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YIMBYtown 2022: Fair and Sustainable Cities, spotlighted major affordability wins and brought successful housing campaign leaders to share ideas and lessons for local and statewide action.
YIMBYtown 2022 occurred April 11–13 in Portland, Oregon, the fourth annual gathering (after some COVID delays) of “Yes in My Back Yard” (YIMBY) community leaders, organizers, planners, policymakers, educators, and housing providers eager to share resources and strategies for building more affordable, sustainable, and equitable communities.
This article is part of the series YIMBYtown 2022 The conversation shared below was part of the YIMBYtown 2022 conference, cohosted by Sightline Institute and Portland: Neighbors Welcome.* After all these great pro-housing policies get passed, who is going to do the actual implementation of building middle housing? Large-scale developers are not yet lining up … Read more
This article is part of the series YIMBYtown 2022 The conversation shared below was part of the YIMBYtown 2022 conference, cohosted by Sightline Institute and Portland: Neighbors Welcome.* Oregon, Washington, and California each have laws on the books to mandate that municipalities explicitly plan for and make space for new housing. Yet implementation is tricky, … Read more
This article is part of the series YIMBYtown 2022 The conversation shared below was part of the YIMBYtown 2022 conference, cohosted by Sightline Institute and Portland: Neighbors Welcome.* As reported in the New York Times, I was feeling triumphant when I opened YIMBYtown in April 2022. I was feeling triumphant because abundant-housing ideas and advocates … Read more
This article is part of the series YIMBYtown 2022 The conversation shared below was part of the YIMBYtown 2022 conference, cohosted by Sightline Institute and Portland: Neighbors Welcome.* Research says that to build low-carbon neighborhoods, we need to plan for regions filled with dense, walkable communities composed of abundant and affordable housing connected by frequent … Read more
