YIMBY Law fights for Free Speech, and we win (opens in new tab)

At the very end of 2025, the day after Christmas, we got a strange email. Apparently, an attorney representing NIMBYs in Rancho Palos Verdes had reported YIMBY Law to the CA State Bar, complaining that we are engaging in the practice of law without a license. Their evidence is the letter we sent to RPV telling them they had to implement their housing element. We send hundreds of letters like this, all over California. For the past decade, it has been core to our strategy of enforcing state la...