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I'm as tired of video meetings as anyone, but this #YIMBYAwards thing from @yimbyaction is genuinely uplifting
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"If you can accept a food delivery from a New Yorker who doesn’t look like you, you can also embrace them as a neighbor. If you can hire a nanny for your children who looks different from you, you can also embrace their children as classmates of your own children."
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#YIMBYAwards
"I want to commend YIMBY Action for pushing the ball forward in making sure that we're making the investments we need to make housing abundant" - @JulianCastro at the #YIMBYAwards
— Bobak Esfandiari 🥑 (@Bobakkabob37) October 24, 2020
2020 YIMBY Awards
Adam Buck
Finalists
- Ramon Iglesias, San Francisco YIMBY
- Nicole Wan, Inclusive Lafayette
Best Public Comment – Comedy
Finalists
- Krista Nordback, Bedrooms Are For People
- Richard Mehlinger, Livable Sunnyvale
Best Live Tweeting
Best Explainer
Alfred Twu
Berkeley, CA
Best Housing Reporting
Conor Dougherty
New York Times
Best Opinion Piece – Professional
Best Opinion Piece – Amateur
Housing Project Saga of The Year
Terraces of Lafayette
Lafayette, CA
Finalists
- Bedrooms Are For People, Boulder, CO
- Haven Green, New York, NY
Most Outrageous NIMBYism
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Host Committee
- Ryan Aeh
- Sasha Aickin
- Peter Ambler
- Cheryl Angeles
- Allison Arieff
- Meka Asonye
- Tracey Briones
- Ernest Brown
- Steven Buss
- Nathan Chan
- Jeff Corless
- Jay Donde
- Bobak Esfandiari
- Laura and Dan Fingal-Surma
- Steven Fitzsimmons
- Jeff Fong
- Garret Gilliland
- Christina Granados
- Parag Gupta
- Brad Hargreaves
- Auros Harman
- Dan and Josie Haspel
- Sharon Lai
- Dang Le
- Olga Milan-Howells
- Stephanie MacDonald
- Payam Mirrashidi
- Jane Natoli
- Laer Pearce
- Curt Pringle
- Sarah Rogers
- Rex Salisbury
- Hilary Schiraldi
- Sue Serrone
- Jenny Silva
- Leora Tanjuatco-Ross
- Sonja Trauss
- Brandon Whalen-Castellanos
- Patrick Wolff
- Vincent Woo