About

We're Locals

YIMBY Fort Collins is a grassroots group of unpaid, local volunteers. We had our first meeting at Bean Cycle in December, 2022, when a few of us decided that we needed a pro-housing voice to push back against the loud NIMBYism that had come to dominate. That small group became our leadership team (bios below). We live here and we love Fort Collins. We're happy to meet up with anyone for lunch or coffee in Old Town to chat about housing.

We Support an "All of the Above" Approach to Housing

While streamlining new missing-middle housing will be key to ending the housing crisis and is core to our mission, we support so much more. We want better protections for renters. We want more public funding for capital "A" Affordable housing. We want to repeal the heck out of U+2. We advocate at neighborhood meetings for nonprofit housing built and run by awesome providers like CARE Housing, Neighbor to Neighbor, Housing Catalyst, Catholic Charities, and Habitat for Humanity. We need more housing of all kinds and of all types. Check out our values and platform pages for all the details.

We Are Entirely Volunteers

Since forming that late last year, YIMBY Fort Collins has put on educational events, hosted a city candidate forum, provided public comment at city council meetings, advocated for statewide housing reform, and joined up with CSU students to try to repeal U+2. We need a pro-housing voice in Fort Collins if we're going to be a place that literally has room for everyone to thrive. 

We are part of the national YIMBY Action 501c(4) nonprofit organization. They supply us with a local chapter budget of a few hundred dollars for food for events, but we have yet to use any of that. See the difference our sister YIMBY groups are making in Northern Virginia, Montana, Texas, and California.

That's YIMBY Fort Collins in a nutshell. Please join us in to help make our city's housing policy work for everyone.