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Monday, February 26
7:45 am

Registration Opens (coffee and light breakfast provided)

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 1st Floor - 1.110

8:45 am

Opening Plenary

UT Thompson Conference Center - LBJ - LBJ Auditorium

By Nolan Gray, Sara Bronin, Felicity Maxwell, Kirk Watson

9:00 am

Vendor Room

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.110: Vendor Booths

10:15 am

YIMBY in the Pacific Region

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.108

By Joe McReynolds, Andrew Donnellan, Oscar Sims, Camille Gix

The Many Barriers to Equitable Transit Oriented Development

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.102

By Linda Klein, Abby Thorne-Lyman, Liya Rechtman, Christof Spieler

Developing an Equity/Anti-Racism Lens in YIMBY Work

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.122

By Elvira Mora, Kassie Infante, Julia Davidovitz, Cheryl Daniel

The History of YIMBYism

UT Thompson Conference Center - LBJ - LBJ Auditorium

By Henry Honorof, Sonja Trauss, Susan Somers, Brian Hanlon, Jake Wegmann

National Zoning Atlas Keynote

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.110

By Sara Bronin

Coalition Training: Building and Expanding the YIMBY Tent

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.120

By Adriana Garcia Maximiliano, Christian Solorio, Tonya Jameson, Tiffani McCoy, Betty Bogg

11:20 am

Bipartisan: The proven path to YIMBY legislative success

UT Thompson Conference Center - LBJ - LBJ Auditorium

By Kesha Ram Hinsdale, Kendall Cotton, Jake Hinman, Sarah Thorne

Homes Not Highways: Postcards from Texan Freeway Fights for housing justice

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.108

By Megan Kimble, Kelsey Huse, Bradley Petty, Zoe Middleton, Aaron Brown

How YIMBYs can Support Tenants and Build Stronger Coalitions

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.122

By Sara Wamsley, Julia Davidovitz, Siboney Diaz Sanchez

One weird trick to build housing, grow your chapter and effect narrative change

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.110

By Sonja Trauss

Exploring State and Local legislative wins in California

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.102

By Aaron Eckhouse, Joseph May, Noerena Limon, Jordan Panana Carbajal, Scott Epstein

12:30 pm

Monday Lunch

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 1st Floor - 1.126: Lunch Pickup

Monday West Campus Tour

UT Thompson Conference Center

Texas YIMBY Lunch Meetup

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.122

1:00 pm

Address and Q&A with Montana Governor Greg Gianforte

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.102

By Greg Gianforte

1:30 pm

Parking Reform is for Everyone

UT Thompson Conference Center - LBJ - LBJ Auditorium

By Graham Downey, Tony Jordan, Catie Gould, Jeannette Lee, Zo Qadri

How different are local land use regulations, really?

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.110

By Benjamin Horowitz, Libby Starling

How YIMBY Planners Are Leading Reform

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.108

By Chris Taylor, Dov Kadin, Margaret Wallace Brown, Winnie Shen, Nolan Gray

Montana's 2023 State Zoning Reforms - Breaking Them Down From the Inside

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.102

By Kendall Cotton, Danny Tenenbaum, Jake Brown, Nathan Dugan

Coalition Training: Engaging YIMBY Students and Mobilizing K-12 Advocates

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.120

By Nate Stell, Matthew Aini, Kassie Infante, Zennon Ulyate-Crow, Allyson Chan, George Ashford, Ryan Lenney

Yes in My Metro Region: The Math of Equitable, Sustainable Regional Growth

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.122

By Jay Blazek Crossley, Anna Zetkulic

2:45 pm

YIGBY: Building Power with Religious Organizations

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.120

By James Pearlstein, Samir Lavingia, Andrew Fine, Nolan Gray

Thinking outside the market box

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.108

By Dan Reed, Camille Gix, Alice Woods, Ryan Nill

Reducing Displacement Risk in Pro-Housing Policies

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.110

By Siboney Diaz Sanchez, Veronica Gonzalez, Jacob Floyd, Sara Wamsley

Lessons from missing middle and other legislative wins in Washington State

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.102

By Alex Brennan, Kate Brunette, Dan Bertolet, Matt Hutchins, Andrew Grant Houston

Keep Houston Weird

UT Thompson Conference Center - LBJ - LBJ Auditorium

By Christof Spieler, Sasha Marshall Smith, Jordan Thomas

Urbanistas and YIMBY Women

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.122

By Kelsey Huse

4:00 pm

Grow Up, Austin!

UT Thompson Conference Center - LBJ - LBJ Auditorium

By Alina Carnahan, Louisa Brinsmade, Ryan Puzycki, Daniel Kavelman

Housing on the Ballot: Winning Pro-Housing Policies through Ballot Measure Campaigns

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.110

By Michael Daly, Angelina Cornejo, Madeleine Hammerlund, Courtney Cooperman

Working with Labor Organizations to Build the YIMBY Movement

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.120

By Andrew Gothard

Beyond Facebook: Empowering Your Community with Discord, Google Groups, and Google Apps

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.122

By Kurt Dresner, Edgar Handal

The Juice/Squeeze Ratio: A peer-to-peer pitch session about the politically achievable

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.108

By Salim Furth, Michael Andersen, Alison McIntosh

Becoming a YIMBY Leader

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.102

By Leslie Pool, Awais Azhar

4:30 pm

Reception hosted by YIMBY Action

UT Thompson Conference Center

6:00 pm

Evening Plenary

UT Thompson Conference Center - LBJ - LBJ Auditorium

By Julián Castro, José “Chito” Vela

8:00 pm

CNL Social

Crown and Anchor Pub

Tuesday, February 27
8:00 am

Registration Opens (coffee and light breakfast provided)

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 1st Floor - 1.110

9:00 am

Morning Co-Plenary: What Can the State Do (or Not Do) to Solve Housing Affordability in Texas?

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 1st Floor - 1.110

By Nicole Nosek, Brennan Griffin, Chance Weldon, Dr. Judge Glock, Rep. Cody Vasut

Morning Co-Plenary: End Homelessness

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.102

By Rosanne Haggerty, Cole Chandler, Mark Smith, Ned Resnikoff

10:15 am

Saying Yes to Income Restricted Affordable Housing in Every Community

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.108

By Mark Shelburne, Ian Carlton

Growing Up Your Advocacy Program

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.120

By Dan Reed, Alex Baca

Federal Housing Policy Roundtable

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 1st Floor - 1.110

By Andrew Justus, Jenny Schuetz, Alex Armlovich

Do We Support Smaller Home Builders? Changing the Perception of Infill Developers

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.102

By Temaria Davis, Sonja Trauss, Jen Weaver, Leah Bojo

Latino Voices in the YIMBY Movement

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.110

By Noerena Limon, Kayla Acosta-Galvan, Adriana Garcia Maximiliano, Christian Solorio, Jordan Panana Carbajal

Open 2025 Texas Legislative Priorities Workshop

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.122

By Jay Blazek Crossley, Daniel Kavelman

11:20 am

Social Media Advocacy: Sh*tpost or Social Change?

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 1st Floor - 1.110

By Ryan O'Connell, Will Davis, Jenna Hanes

Get your work funded now! (Or take your fundraising to the next level!)

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.120

By Gillian Pressman

Help the Metropolitan Abundance Project help you!

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.122

By Ned Resnikoff

How Land Use Reform can Reduce Carbon Emissions, Lessen Traffic Problems, and Improve Affordability

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.102

By Anna Zetkulic, Heather House, Matt Frommer, Liya Rechtman, Jackie Lombardi

Next Level Parking Policies

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.108

By Melissa Beeler, Leah Bojo, Curtis Rogers, Ann Cheng, Tony Jordan

YIMBY Wins in Canada

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.110

By Naama Blonder, Kathryn Davies, Mark Richardson, Russil Wvong

12:30 pm

Tuesday Lunch

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 1st Floor - 1.126: Lunch Pickup

Tuesday West Campus Tour

UT Thompson Conference Center

1:30 pm

One Stairway to Heaven

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 1st Floor - 1.110

By Sean Jursnick, Eduardo Mendoza, Michael Andersen

Unparking Cities: A Conversation with PRN

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.122

By Tony Jordan, Adam Greenfield

Battling Exclusionary Practices in the Courtroom

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.102

By Brian Hodges, Matthew Gelfand, Keith Diggs, Ari Bargil, Charles Gardner

Finding Middle Housing: Middle Housing Reform Success Stories

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.108

By Scott Turner, Morgan Tracy, Seema Kairam, Lydia Ness

Communicating with Policymakers and Media – For the Win!

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.120

By Tushar Kansal, Nicole Nosek, Cheryl Daniel, Jamal Raad, Tobias Peter

How to Make the YIMBY Movement More Diverse

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.110

By Raul Maldonado, Jarred Johnson, Maddon Hoh-Choi, Tatiana Morales, Alexander Melendrez

2:35 pm

Building Code Reform: the last frontier for affordability

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.110

By Margaret Wallace Brown, John Zeanah, Ivy Vann, Tyron McDaniel

Sidewalks, Street Trees and Slow Streets: Retrofitting Your City to Support a Housing-Dense Future

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.102

By Kevin Howard, Jana M McCann, Paige Ellis, Conor Kenny

Winning YIMBY Elections Workshop

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.120

By Katya Ehresman, Timothy Bray, Eric Budd, Zachary Faddis

How to Win in the Suburbs

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.108

By Jeremy Levine, Luca Gattoni-Celli, Leora Ross

Housing Abundance and Scarcity at all Ages and Abilities

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 1st Floor - 1.110

By Joyce Mandell, Zoabe Hafeez, Stephanie Thomas, Samar Jha

3:40 pm

Student Housing Sucess! Austin's West Campus experience

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.110

By Dan Keshet, Ava Garderet, Isabel Webb Carey

eTOD in action: Lessons from North Berkeley BART

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 2nd Floor - 2.120

By Libby Lee-Egan, Rashi Kesarwani, Abby Thorne-Lyman, Bill McCamley

Toward Fair and Balanced Short Term Rental Policies

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 1st Floor - 1.110

By Bishop Chappell, Ryan Alter

Equitably Planning For Healthy, Complete Communities

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.102

By Abraham Zorrilla, Sasha Marshall Smith, Michele Anderson, Vanessa Fuentes

CHATtown

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 3rd Floor - 3.122

By Henry Honorof

4:40 pm

Tuesday Closing Toast + Cookies in Under the Oaks Cafe

UT Thompson Conference Center - Thompson 1st Floor - Under The Oaks

5:30 pm

Group Photo

UT Thompson Conference Center

Texas Homes & Hops Happy Hour

Lustre Pearl East

6:00 pm

Parking Party

Halycon Downtown

Wednesday, February 28
8:45 am

Unconference Intro

St. David's Episcopal Church

9:00 am

Why New Jersey isn't at YIMBYtown: Learning from the Mount Laurel Doctrine

St. David's Episcopal Church - Guild Parlor

Alternative Housing: how mobile, self-build, village, co-op etc approaches open radical possibilities

St. David's Episcopal Church - Holy Grounds

Regional Governance; How can we structure local government for success?

St. David's Episcopal Church - Labyrinth

Policy Pitch Open Mike

St. David's Episcopal Church - Crail Hall

Build-to-Rent Single-Family Housing: Threat or Opportunity?

Capital Factory - Padawan 5th Floor

Tours

TBA

9:55 am

Who Did You Ask? -- How Boston Is Radically Changing Community Engagement for our Form-Based Zoning Reform Efforts

St. David's Episcopal Church - Guild Parlor

How do we know if land use reforms are working?

St. David's Episcopal Church - Crail Hall

Housing is Green: Environmentalism and the Housing Movement

St. David's Episcopal Church - Labyrinth

Housing Myth-Busting

Capital Factory - Padawan 5th Floor

Up Your Coaltions Game

St. David's Episcopal Church - Holy Grounds

10:40 am

FUBU

St. David's Episcopal Church - Guild Parlor

Building a Pro-Growth Left

St. David's Episcopal Church - Labyrinth

What the cost bottleneck looks like

St. David's Episcopal Church - Crail Hall

Demystifying Your City Council: My Experience Building a Vote Tracker of Austin’s City Council, and how I’ve used that to inform advocacy

Capital Factory - Padawan 5th Floor

11:30 am

Transit Forward Luncheon

St. David's Episcopal Church - Crail Hall

12:30 pm

POC Mixer

TBA

1:10 pm

Housing Messaging That wins elections

St. David's Episcopal Church - Guild Parlor

Why YIMBY is and should be non-ideological

St. David's Episcopal Church - Labyrinth

Policy Pitch Open Mike

St. David's Episcopal Church - Crail Hall

Designing Public Participation and Community Engagement without NIMBYism

TBA

Designing Public Participation and Community Engagement without NIMBYism

St. David's Episcopal Church - Holy Grounds

2:10 pm

Unconference Closing Plenary

St. David's Episcopal Church

By Felicity Maxwell

3:30 pm

Closing Happy Hour at the Driskill Hotel

TBA

5:00 pm

URBAN DESIGN FILM NIGHT: Promoting a Human-Centered Public Realm

Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar

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