Zoning Reform, Now a Bipartisan Cause, Tries to Build a Bigger Tent
March 07, 2024 by At a recent pro-housing conference called YIMBYtown in Austin, Texas, over 600 bipartisan activists, policy experts, academics, and elected officials gathered to discuss solutions and policy successes related to housing affordability. The event drew an unlikely coalition of politically diverse advocates and lawmakers from the right and left to advance upzoning policies and encourage more housing construction. While the YIMBY movement began on the political left and was typically opposed by those on the right, it has attracted former opponents as the housing crisis has become more severe. The article mentions upzoning policy changes that have happened in Minneapolis, Portland, OR, Kentucky, Florida, and Montana.