State Senate: YES to Housing thru this Legislation
There are a number of housing bills that have passed the Assembly and are down the homestretch in the Senate!
We want our State Senators to vote on these housing bills because they align with our YIMBY platform:
Produce abundant housing now. We want homes people of all income levels can afford. We support walkable, bikeable communities by closely connecting where we live with where we work and play and go to school.
Protect renters and ensure that new developments occur without displacement and gentrification.
Respond to the climate crisis now by creating housing opportunities for Santa Cruz County's workforce near their jobs and schools.
Promote sustainable growth by increased density near transit, easier access to robust public transit, bicycle lanes, and protected pedestrian areas.
Advance policies that reduce permit processing times from months or years to weeks to build affordable homes now.
Promote equity through building affordable housing in all neighborhoods
Yes to People, Yes to Housing.
Vote YES on:
✅ AB 215 - Ensures cities’ General Plan Housing Elements have concrete actions and timelines for affordable housing.
✅ AB 345 - Lets ADUs be sold or conveyed separately from the primary residence to a qualified (low income) buyer.
✅ AB 602 - Level the playing field for smaller, more affordable, multi-family housing. Calculate impact fees based on size not number of units, so smaller individual homes pay smaller fees.
✅ AB 787 - Give cities the option to claim Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) credit for the conversion of market-rate units to deed-restricted affordable units (and address the shortage of low and moderate-income housing!)
✅ AB1401 - Ends costly parking mandates that can add as much as $80,000 per home to the cost of new housing. Parking mandates also exacerbate air and climate pollution by creating incentives for more driving.
✅ SCA 2 - Ends the racist prohibition of affordable housing in high opportunity communities by repealing Article 34.
Vote NO on:
🚫 ACA 7 (Oppose) - Empowers local NIMBYs to permanently shut their city to more housing, undoing years of effort by the state legislature and pro-housing advocates to end the housing shortage and affordability crisis.