Our Resources

Reports + Whitepapers

Featured Item: California’s Streamlining Laws, Report 2025

State Resources

Through our work in California and ongoing national expansion, we have compiled resources on various housing laws. This is an ongoing effort to grow and update our collection of resources, especially in states outside of California.

If you are unable to find information on a housing law or have a specific inquiry, email our research attorneys angela@yimbylaw.org and jack@yimbylaw.org.

Letters

We search Planning Commission meetings and City Council meetings all over the state for zoning and general plan compliant proposals for housing. We email the decision makers to ensure they are aware of their duties under state law, and to ensure we have standing to sue the locality in case they ignore the law.

This folder also includes letters we wrote in support/ opposition of proposed legislation. To see coalition letters we have either signed or organized, visit our Coalition Letters page.

If you know about a proposed general plan compliant housing development that you think needs help, you can write your own letter using our form letter or, submit the project using our form, or, do both!

Library

Featured item: How to Spot an HAA Case In the Wild

Please enjoy our library of law cases, research, articles and other resources.

This is an annotated index of many of the items in our online library, it is an ongoing effort. If you are looking for a specific author, topic, publication, or other keyword, search this document using ctrl-F on a PC or open apple-F on a Mac. If you want to add a note or comment, please feel free. Comments are enabled on this document.

Here is a link to the library folder itself. If you have anything you would like to add, or have a request for something we don’t have, email the librarian at sonja@yimbylaw.org.