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4.9 • 937 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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What if we told you that some of the biggest, most exciting, and potentially transformative victories in The War on Cars are being fought and won these days by people working on affordable housing? In this special Patreon-only episode of the podcast we are talking to one of those people -- Matt Lewis, communications director of California YIMBY. In the last few years, California YIMBY has launched an impressive barrage of legislation aimed at making housing more affordable by challenging the mid-20th century “California Dream” of single-family, automobile-dependent, suburban sprawl. Housing, transportation, climate, equity and inclusivity... For YIMBYs it’s all the same issue.

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0:00.0	This is not a five-year project. It's not really a ten-year project. It's about turning the
0:06.6	ship around of the last 75 years of really poor decision-making in urban land use.
0:12.1	And it's going to take the rest of this century for that
0:15.9	tree to bear all of its fruit.
0:17.8	But the thing that I think inspires us is looking around and saying like but that's achievable it is not actually
0:24.0	absurd to envision a United States that is substantially less dependent on the
0:29.9	car.
0:31.9	Hello and welcome to the War on Cars. I'm Aaron Napersack here with a special
0:38.4	Patreon bonus episode. Okay so what if I told you that some of the biggest victories in the war on cars are being won, not so much by bicycling and transit advocates or people and organizations focused on
0:53.6	transportation policy. Rather, some of the most exciting and
0:58.3	transformative developments in the war on cars these days are being pushed forward by people who are working on
1:05.0	affordable housing. In today's episode I'm chatting with one of those people,
1:10.4	Matt Lewis of California Yimbee.
1:14.0	Yimbee, of course, is an acronym that stands for Yes in my backyard.
1:19.0	And California Yimbee is the nonprofit organization that is fighting with pretty incredible success
1:27.0	to build more affordable housing in America's biggest and supposedly most progressive state.
1:33.0	Over the last few years, California Yimbi has driven the passage of a remarkable array of new laws that are finally making it possible to build multifamily apartment buildings near jobs and schools and transit.
1:48.0	They've ended the parking mandates that for decades compelled developers to build housing for cars instead of people,
1:56.5	and they're forcing some of the most exclusionary cities in the state of California
2:01.8	to build their fair share of affordable housing.
2:05.3	If you follow the California housing debate at a bit of a distance,
2:09.4	then you may have found yourself lost in this blizzard of legislation that seems to be constantly
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