YIMBY Fort Collins

Thanks to @shane4larimer for sharing your housing stories and ideas with our group tonight! 🍻

YIMBY Fort Collins is committed to giving renters a voice, so we want to highlight how renter rights have changed in recent years. You should know: 💰 Security deposits are generally capped at two months’ rent. 🐶 Pet deposits are capped at $300 and must be refundable. 💸 Landlords generally can’t require income greater than 2x the monthly rent. ✅ Qualifying portable tenant screening reports must…

🍻 Meet us for Happy Hour with @shane4larimer Shane Atkinson, our endorsed candidate for Larimer County Commissioner in District 1🌟 Find us downstairs at Prost on Monday, October 12 to learn more about this election’s impact on housing and more in Larimer County 🏠 Hear from fellow YIMBYs about policy we’re focused on in Fort Collins 🤓 Learn about some new volunteer opportunities this fall 🍁

🚊 Absolutely packed turnout at our event on Front Range Passenger Rail last night! 🚊 Thank you to our attendees for your enthusiasm and great questions. Thank you to @coloradoan for your coverage and helping make this event standing-room-only. Thank you to @tcanonico for convening our speakers and facilitating the conversation. And thank you to our FANTASTIC speakers @rep.boesenecker.co.hd53, Se…

🚊 TOMORROW! 🏠 Front Range Passenger Rail enthusiasts or community members who want to learn more, join us to hear this esteemed panel talk all things CoCo tomorrow, August 6 in Odell’s community room. Show up early to grab a beer before the panel starts at 6:30 pm.

Spent today working on a house in the Bloom neighborhood, with @fortcollinshabitat and @yimbyfortcollins Habitat will have 40 affordable for sale homes in the Bloom development. Teamwork makes the dream work. Shoutout to the homies @juliefortcollins @chris.conway.foco and @lexival14 who made the time fly by! #affordablehousing #fortcollins #community #larimercounty

Front Range Passenger Rail is coming to Fort Collins! 🚆 Join our panel of experts as we envision a vibrant community surrounding the future Front Range Passenger Rail station in Fort Collins. 🏠 Grab a beer in the Odell Brewery Tasting Room before 6:30 then join us in the community room. ⚡️ RSVP at the link in our bio.

🔨 Fort Collins Habitat for Humanity is hosting a Build Day for YIMBY volunteers on August 1 and you’re all invited to sign up! 🏠 Hurry to book your spot quickly, there are only 10 spots total and half are already taken! 🏁 ⚡️ Register at the link in our bio. The deadline for registration is Wednesday, July 29th at 8:30am. Anyone attempting to register after this will not be able to and will not…

Wednesday evening I joined a panel organized by @strongtownsfoco and @yimbyfortcollins to talk about something we’ve been talking about since 2003: paid parking in Old Town. Yes, 2003. I walked the room through 22 years — six studies, six consultants, one consistent recommendation (paid on-street parking in Old Town), and one consistent outcome (not yet). The data hasn’t changed. The conclusion ha…

🚗 YIMBY is teaming up with our friends at Strong Towns @strongtownsfoco to host three parking policy experts as we discuss best practices in metered parking and downtown land use. Tuesday, June 30, 7:00-8:15pm Center for Creativity 200 Mathews St., Fort Collins

YIMBY Fort Collins is endorsing @michaelbennet for Governor. He is the only candidate committed to continuing our statewide push to holding local governments accountable to building more homes. We’re endorsing @shane4larimer for Larimer County Commissioner because he treats housing as a real quality-of-life issue for Larimer County that has consequences on everything from income equality to the en…