In her latest Substack, our Executive Director, Laura Foote, breaks down how housing legislation moves through Congress, why coalitions matter, and what it takes to turn housing reform into real policy. 🔗 Read the full piece here: https://yimbyaction.pulse.ly/zofn9ka6ic

🎉 YIMBY WIN! 🎉 In Palo Alto, housing advocates helped defeat an effort to limit the impact of SB 79, CA's transit-oriented housing law. Their advocacy kept focus on more homes near transit and more housing opportunities for future residents. When YIMBYs show up, we have a real impact. 🏘️

On Juneteenth, we honor the generations who fought for freedom, equality, and opportunity. Housing policy has too often been used to segregate and exclude. As YIMBYs, we're committed to building abundant, inclusive communities where everyone has the opportunity to thrive. Happy Juneteenth. ❤️🖤💚

Housing affordability isn't a personal failure. It's the predictable result of decades of not building enough homes. Help us change that. Learn how to get involved and become a YIMBY member here: https://yimbyaction.pulse.ly/l6jdh3bp70 🏘️

Imagine waiting 10 months just to get permission to start building housing. 🤯 A new article from @washingtonpost.com highlights how cities are cutting unnecessary delays with pre-approved housing plans and faster permitting processes. 🔗 Read more here: https://washingtonpost.pulse.ly/9fgft2s28r

🎉 Endorsement Win! 🎉 Congratulations to @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social on advancing to the Los Angeles mayoral general election. This is another big win for housing and everyone working to make LA more abundant. Thank you to our @yimbylosangeles.bsky.social chapter, who helped make it happen. 🏘️

🏘️🏘️ Announcing the Pro-Housing Policy Handbook 🏘️🏘️ A guide to specific policy reforms to make housing more abundant & affordable in your city. This guide is the culmination of years affordable housing advocacy by thousands of leaders across the country. link below🔗👇

What if one of the biggest barriers for homebuyers was your lot size? A recent @nytimes opinion piece highlights how minimum lot size requirements can make it harder to build starter homes and limit housing options for families. 🔗 Read the full article here: https://nytimes.pulse.ly/pa6slejtvx

A proposed apartment complex almost went unnoticed 🚨 No headlines or news coverage. Just a PDF buried on a local gov. website. Sometimes the biggest barrier to more housing isn't NIMBY opposition, it's knowing where and when decisions are made. Read more: https://yimbyaction.pulse.ly/g9azpvu9y2

Summer is beginning to heat up, and we have plenty of low-effort ways to stay involved this month. Do you have 5, 15, or even 20 minutes to spare? If so, then you, too, can support housing! 🧵

POV: You're a YIMBY and overhear someone say, "We support housing, just not here." 👀

We are happy to endorse @harrymd5.bsky.social for Maryland's 5th Congressional District because he supports expanding housing opportunities in the state. Fun fact: Harry became a volunteer firefighter to protect homes. Now he's ready to help put out the fire that is Maryland's housing shortage.🔥🏠

One of the misconceptions I hear a lot is that new housing improves affordability because it gets old and cheap eventually. Sure, but that’s not really it. New housing slows rent growth right away by creating new housing options so landlords risk losing tenants if they raise rents.

@yimbyaction.bsky.social 's local NOVA chapter Phoebe Coy's talking about their fabulous work and advocacy efforts #alx #yimby

Does building more homes make cities more affordable? In our newest episode of Infill, Sonja Trauss and Alex Horowitz of The Pew Charitable Trusts discuss "moving chains," Zillow data, and why cities that build more homes see slower rent growth. 🎧 Tune in now: https://apple.pulse.ly/zbpebqjog4

Happy Pride Month, YIMBYs! 🏳️‍🌈 This month, we celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and the advocates who have fought for fairness, opportunity, and access—including the right to safe, stable, and affordable housing. Everyone deserves a community where they can live, thrive, and belong.

After years of advocacy and NIMBY opposition, a 33-unit affordable housing development is moving forward in Evanston! The project will create affordable homes and showcase how faith-based organizations can help address the housing shortage. Read more here: https://evanstonnow.pulse.ly/nqgq1uzgmi

Zohran just cited Minneapolis, Austin, and Auckland as cities that lowered housing costs via upzoning certified ball knowledge, Auckland is a deep YIMBY cut

Illinois needs 225,000 new homes over five years, and @govpritzker.illinois.gov says the BUILD Plan can help. In a new op-ed, he argues the plan would legalize more housing options across Illinois. Lower costs require more homes. Read more about it here: https://muddyrivernews.pulse.ly/miom3xeupi

In this new video from @pewresearch.org, Titi shares how stable housing allowed her to reunite with her son after living in a shelter. Research continues to show that building homes of ALL KINDS expands access to housing for everyone. 🔗 Watch the full video here: https://pulse.pulse.ly/cflpocumax

I just wrote a @yimbyaction.bsky.social letter: Tell Your Representative: Vote YES on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

This feature from The Real Deal looks at @scottwiener.bsky.social, the rise of the YIMBY movement, and how pro-housing policies have become more mainstream. According to our Executive Director Laura Foote, “We’ve won the ideas battle.” therealdeal.com/magazine/may...

Spotted a @yimbyaction.bsky.social sticker at the Illinois State Capitol 👀 Its a sign that YOU should take action to support statewide housing reform: actionnetwork.org/letters/pass...

🚨 Congress could vote on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act as soon as TOMORROW! 🚨 Visit the link to tell your representative to support the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act TODAY: https://pulse.pulse.ly/1ngqhvn3lc

No single bill will solve America's housing crisis. But the amended 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act is a historic and meaningful step forward that will protect housing production, expand supply, and move Congress toward real action. Let's work together to get it passed now!

“Most of the churches we work with want to do affordability inherently, and overly prescriptive requirements only stand in the way of that. Virginia’s legislation marks a huge step forward.” @yimbyaction.bsky.social

In our latest episode of Infill, YIMBY Law’s Sonja Trauss sits down with @scottwiener.bsky.social to discuss how the housing crisis “clicked” for him, from defending tenants facing eviction to watching compliant projects get buried in process. 🎧 Tune in now: https://apple.pulse.ly/bzxqjo0c7a

Virginia just had its biggest housing reform session in decades. 5 pro-housing bills passed. 60+ partners. 75+ advocates. 26,000+ emails. This is what happens when YIMBYs organize to say YES to more homes. Read here-https://yimbyaction.pulse.ly/dpbubzivvo

New public comment strategy just dropped: ask the room, “Are we kinda bein’ pricks?” Read the full story here: https://wsj.pulse.ly/ddqaj3axft

Evening, folks! It’s taken 4 years and more than a dozen meetings to get here, but 555 Kelly, the 40 unit affordable housing project for senior farmworkers in Half Moon Bay, should finally move forward tonight. 🧵

In this op-ed from @ggwash.org, YA DC member Dennis Jing breaks down how decades of exclusionary zoning, preservation rules, and resistance to new housing have locked people out, and why building more homes is essential to reversing that legacy. Read more: https://ggwash.pulse.ly/fnfq53rmqk

In our latest episode of Infill, Sonja Trauss sits down with CA Insurance Commissioner candidate Patrick Wolff to unpack how a broken insurance market, climate risk, and outdated regulations are driving up costs and making our housing crisis even worse. 🎧Tune in: https://apple.pulse.ly/fvglehdzcl

The news is out! YIMBY Action is making an official endorsement in the race for CA Governor for... 🥁 @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social! His range of housing policies set him apart. Steyer has committed to eliminating single-family zoning statewide, expanding by-right approvals and upzoning around transit.

How does YIMBY Action decide endorsements? ED Laura Foote explains: candidates are evaluated on viability and pro-housing alignment, with interviews and member input shaping the final call. Explore the full process here- https://yimbyaction.pulse.ly/ld0z9krt4j

In this op-ed from @evanstonroundtable.bsky.social, YIMBY Action member Dan Lev explains why a prolonged local process is preventing more new homes and why Illinois needs statewide action to build enough homes. Read the full piece here: https://evanstonroundtable.pulse.ly/zf7dxdnchm

Happy AAPI Heritage Month We are proud to honor the history and contributions of AAPI communities in the fight for equitable housing! ✨

Big cheers to our YIMBY of the Month, Jaimie Cavanaugh 🥳 Jaimie is a co-founder of YIMBY Plymouth in Plymouth, MI. She's played a huge role in growing her chapter, supporting the Housing Readiness Bill Package in the Michigan Legislature, and attending city meetings to advocate for more homes!

🏆 YIMBY WIN: Idaho passed two laws to boost housing supply 🏠 SB 1352 allows smaller lots & limits cities’ ability to block “starter home” development. SB 1354 protects the right to build ADUs. Read more here- https://yahoo.pulse.ly/ps9wxtex0c

Even Jeopardy! champions are like “yeah… we need to build more housing.” Jamie Ding hive, rise. 🏠 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/s...

“Change can be scary, but the status quo is scarier.” YIMBY Action member Davey Kim, writing in the SF Examiner, explains why blocking housing drives up costs and limits access 🏠 Read more here- www.sfexaminer.com/forum/arbitr...

YIMBYs and our coalition helped drive one of the most consequential periods for housing reform in Virginia's recent history. We saw advancements in parking reform, Faith In Housing, and so much more 🔥 Want to learn how we did it? https://yimbyaction.pulse.ly/oeup8sk9at

Rent is too damn high, Illinois. We've got a plan for that — the BUILD plan is designed to lower housing costs and increase housing supply.

Happy Earth Day 🌿 Thriving communities and a healthy planet go hand in hand. Let’s build a future where everyone can live closer, greener, and better.

YIMBY Action & YIMBY Law’s Impact Report is here! 2025 wins: • 93 state policy wins • 196 victories nationwide • 66K+ activists • 35K+ homes approved We’re tackling the housing shortage head on with 84 chapters across 32 states. Read more: https://yimbyaction.pulse.ly/odvwmh5sof

Want to get involved IRL? From happy hours to picnics to field trips, there’s something happening across the YIMBY network this month. Find your people and plug into the work shaping more abundant communities 🏠 🔗Find an event near you- https://yimbyaction.pulse.ly/stw6nwe58x

A new YouGov survey from @abundanthousingil.bsky.social shows overwhelming support for more housing: -84% say housing costs are a problem -82% want action Thank you to our AHIL members! Let's turn this growing support into more homes nationwide. Read more: https://suntimes.pulse.ly/cuswyxcwge

Up to 1,600 new homes! 👏 Shoutout to our Marin YIMBY chapter volunteer leaders for organizing and advocating to make this possible. It is critical that residents continue speaking up for pro-housing laws and advocating for more homes in our communities! Your voices are creating real change 🔥

In our latest blog, we dive into how states are stepping up with reforms to increase the housing supply. From: • Cutting parking mandates • Streamlining permitting • Opening land for housing • Advancing transit-oriented development Read more here: https://yimbyaction.pulse.ly/duxldvmvtt

Big thanks to Erin Baldassari, Erika Kelly, Joe and the @kqednews.kqed.org team for including housing in the conversation (as always!) I hope to see a lot of new faces showing up to talk about housing affordability @yimbyaction.bsky.social

Happy Fair Housing Anniversary ✊ The Fair Housing Act made housing discrimination illegal 🏠 But shortages and exclusionary policies still limit access. YIMBYs are continuing the work, pushing for more homes and more equitable communities.