Get Your City To Say Yes to Housing.

The national housing shortage is making it harder for people to live in communities like yours. Join thousands of neighbors showing up to fix it.

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America is short nearly 4M homes.

Higher housing costs

When we don't build enough homes, people compete for too few options—and prices rise.

Less opportunity

Restrictive rules keep people out of communities with great schools, jobs, transit, and amenities.

Longer commutes

When housing can't be built near opportunity, people are pushed farther out—adding driving, time, and pollution.

We organize neighbors to change housing policy.

For decades, a vocal few have turned out to block new homes. YIMBY Action (as in Yes In My Back Yard) helps neighbors outnumber them at hearings, back pro-housing candidates, and change the rules that keep homes from getting built.

Chapters

Local chapters pack the hearings where housing lives or dies, in rooms that used to belong to "no."

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Endorsements

Chapters research candidates and members help decide who earns an endorsement, so you know who's pro-housing on your ballot.

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Impact

From parking reform to ending apartment bans, members are winning the changes that let more homes get built, city by city.

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Across the country, YIMBY Action has:

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Local chapters

States

National change starts with local neighbors.

Speaking up is easier when you're not alone. When a housing proposal comes before your local government, members organize support, meet with decision-makers, and make sure pro-housing neighbors are in the room.

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Housing is on the ballot.

The people you elect decide whether homes get built. See which candidates and ballot measures YIMBY Action chapters have endorsed near you.

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When neighbors show up, homes get built.

Members help move housing from an idea to a vote, from a vote to policy, and from policy to homes people can live in.

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Homes advanced by local chapters

Pro-housing policies passed

Endorsed candidates who won

“We are not building nearly enough housing in Los Angeles. The passage of SB 79 has pushed us to truly engage with a goal we claim to have as a city—transit lines with lots of housing around them—through our local implementation plan.”

Nithya Raman

Council Member, Los Angeles, CA