State Senator Scott Wiener and Housing Politics - a Bibliography
Some of the academic and institutional research that went into the Mother Jones article "Getting Shit Done." If you have trouble surmounting a paywall on any of this, ping me and I'll see what I can do.
Adams-Schoen, Sarah J. “The White Supremacist Structure of American Zoning Law.” Brooklyn Law Review, vol. 88, no. 4, May 2023, pp. 1225–311, https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/blr/vol88/iss4/5.
Architectural Resources Group. City of Los Angeles: Historical Housing and Land Use Study. Department of City Planning, 20 Sept. 2024.
Barber, Jesse. “Redlining: The History of Berkeley’s Segregated Neighborhoods.” Berkeleyside, 20 Sept. 2018, https://www.berkeleyside.org/2018/09/20/redlining-the-history-of-berkeleys-segregated-neighborhoods.
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Chapple, Karen, and Jae Sik Jeon. “Big Tech on the Block: Examining the Impact of Tech Campuses on Local Housing Markets in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Economic Development Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 4, Nov. 2021, pp. 351–69, https://doi.org/10.1177/08912424211036180.
Christopher, Ben. “How Bad Is California’s Housing Shortage? It Depends on Who’s Doing the Counting.” CalMatters, 26 Sept. 2025, https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/09/california-housing-shortage/.
———. “Unprecedented Vote Shows Dems Fractured Over Housing Policy.” CalMatters, 30 Apr. 2025, https://calmatters.org/housing/2025/04/committee-chairs-housing-policy/.
Elmendorf, Christopher S., et al. “The Folk Economics of Housing.” Journal of Economic Perspectives, vol. 39, no. 3, Aug. 2025, pp. 45–66, https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.20241428.
Freemark, Yonah. Achieving Housing Abundance Near Transit. Terner Center for Housing Innovation, UC Berkeley, 26 Sept. 2023, https://ternercenter.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Housing-Abundance-Near-Transit-Freemark-2023-final.pdf.
———. “Zoning Change: Upzonings, Downzonings, and Their Impacts on Residential Construction, Housing Costs, and Neighborhood Demographics.” Journal of Planning Literature, vol. 38, no. 4, Nov. 2023, pp. 548–70, https://doi.org/10.1177/08854122231166961.
Gardiner, Dustin. “Meet Scott Wiener, the Man Confronting the Pelosi Dynasty.” Politico, 3 June 2024, https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/03/scott-wiener-pelosi-elections-california-00161159.
Gray, M. Nolan, and Aaron Eckhouse. “Everything You Need To Know About SB 79.” Arbitrary Lines, 12 Oct. 2025, https://mnolangray.substack.com/p/everything-you-need-to-know-about.
Horowitz, Alex, et al. “How Housing Costs Drive Levels of Homelessness.” Pew Charitable Trusts, 22 Aug. 2023, https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2023/08/22/how-housing-costs-drive-levels-of-homelessness.
Horowitz, Alex, and Ryan Canavan. “More Flexible Zoning Helps Contain Rising Rents.” Pew Charitable Trusts, 17 Apr. 2023, https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2023/04/17/more-flexible-zoning-helps-contain-rising-rents.
Kahn, Eli, and Salim Furth. Framing Futures: Pro-Housing Legislation Goes Vertical in 2025. Mercatus Center - George Mason University, July 2025, https://www.mercatus.org/research/policy-briefs/framing-futures-pro-housing-legislation-goes-vertical-2025.
Klein, Ezra. Ezra Klein Interviews Scott Wiener. 28 Apr. 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/28/podcasts/ezra-klein-podcast-transcript-scott-wiener.html. The Ezra Klein Show.
Lens, Michael C. “Zoning, Land Use, and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality.” Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 48, no. 1, July 2022, pp. 421–39, https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-030420-122027.
Levin, Matt. “California’s Most Controversial Homebuilding Bill Just Died. What Will Newsom Do Now?” CalMatters, 30 Jan. 2020, https://calmatters.org/housing/2020/01/newsom-sb50-dead-failure-ceqa-housing-crisis-shortage-failure/.
Lovett, Jon. The Abundance Debate Hits California. 27 Apr. 2025, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyUp-rgpSJg. Pod Save America.
McNeill, Donald. “Governing a City of Unicorns: Technology Capital and the Urban Politics of San Francisco.” Urban Geography, vol. 37, no. 4, May 2016, pp. 494–513, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2016.1139868.
Moore, Eli, et al. Roots, Race, and Place: A History of Racially Exclusionary Housing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, University of California, Berkeley, Oct. 2019, https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/rootsraceplace.
Muellbauer, John. “How Does the Housing Market Affect Wealth Inequality?” Economics Observatory, 28 Feb. 2023, https://www.economicsobservatory.com/how-does-the-housing-market-affect-wealth-inequality.
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———. “Mapping the Future.” Business Insider, 21 Feb. 2024, https://www.businessinsider.com/national-zoning-map-home-prices-down-real-estate-new-houses-2024-2.
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———. “The Real Estate Industry and the Politics of Zoning in San Francisco, 1914–1928.” Planning Perspectives, vol. 3, no. 3, Sept. 1988, pp. 311–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665438808725667.
———. “Urban Land Developers and the Origins of Zoning Laws: The Case of Berkeley.” Berkeley Planning Journal, vol. 3, no. 1, July 1986, pp. 7–25, https://doi.org/10.5070/BP33113187.
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Zeanah, John. Beyond Zoning: Hidden Code Barriers to Middle-Scale Housing. Center for Building in North America, Sept. 2025, https://www.centerforbuilding.org/publication/beyond-zoninghidden-code-barriers-to-middle-scale-housing.