California 2026 elections and housing—a bibliography

Adams-Schoen, Sarah J. “The White Supremacist Structure of American Zoning Law.” Brooklyn Law Review 88, no. 4 (2023): 1225–311. https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/blr/vol88/iss4/5.

 

Ansell, Ben W. “The Politics of Housing.” Annual Review of Political Science 22, no. 1 (2019): 165–85. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-polisci-050317-071146.

 

Architectural Resources Group. City of Los Angeles: Historical Housing and Land Use Study. Department of City Planning, 2024.

 

Avrin, Marcy Elkind. “Some Economic Effects of Residential Zoning in San Francisco.” In Residential Location and Urban Housing Markets, edited by Gregory K. Ingram. National Bureau of Economic Statistics, 1977. http://www.nber.org/chapters/c4315.

 

Barber, Jesse. “Redlining: The History of Berkeley’s Segregated Neighborhoods.” Berkeleyside, September 20, 2018. https://www.berkeleyside.org/2018/09/20/redlining-the-history-of-berkeleys-segregated-neighborhoods.

 

Bloch, Sam. “Shade.” Places Journal, ahead of print, April 23, 2019. https://doi.org/10.22269/190423.

 

Christopher, Ben. “How Bad Is California’s Housing Shortage? It Depends on Who’s Doing the Counting.” CalMatters, September 26, 2025. https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/09/california-housing-shortage/.

 

------. “Unprecedented Vote Shows Dems Fractured Over Housing Policy.” CalMatters, April 30, 2025. https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/04/committee-chairs-housing-policy/.

 

Elmendorf, Christopher S., Clayton Nall, and Stan Oklobdzija. “Do Housing Supply Skeptics Learn? Evidence from Economics and Advocacy Treatments.” Preprint, SSRN, 2024. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4955033.

 

------. “The Folk Economics of Housing.” Journal of Economic Perspectives 39, no. 3 (2025): 45–66. https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.20241428.

 

------. “What State Housing Policies Do Voters Want? Evidence from a Platform-Choice Experiment.” Preprint, SSRN, April 29, 2024.

 

Freemark, Yonah. “Zoning Change: Upzonings, Downzonings, and Their Impacts on Residential Construction, Housing Costs, and Neighborhood Demographics.” Journal of Planning Literature 38, no. 4 (2023): 548–70. https://doi.org/10.1177/08854122231166961.

 

Gray, M. Nolan, and Aaron Eckhouse. “Everything You Need To Know About SB 79.” Arbitrary Lines, October 12, 2025. https://mnolangray.substack.com/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about.

 

Hankinson, Michael. “When Do Renters Behave Like Homeowners? High Rent, Price Anxiety, and NIMBYism.” American Political Science Review 112, no. 3 (2018): 473–93. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055418000035.

 

Hughes, Samuel. “The Great Downzoning.” Works in Progress, November 24, 2025. https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-great-downzoning/.

 

Johnson, Sydney. “San Francisco Congressional Hopefuls Debate AI, Billionaires and, of Course, Housing.” KQED, October 2, 2026. https://www.kqed.org/news/12102416/san-francisco-congressional-hopefuls-debate-ai-billionaires-and-of-course-housing.

 

Kilgore, Steven. “Los Angeles Land Covenants, Redlining; Creation and Effects.” LAPL Blog, June 22, 2020. https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/blogs/lapl/los-angeles-land-covenants-redlining-creation-and-effects.

 

Klein, Ezra, host. Ezra Klein Interviews Scott Wiener. The Ezra Klein Show. April 28, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-transcript-scott-wiener.html.

 

Levin, Matt. “California’s Most Controversial Homebuilding Bill Just Died. What Will Newsom Do Now?” CalMatters, January 30, 2020. https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/01/newsom-sb50-dead-failure-ceqa-housing-crisis-shortage-failure/.

 

Lindenthal, Thies. “Beauty in the Eye of the Home‐Owner: Aesthetic Zoning and Residential Property Values.” Real Estate Economics 48, no. 2 (2020): 530–55. https://doi.org/10.1111/1540-6229.12204.

 

Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority. “2026 Greater Los Angeles Homeless Count.” July 24, 2026. https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=10113-2026-greater-los-angeles-homeless-count-results-presentation.

 

Lovett, Jon, host. The Abundance Debate Hits California. Pod Save America. April 27, 2025. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyUp-rgpSJg.

 

Marble, William, and Clayton Nall. “Where Self-Interest Trumps Ideology: Liberal Homeowners and Local Opposition to Housing Development.” The Journal of Politics 83, no. 4 (2021): 1747–63. https://doi.org/10.1086/711717.

 

“Mayor Bass Executive Directive No. 1 (3rd Revised).” July 1, 2024. 

https://planning.lacity.gov/odocument/4bdff0d5-a458-4bcc-a8c5-451e4af45ea7/ED1_revised_memo_3.pdf.

 

Miller, Maya C. “Would-Be Pelosi Successors Debate Who’s More Progressive in San Francisco Congressional Race.” CalMatters, October 2, 2026. https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/congressional-district-11-wiener-chan-debate/.

 

Muellbauer, John. “How Does the Housing Market Affect Wealth Inequality?” Economics Observatory, February 28, 2023. https://www.economicsobservatory.com/how-does-the-housing-market-affect-wealth-inequality.

 

Owens, Darrell. “California Passes Mass Transit Upzoning.” The Discourse Lounge, September 15, 2025.

 

Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés, and Michael Storper. “Housing, Urban Growth and Inequalities: The Limits to Deregulation and Upzoning in Reducing Economic and Spatial Inequality.” Urban Studies 57, no. 2 (2020): 223–48. https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098019859458.

 

Rogers, Adam. “A Bid to Solve California’s Housing Crisis Could Redraw How Cities Grow.” Wired, February 7, 2018. https://www.wired.com/story/scott-weiner-california-housing-bill-cities/.

 

------. “Department of Getting Shit Done.” Mother Jones, February 2026. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/scott-wiener-defeated-californias-nimbys-can-he-fix-americas-housing-crisis/.

 

------. “In Ed Lee’s San Francisco, Utopia and Dystopia Are Neighbors.” Wired, December 13, 2017. https://www.wired.com/story/in-ed-lees-san-francisco-utopia-and-dystopia-are-neighbors/.

 

------. “San Francisco’s ‘Doom Loop’ Is a Warning for Every American City. Here’s How We Can Fix It — Before It’s Too Late.” Business Insider, July 16, 2023. https://www.businessinsider.com/san-francisco-doom-loop-fix-american-city-housing-transit-2023-7.

 

Scherman, David E., Christopher S. Elmendorf, and Joshua L. Kalla. “How Sociotropic Aesthetic Judgments Drive Opposition to Housing Development.” Preprint, November 25, 2025. https://osf.io/preprints/socarxiv/kz4m8_v2.

 

Soaita, Adriana Mihaela, Duncan Maclennan, and Kenneth Gibb. “The Social and Economic Consequences of Housing Wealth Inequalities.” Housing Finance International winter (2020): 27–35. https://eprints.gla.uk/227823.

 

Stacy, Christina, Chris Davis, Yonah Slifkin Freemark, et al. “Land-Use Reforms and Housing Costs: Does Allowing for Increased Density Lead to Greater Affordability?” Urban Studies, March 21, 2023, 004209802311595. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980231159500.

 

Talerico, Kate. “This Bill Has Been Hailed a ‘Landmark’ Victory for California YIMBYs. But It Only Narrowly Escaped Defeat.” East Bay Times, October 3, 2025. https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/10/03/wiener-assembly/.

 

Thompson, Derek, host. How Abundance Won in California. Plain English. July 3, 2025. https://www.theringer.com/podcasts/plain-english-with-derek-thompson/2025/07/03/how-abundance-won-in-california.

 

Weiss, Marc A. “The Real Estate Industry and the Politics of Zoning in San Francisco, 1914–1928.” Planning Perspectives 3, no. 3 (1988): 311–324. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665438808725667.

 

------. “Urban Land Developers and the Origins of Zoning Laws: The Case of Berkeley.” Berkeley Planning Journal 3, no. 1 (1986): 7–25. https://doi.org/10.5070/BP33113187.

 

Wollenberg, Charles. “The Man Who Helped Save the Bay by Trying to Destroy It.” Boom California, April 15, 2015. https://boomcalifornia.org/2015/04/14/the-man-who-helped-save-san-francisco-bay-by-trying-to-destroy-it/.

 

Yang, Joshua S. “The Anti-Chinese Cubic Air Ordinance.” American Journal of Public Health 99, no. 3 (2009): 440. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2008.145813.