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The national convening for the pro-housing movement is heading to Raleigh, NC on Nov. 17-19, 2026! Follow along here and sign up at yimby.town for updates.

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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 01/10/2026
The #YIMBYtown2026 schedule is LIVE! Panels. Workshops. Keynotes. Flash talks. Three days of ideas, connections & lessons to bring home. See what’s happening in Raleigh, Nov. 17-19! 🔗 yimby.town/yimbytown-20... Hosted by @citybuilder.bsky.social, @raleighforward.bsky.social & partners!
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 29/09/2026
Class is in session. The field trip? YIMBYtown. 🎒 🏘️ Students can join the pro-housing movement in Raleigh this Nov. 17–19 for just $75. 🔗 Grab your ticket: whova.com/portal/regis... Hosted by @citybuilder.bsky.social, @raleighforward.bsky.social & partners!
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 18/09/2026
Help the next generation of pro-housing leaders get to YIMBYtown. 🎒 Sponsor a student by selecting “Scholarship to Support a Student Attendee” on the registration page. Hosted by @citybuilder.bsky.social, @raleighforward.bsky.social & partners! 🔗 whova.com/portal/regis...
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 31/08/2026
Last chance!! ⏰ Early Bird pricing for YIMBYtown 2026 ends TONIGHT at 11:59PM ET. Register now before prices go up! 🔗 Register at yimby.town Hosted by @citybuilder.bsky.social, @raleighforward.bsky.social & partners!
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 14/08/2026
Great news! 🥳 Early Bird pricing for YIMBYtown 2026 has been extended through August 31. Lock in your discounted registration for the nation's biggest pro-housing conference! 🔗 yimby.town Hosted by @citybuilder.bsky.social, @raleighforward.bsky.social & partners!
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 14/07/2026
Only 4 days left to apply to speak at YIMBYtown 2026! ⏳ Bold ideas and fresh voices wanted. The deadline to apply is July 17! Y'all in? Hosted by @citybuilder.bsky.social @raleighforward.bsky.social & peers! 🔗 yimby.town
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 10/07/2026
What does a YIMBYtown 2026 session look like? ✅ Bold conversations ✅ Unconventional formats ✅ Fresh voices from across the movement Y'all in? Apply to speak by July 17! Hosted by @citybuilder.bsky.social @raleighforward.bsky.social & peers! 🔗 yimby.town
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 01/07/2026
Do you have a win to share, an idea to spark, or a workshop to lead? Apply to speak at YIMBYtown 2026 in Raleigh, NC! Deadline: July 17. Creative formats encouraged. Applicants limited to 2 proposals. Hosted by @citybuilder.bsky.social, @raleighforward.bsky.social & partners! 🔗 yimby.town
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YIMBYtown 2026 | Raleigh, NC — Nov 17-19
YIMBYtown, the biggest national pro-homes conference in the country, is coming south to Raleigh, NC! Tickets are now available »
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 18/06/2026
Who's hosting YIMBYtown 2027? Applications are open for pro-housing organizations ready to bring the nation's biggest housing conference to their city. Apps due July 27, 2026! Is your town ready? Apply now ⬇️ 🔗 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 11/06/2026
Good news! 🎉 The deadline to apply to speak at YIMBYtown 2026 has been extended to July 17. New this year: applicants are limited to two proposals. Got a big idea? Apply now! Hosted by @citybuilder.bsky.social, @raleighforward.bsky.social & partners! 🔗 yimby.town
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YIMBYtown 2026 | Raleigh, NC — Nov 17-19
YIMBYtown, the biggest national pro-homes conference in the country, is coming south to Raleigh, NC! Tickets are now available »
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 27/05/2026
Got a big idea for the pro-housing movement? Apply to speak at YIMBYtown 2026 in Raleigh, NC! 🏘️ Share your wins, spark new conversations, and help shape the future of housing advocacy this November. 💫 Apps are open, so start yours today! 🔗 whova.com/call_for_spe...
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 21/05/2026
💫 Register today to join us in Raleigh for YIMBYtown 2026! Three exciting days of conversations, panels, and workshops with 1000+ pro-housing advocates and changemakers. 🗓️ Early Bird pricing ends August 15. Don't miss it! 🔗 whova.com/portal/regis...
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 15/05/2026
📣 Registration and a Call for Proposals for YIMBYtown 2026 are now OPEN! 📣 🗓️ Nov 17-19, 2026 📍 Raleigh, NC Can't wait to see y'all there!
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 25/02/2026
🗓️ SAVE THE DATE: YIMBYtown 2026 is November 17-19! Join us at the Raleigh Convention Center for 3 days of pro-homes strategy and movement-building, hosted by @citybuilder.bsky.social, Yes! In My Triangle, NC Housing Table, Raleigh Forward. 🔗 Sign up for updates: yimby.town
SAVE THE DATE!
NOVEMBER 17–19
RALEIGH CONVENTION CENTER

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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 06/10/2025
Email your testimony supporting single stair reform to DAS.CodesStandards@ct.gov with “2026 Public Comment” in the subject line by Oct. 11th!
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Thank you to the 1,000 pro-homes advocates who joined us in New Haven this year. We'll see you next time!
That's all, folks!
THANK YOU FOR JOINING US AT THE BIGGEST YIMBYTOWN YET! SEE YOU NEXT TIME!
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
You can find some of the speakers here: @parkerwelch.bsky.social @cityjane.bsky.social @chris-gannon.bsky.social @alexhrwtz.bsky.social
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
We are wrapping up this thread as the session moves to audience Q&A. Thanks for following along!
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Naylor: "The building code is the next frontier. But we also need to question standard municipal ways of thinking."
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Naylor encourages the audience to ask, "Why can't we have nice things here?" when traveling. "It always comes down to regulations."
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Horowitz says pre-approved plans would be helpful here in getting single stair buildings going, especially for smaller (sub-12 unit) buildings.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Maxwell asks, what's next?
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Welch says anywhere you've taken a vacation, take a picture of the buildings you like. Use that in presentations. In their threads, it was all pictures he had taken in Amsterdam or London. "People loved it. They're all over the place!"
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Jonathan Tarleton on housing awareness: "Housing requires education on the issues. Once the awareness is there, you can then begin the process of proposing new homes."
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Gannon says when folks see a single stair building, there is a dramatic moment where they realize, "Oh! It's small!"
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Gannon: Now that we've legalized single stair in Austin, I'm doing a lot of presentation to developers and real estate agents to get this built.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
14 states have passed a single stair bill in the last three sessions, says Horowitz, to audience applause. "That's wild success."
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Horowitz shows a visual comparing a double-loaded corridor building, a football field, and a single-stair building. This shows the distance residents must travel to reach a stairway, clarifying the myth that a single stairway is somehow less safe.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
"Projects in my office take about eight years to go from initial calls to construction," says Naylor.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Naylor is showing visual examples, which we'll try to share out post-conference.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Reicher on co-ops and democracy as they coexist: "People that live in co-ops have a higher tendency to practice democracy, vote in elections, and be civicly engaged."
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Naylor's research shows that single stair reform could, at rough estimate, unlock capacity for 130,000 new homes — just in greater Boston.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Additional remarks from Andrew Reicher: "Co-ops aren't a development activity. It is a people development activity. It builds community, and people can benefit."
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Welch says single family homes have a death rate of twice that of multifamily. This is not to invalidate the experience of fire officials, but it is about taking the broader view.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Welch is a transportation engineer, often in the data on a real health and safety crisis: traffic deaths. Says that's once how residential fires were, but we designed our way out of it. Around 40% of what a firefighter does is respond to car crashes.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Also from Reicher: "If we want more social housing and co-ops, we need to make the changes locally to make them happen."
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Andrew Reicher on housing production: "Everywhere else in the nation, the most prolific way we create housing is the low-income tax credit (LIHTC)."
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Gannon says the firefighters' experience with a multifamily building is often having to rush in through a stairway. From that experience, two stairways WOULD be better. Three stairways would be better. Or no stairways! But the data show that is not better.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Horowitz says more people are dying from homelessness in the United States than from residential fires. We have to provide homes and make sure they are safe from fire risk.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Fire officials are sometimes making claims that people will die if we pass single stair. "A lot of reason to believe the opposite is true," says Horowitz.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Horowitz: We need to give fire safety folks the benefit of the doubt. There haven't been a lot of data to work with. That will take time to defuse. But we have to use data and look at outcomes. This can't be something where intuition is guiding fire safety.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Naylor: Things won't pencil in Cambridge without single stair.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Naylor says this was about activating small and mid-size parcels. In the northeast, many lots are small, unlike the large lots in other places that lead to large buildings on podiums.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Welch explains how Austin advocates coordinated "Step Up for Single Stair" shirts, which allowed greater visibility at City Council. In these settings where time is limited, the visible presence shows leaders that your coalition is present and passionate.
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Regional Plan Association @rpa.org · 16/09/2025
It's the last set of breakout sessions for @yimbytown.bsky.social 2025, and we're closing it out with a conversation between Moses Gates and Dan Garodnick @nycplanning.bsky.social. Follow along:
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
This was a key factor in the policy's passage at City Council. Welch: "In order to be taken seriously by a decision maker, they need to see credentials. They need to know they are not going to be embarrassed and that you are not going to put anyone in danger."
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Welch, one of the advocates who led in Austin and in Texas broadly, shares that a broad coalition made it possible: "As many people as would put their logo and their name on the letter."
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Gannon says single stair buildings give architects design flexibility. "We want that for us," the community, and architects want to design these buildings.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Horowitz: The big reason, though, is they're modern multifamily, and that is the safest housing type. And it's not even close.
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YIMBYtown @yimby.town · 16/09/2025
Much of the abundance conversation focuses on supply. But what about social housing? Follow this thread for highlights from our panel exploring this issue:
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