Did you know SF YIMBY is one of many YIMBY Action chapters across the country? Additionally, SF YIMBY has neighborhood-level chapters that are doing lots of cool stuff. Come chat about it at the...

YIMBY In-Person Happy Hour!

Hosted by local neighborhood chapter Northern Neighbors, we're bringing back the tradition of happy hours! You must be vaccinated, but you don't have to drink to have a good housing time.

WEDNESDAY, DEC 8 at 6PM

Outdoor Patio at Campus

2241 Chestnut

Campus only serves drinks, so bring your own food.

RSVP Here

Sign the Petition & Give Public Comment

As we learned with the 500 homes on a parking lot rejected by the Board of Supervisors last month, more process means more opportunities for NIMBY Supervisors to kill desperately needed housing.

Mayor London Breed has introduced legislation recommended by YIMBY Action that will help speed up the production of housing on land currently used for cars. This bill will be up at Planning on Thursday, Dec 9th. The exact timing of the hearing is uncertain, but SF YIMBY members will be organizing on the Slack to give Public Comment in support!

Sign the petition, share it everywhere, and join us this coming Thursday to speak up for housing at the San Francisco Planning Commission!

Add your Name to Support for Cars to Casas!

CANDIDATE MEET & GREETS

Assembly District 17, the East Side of San Francisco, will be voting for a new State Assemblymember in 2022. Meet the candidates and show how big the pro-housing movement is at these upcoming candidate events with YIMBY Action Chapters:

Meet Assembly Candidate Thea Selby

Meet Assembly Candidate Matt Haney

Catch up on Fourplexes Everywhere

Multiple San Francisco Supervisors have put forward competing legislation to legalize building four unit buildings across San Francisco. Here's the tea.

The first Fourplexes Everywhere, put forward by Supervisor Mandelmen, legalizes fourplexes but doesn't go quite far enough to ensure a streamlined permitting process. Without more streamlining, it's likely that these projects would face insurmountable NIMBY nonsense when they're actually proposed. We're recommending some amendments, but generally supportive of the concept. Send an email to support this concept.

The second Fourplexes legislation, put forward by Supervisor Mar, legalizes fourplexes, but saddles them with affordability requirements that will ensure this program is Dead On Arrival. By requiring these tiny projects to also provide on-site affordable housing, Mar gets to look like he supports housing while putting forward a program doomed to produce very little.

The third, put forward by Supervisor Safai, legalizes fourplexes, saddles them with affordability requirements and offers a small carrot of streamlining. While the affordability requirements are slightly better than Mar's proposal, this legislation suffers from the same problems, creating a program that won't work in practice while giving politicians the opportunity to argue publicly that they're supporting affordable housing. The proposal has been widely panned by activists, architects and small builders.

San Francisco YIMBY hopes that the board will pass legislation that legalizes fourplexes with a process that ensures they actually get built! But we're also not going to just hope. A strong coalition is already in talks about a Fourplexes Ballot Initiative, just in case the Board can't get it together.

Stay tuned and follow the gossip on the members-only YIMBY Slack!