Housing + Cities
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.
Fighting the Freeway Industrial Complex and What It Means for Housing, Infrastructure, and Transit
Alex Contreras (Happy City Coalition), Adah Crandall (Sunrise Movement PDX and Portland Youth Climate Strike), and Martha Roskowski (Further Strategies) discuss their organizations’ advocacy work and the intersection of housing, the climate crisis, and transit in the push against freeway expansions.
The Future of Historic Preservation
Social design artist Cleo Davis, Portland Historic Landmark Commission’s Kristen Minor, and moderator Steph Routh dig into the often controversial work of historic preservation and how the effort can and should be used to acknowledge all histories.
Cultivating Business Leadership for Abundant and Equitable Housing
Two Portland-based civic leaders discuss how entrepreneurship and a better, more just urban form can go hand in hand.