Housing + Cities
Keeping Our Neighbors Housed: Humanizing Homelessness and Bringing Everyone to the Table
Mercedes Elizalde (Central City Concern), Cole Merkel (HereTogether), and Mindy Woods (Resident Action Project) discuss how to form coalitions to then build power and effect policy change on all levels so that everyone can have a safe and stable place to call home.
More Trees for More Neighbors
Balancing priorities of greenscape and residential infill to house more neighbors in healthy communities.
Q&A: The Costs of Parking Mandates in Booming Austin
"No question that we're overbuilding parking": Austin's Leah Bojo on parking.
Developers Sound Off: Successes, Challenges, and Opportunities to Build All This Dang Housing
Payton Chung (Westover Green), Ezra Hammer (Taylor Morrison), Eric Thompson (Oregon Homeworks), and moderator Michael Andersen (Sightline Institute) discuss how developers are adjusting their projects to housing and zoning laws.
What’s Happening on Housing in the US Federal Government?
The federal budget, Congressional bills, and more DC strategies: a presentation by Up for Growth.
Winning Abundant Housing: Japan and New Zealand
In all the industrial world, Japan has perhaps the best housing economy and New Zealand may have the worst. What lessons do they offer to teach other places?
Tenants’ Rights in Our Backyard—and Tenants in Our Coalition, Too
Jamey Duhamel (Portland Bureau of Transportation), Tram Hoang (Housing Justice Center), and moderator Shelby King (Shelterforce) share their experiences in housing accessibility and tenants’ rights advocacy.
You’re a YIMBY? Great, Why Aren’t You a Small Developer Yet?
Payton Chung (Westover Green LLC), Nicholas Papaefthimiou (infillPDX LLC), and Neil Heller (Neighborhood Workshop) break down what it takes to build small-scale infill housing.
West Coast Case Studies: Advocacy for and Implementation of Legislation for Regional Housing Needs
Representative Julie Fahey, Lorelei Juntunen (ECONorthwest), Jamie Ptacek (Futurewise), and Aaron Eckhouse (California YIMBY) compare and contrast how Washington, Oregon, and California require local governments to plan for housing in a YIMBYtown 2022 panel.