Change is measurable.

Third try, razor-thin margins on every vote. California chapters generated constituent pressure in key districts and delivered coordinated testimony — the visible pro-housing constituency that let legislators say yes.

Chicago struck parking requirements near transit, then Illinois took it statewide with the People Over Parking Act. Dallas, Denver, Seattle, and Asheville each dismantled their own mandates the same year.

Every Seattle YIMBY-endorsed candidate won in November — Katie Wilson for mayor, Eddie Lin in District 2, Alexis Mercedes Rinck at-large — and Proposition 1A passed to fund social housing.

Denver advanced building-code legislation allowing single-stair apartment buildings — a design common worldwide but long banned in U.S. cities — cutting costs for the small and mid-sized infill that fits existing neighborhoods.

Orlando YIMBY helped shape Orange County's comprehensive plan, embedding room for homes near jobs and transit in the region's growth blueprint for decades to come.

Tucson for Everyone founder Miranda Schubert won her city council race — alongside two citywide rezonings, including up to four homes by right on nearly every residential lot in the city.

Chapter campaigns made backyard homes legal to permit by-right across four states, cutting approval times from months to weeks.

From a handful of Bay Area organizers to 80+ chapters in 22 states — every one researching local races and voting on endorsements.