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Meet California’s Gen Z housing warrior

Kate Rodgers is rising leader in growing YIMBY movement
Barely a year out of college, Kate Rodgers has helped pass nine California laws that promote the development of student housing or help students struggling to find shelter. (Kate Rodgers)
Barely a year out of college, Kate Rodgers has helped pass nine California laws that promote the development of student housing or help students struggling to find shelter. (Kate Rodgers)
CoStar News
September 28, 2026 | 10:00 P.M.

Kate Rodgers likes to say the thing that got her into housing politics was the “radicalizing” experience of sharing a small, shabby, $6,000-per-month house with four other undergraduates in one of the near zero-vacancy neighborhoods near UCLA.

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