Dear Friends --

This has been an unusually busy and newsworthy week, and California YIMBY is here to keep you updated with the latest news – and the most effective ways you can take action to get more homes built across our state.

New language went live on Thursday night confirming that the provisions of AB 609, our bill with Asm. Buffy Wicks that will reform CEQA and make it easier to build environmentally-beneficial housing in our cities, are still part of the budget deal with Governor Gavin Newsom.

It won't pass without your help. Will you call your Senator and urge them to vote YES on this historic CEQA fix?

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The revised deal is the product of hard work by legislative leaders, including Asm. Wicks, labor unions, and the YIMBY movement. It includes a clean exemption from CEQA for all market rate housing below 85 feet tall, prevailing wage rules for projects using the CEQA exemption that are 100% affordable or over 85 feet tall, and specific rules for building in San Francisco.

This is a good deal that will go a long way toward ending the abuse of CEQA and making it easier to build the housing California so urgently needs to tackle our affordability crisis. The Building Trades have also removed their opposition to this deal.

The deal has to be approved on Monday, but opponents are still mounting a desperate, last-ditch effort to try and undo this deal. They’re trying to get Senators to reject AB 130, the trailer bill that includes the deal and the provisions of AB 609.

If AB 130 doesn't pass, NIMBYs will still be able to weaponize CEQA to undermine the infill housing that is essential to tackling the climate crisis.

We can't let that happen. Many of you have called your Assemblymembers this week, and that helped get the revised deal done. But the vote is on Monday, and we still need your help right now to also show State Senators that Californians support this historic CEQA deal in the state budget – and want it to pass.

Will you call your State Senator and urge them to vote YES on AB 130?

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

Emily

Emily Jones
Campaign and Coordination Manager
California YIMBY

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