Vox, August 21, 2023, How Housing Activists And Unions Found Common Ground In California
Corey Smith, the new head of the YIMBY-aligned Housing Action Coalition, told Vox he thinks the leadership from The California Conference of Carpenters, and bringing in the other unions, “is perhaps the single most positive shift in California housing discourse, conversations, fights, and politics in the last 40 years.” It’s “such a big deal,” Smith continued, “because the single largest individual problem for homebuilding in California has been local discretion and CEQA and the Carpenters’ union basically said, ‘Hey, we’ll provide a political path to tackle this.’”
