YIMBY Action✓ Endorses“Robin is finishing his first term on the Council.”
2026 Midterm Partner Endorsements
Robin D. Lopez
Albany City Council (Rank #2) · Albany, CA
Backed byYIMBY ActionHousing Action Coalition
What the Guides Said
YIMBY Action✓ Endorses
Housing Action Coalition✓ EndorsesAbout Robin D. Lopez
Robin D. López was raised in San Pablo and Richmond, CA (Ohlone Land) and spent much of his youth working in Oakland and San Francisco. He has an academic and research background invested locally. López attended De Anza High School (Richmond, California) and graduated from Contra Costa College (San Pablo, California) with degrees in Mathematics(AS), Physics(AS), and Sociology(AA) . He transferred and graduated from San Francisco State University with a BS in Civil Engineering. López most recently completed graduate studies at San José State University in Water Resources Engineering, and also has 10 years of experience as a Researcher at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, working on several projects for the U.S. Department of Energy addressing subsurface technology and climate resiliency of ecosystems. Presently he is a Ph.D Candidate at the University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management.
From lopezforalbany.com
Robin D. Lopez on Housing and Abundance
“He is a resident of the UC Village, and has an interest in helping to improve housing opportunities and access so our friends and neighbors have confidence is housing security.”
“This plan provides a new framework within which new development projects can be built to meet Albany's housing growth needs and continue to provide space to meet the services and retail needs of the community.”
Also Endorsed
Aaron TiedemannYIMBY ActionHousing Action Coalition