Housing + Cities
Gender, Sexuality, and Abundant Housing: Addressing Housing Precarity in the LGBTQ Community
Nancy Haque (Basic Rights Oregon), Esme D. Miller, Dan Reed, and moderator Sarah Mirk discuss the role that gender and sexuality have played---and continue to play---in access to affordable housing.
Winning Abundant Housing: The UK, Germany, and France
It’s not just national vs. local control. It’s also the incentives for local authorities.
The Present and Future of ADUs and Other Homes in Our Backyards
Kol Peterson (Accessory Dwelling Strategies), Annie Fryman (Adobu), Eli Spevak (Orange Splot), and Stewart Hulick (Urban Nest Realty) discuss what’s new in the world of ADUs and other backyard homes in a YIMBYtown 2022 panel.
How First Nations and YIMBYs Are Changing the Housing Game in Vancouver, BC
Squamish Nation Council Chairperson Khelsilem and Abundant Housing Vancouver’s Danny Oleksiuk discuss a novel approach to homebuilding that benefits the Squamish First Nation community.
Building Healthy Organizations and Sustainable Movements
Henry Honorof (Welcoming Neighbors Network), Jesse Kanson-Benanav (Abundant Housing Massachusetts), and Sarah Weber-Ogden (Sunrise Movement PDX) share their insights into how to set up organizations for longevity and success.
Inclusionary Housing in Portland: A Dial, Not a Switch
Vivian Satterfield (Verde) and Cassie Graves (Portland Housing Bureau) discuss the impacts of lifting Oregon’s ban on inclusionary zoning in a YIMBYtown 2022 panel.
What Do Housing Providers Have to Say about Zoning Reform and City Policies?
In this YIMBYtown 2022 session, Julia Metz (Catholic Charities of Oregon), Paul Del Vecchio (Ethos Development), and Preston Korst (Habitat for Humanity Portland Metro) discuss how zoning and other reforms affect how much and how fast they can build new housing.
Parking Reform: From Theory to Practice
The principles of parking reform are straightforward, but the politics can be another story. Four changemakers from both in and outside of government share their stories of how they won victories for using city space more efficiently.
Political Leadership for Abundant Housing
St. Paul councilmember Mitra Jalali, Former Oregon House Speaker and gubernatorial candidate Tina Kotek, Washington state representative Jessica Bateman, and moderator Conor Dougherty (New York Times) discuss housing advocacy at local and state levels and how focusing on real people and their stories can unite coalitions around a common cause.
Thumb on the Scale: Our Housing Systems and How to Fix Them
Jerusalem Demsas (The Atlantic), Jenny Schuetz (Brookings Metro), Allan Lazo (Fair Housing Council of Oregon), and moderator Vivian Satterfield discuss the need to rethink our exclusionary housing systems and the community engagement process in order to reshape these systems and their outcomes.