Andy Cushen and James Warren sit down with Rob Greer and Anna De Witt of YIMBY (Yes In My Back Yard) Denver to discuss what YIMBY is, what they advocate for and why, and the challenges keeping Denver from affordability.
“This bill perfectly aligns with the significant investments Coloradan taxpayers have already made in our transit infrastructure in recent decades — an investment we risk letting go to waste by not strategically aligning land use and transit,” Ryan Keeney, president of YIMBY Denver, said...
We can’t let the American Dream die. To bring it back, we must solve Colorado’s devastating housing shortage. We need to make housing abundant, affordable and equitable for all.
"For YIMBY Denver, a policy group that pushes for the creation of new housing and that has endorsed Johnston, the organization doesn’t pay much attention one way or the other to those donations."
Chris Miller, secretary of YIMBY Denver, a chapter of YIMBY Action, a nonprofit focused on the housing shortage, said owner-occupancy rules add unnecessary cost and friction to making more housing available since they have little to do with the concern they’re ostensibly trying to tackle.
“The problem is a lack of housing,” said David Pardo, an advocate for abundant housing with Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY) Denver, an organization that advocates for denser housing and better public transit. “If we don’t have enough housing, houses are going to..."
