Author Archives: Jose Calderon

About Jose Calderon

Jose Zapata Calderon is Emeritus Professor in Sociology and Chicano/a Latino/a Studies at Pitzer College, Past President of the Latino and Latina Roundtable of the Pomona Valley and San Gabriel Valley, and a community-based sociologist, educator, author, and organizer.

California’s YIMBY and Abundance Movements for The Tech Oligarchs

This article reveals memos that exposes “the clearest picture yet of the political project behind California’s YIMBY and Abundance movements, a project funded by a small circle of Silicon Valley billionaires” …. whose funding comes “overwhelmingly from the tech industry … and credits California YIMBY with helping to dismantle equity groups, labor, and NIMBYs,”
… translated into concrete legislative fights that repeatedly placed California YIMBY alongside the state’s most powerful landlord and real estate interests.”

Continue reading →