment"...
@Prof_MPastor
. California values have radically changes in 20 years, can that happen across the country? And how?
#LWVC2019
At
#lwv2018
listening to
@RosieRios
43rd US Treasurer. "We didn't talk about having it all. We didn't talk about work life balance. We talked about the economy"
@elvislevel
@mattyglesias
@hanlonbt
@LWVC
FYI,
@LWVC
has been advocating for sound housing policy since 1970. Our mission is to encourage informed and active participation in government, work to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.
#AllOurLane
Listening to
@veronicalucha
of
@CAcalls
at
#LWVC2019
. Our communities lose $11 BILLION every year because of the corporate loophole in Prop 13. Why should companies like Chevron be getting the protections designed to help our grandmother? Shouldn't! Support
@Schools1stCA
Take a minute to urge your State Senator to vote yes on
#AB2542
. The CA Racial Justice act (author
@Ash_Kalra
) prohibits racial discrimination in convictions & sentences and creates a process to challenge discrimination during and after trial.
@lwvc