[Editor’s note: In the heated debate over legislation to address the housing crisis in California—namely a bill by state Senator Scott Wiener, known as SB 50—many antigrowth advocates, affordability activists, longtime homeowners, recent renters, NIMBYs, YIMBYs, and others in between weighed in. An academic paper by MIT’s Yonah Freemark became a powerful part of that […]
Yonah Freemark
Yonah Freemark is Research Director, Land Use Lab at the Urban Institute.

