Rep. Robert Garcia plans to start pro-housing caucus to address national housing shortage
The YIMBY group would look at adjusting tax incentives, parking requirements and zoning regulations to encourage housing production.
Long Beach, like many other cities in California and across the country, is facing a housing crisis that is largely due to not building enough new homes. Most cities have lagged behind for decades, leaving a deficit that will require building thousands of new homes.
And although a supply oriented approach to the problem has been controversial in some places, cities are seeing results when it is implemented. In Minneapolis and Austin, rents fell after local governments ushered in new rules allowing the construction of more apartments.
Now, Rep. Robert Garcia, who represents much of Long Beach in Congress, plans to launch a pro-housing YIMBY (yes in my backyard) caucus in the next few weeks to try to tackle the issue at a federal level.
“I’m starting this because I’m a YIMBY myself,” Garcia said in an interview Thursday, adding that the national push for more housing is part of the reason as well.
