{"id":48216,"date":"2025-11-11T15:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/48216\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T15:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T15:29:07","slug":"los-angeles-preps-for-building-boom-after-yimby-housing-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/48216\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Preps for Building Boom After YIMBY Housing Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"

When California Governor Gavin Newsom signed State Bill 79 into law on Oct. 10, supporters of the pro-housing \u201cYes In My Backyard\u201d movement celebrated a legislative victory that had been called a YIMBY \u201choly grail<\/a>.\u201d By legalizing multistory apartments near transit stops in the state\u2019s most urbanized counties \u2014 and crucially, in areas formerly zoned for single-family homes \u2014 SB 79 was hailed as a huge step toward closing California\u2019s longstanding affordable housing gap<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Along with recent reform of the state\u2019s infamous project-delaying environmental review law, CEQA<\/a>, SB 79 boosters like the advocacy group California YIMBY<\/a> say that the legislation can unlock the promised goal of \u201chousing abundance<\/a>\u201d when it comes into effect on July 1, 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When California Governor Gavin Newsom signed State Bill 79 into law on Oct. 10, supporters of the pro-housing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[387,7,9,8,10555,10557,4019,6052,721,47,5409,21892,1301,1621,14287],"class_list":{"0":"post-48216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-cities","13":"tag-citylab","14":"tag-construction","15":"tag-design","16":"tag-law","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-policy","19":"tag-public-opinion","20":"tag-regulation","21":"tag-scott-wiener","22":"tag-solutions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}