State Resources

Featured Report: San Mateo ADU Report (April 2026). This report analyzes the City of San Mateo’s ADU policies and permit process.

California’s Streamlining Laws (February 2025). This report dives into California’s new streamlining laws, shows how they’re working, and makes some recommendations for making them more effective.

Housing Element Zoning Deadline - Progress Report (April 2025). This report identifies jurisdictions that are failing to meet rezoning deadlines required by Housing Element law—deadlines that are essential for enabling new housing development.

Featured Blog Post: Fear Sells, Complexity Doesn’t: Lakewood’s wealthy minority overrides the democratic process to kill housing reforms (June 2026). This blog post discusses how Lakewood’s attempt to comply with state law was stymied by local NIMBYs, resulting in a repeal of the town’s new zoning reforms.

Lakewood’s Open Space Ordinance (May 2025). This report discusses taking action in Lakewood when anti-housing activists passed an ordinance so extreme it halted every project, including a family home renovation.

Featured Blog Post: Illinois has a Builder’s Remedy! (May 2025). This blog post on Illinois Builder’s Remedy and how local YIMBYs can use it as a tool to get affordable housing approved.

Other Blog Posts: Trump Administration Abandons Civil Rights Enforcement in Chicago Housing Discrimination Cases (September 2025). This blog post discusses how the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) abruptly withdrew from two major civil rights enforcement actions in Chicago.

Featured Report: The Pennsylvania Fair Share Doctrine: Excluding multi-family housing developments is already illegal in many Pennsylvania cities (September 2025). This report shows how municipalities cannot justify a total exclusion of basic forms of housing, such as multi-family.

Philadelphia’s Land Bank & Unlawful Discretion (October 2025). This report from YIMBY Law identifies the core legal failure at the heart of the Land Bank’s inefficiency: the unlawful injection of personal discretion by its Board into a process that, by city law, is meant to be objective and predictable.

Featured: 2026 Virginia Land Use Reforms Fact Sheets. YIMBY Law along with the Commonwealth Housing Coalition compiled these fact sheets for the recently passed 2026 land use and zoning laws.

• Faith in Housing

• Parking Reform

• By-Right ADUs

• Expedited Affordable Housing Approval

• Legalizing Manufactured Homes

Housing Targets Bill Review (November 2025). This report analyzes the 2025 VA Housing Targets Bill and compares it with other Housing Target programs nationwide.

Virginia 2025 Legislative Review (September 2025). This legislative review examines the housing-related bills brought forward in the 2025 Legislative Session.