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September 14-16 2025 in New Haven, Connecticut

YimbyTown 2025

Pro-homes pro-riders pro-pizza
Hosted by DesegregateCT

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YIMBYtown - New Haven

YIMBYtown is the biggest national pro-homes conference in the country and we’re thrilled it is coming back to New England, just in time for the beautiful fall weather.

DesegregateCT is planning 3 days of exciting speakers, thought-provoking panels, hot takes, fun local tours and activities around New Haven, and — of course — some great apizza!

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Registration

Registration includes access to all plenary and breakout sessions, including unconference programming.

Location

New Haven, CT

As one of the United States’ oldest cities, New Haven has seen immense change over its almost 400-year history. It remains a center of innovation, culture, and revolutionary thought and boasts storied neighborhoods, vibrant nightlife, an international food scene, and many historical attractions.

This year’s conference will be held at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, located in New Haven’s walkable and dynamic downtown, just minutes from the historic New Haven Green, the Yale campus, and many restaurants and bars. We have reserved a YIMBYtown room block, but rooms will go quickly!

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Schedule

Schedule and speakers to be released in late-Spring.

Speakers

YIMBYtown 2025 speakers will include advocates, academics, public officials, and other thought leaders. Please stay tuned for this year’s speakers. If you want to submit a proposal for a panel or other presentation – submit below. Submission accepted through 4/24/2025.

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Press & Media

Members of the press are welcome to attend the conference and may use the materials included in the Press Kit and media below in their coverage of YIMBYtown 2025 with attribution to the conference. For additional information contact organizers@yimby.town.

FAQs

Please read below for frequently asked questions. If you don’t see your question answered, please reach out via the “contact us” form.

YIMBYtown is the premier nationwide pro-homes conference for advocates, organizers, and policymakers. Over several days of trainings, panels, tours, speeches, and networking, YIMBYtown provides vital space for the pro-homes movement to connect, learn, share, wrestle with difficult questions, and lay the groundwork for the continued growth and success of abundant housing policy across the country.

Where will it be held? The conference will be held at the Omni Hotel on the historic New Haven Green on September 14-16 with potential auxiliary events at Yale University and elsewhere around New Haven.

Registration is open – register here.

Previously hosted in Boulder, Colorado; Boston, Massachusetts; Oakland, California; Portland, Oregon; and Austin, Texas, YIMBYtown has engaged, empowered, and connected thousands of leading pro-homes advocates from North America and beyond.

Everyone from cabinet secretaries to volunteer students! The pro-homes movement is a big tent of backgrounds, geographies, and ideologies. You’ll be in the room with policymakers at the federal, state, and local levels; professional and grassroots organizers; academics and nonprofit thought leaders; and a whole bunch of fun pro-homes individuals from across the country.

YIMBYtown 2025 is expected to host over 500 attendees

Yes – we have reserved a block at the Omni – where the conference is being held. Reserve your room now.

New Haven is easily accessible by bus and rail and has several connections via airports. Parking is limited, so seek public transportation as a good pro-homes advocate! See the options listed on the Location tab.

DesegregateCT is a program of the Regional Plan Association – jump to HOST to learn more!

It has reached a wide national audience from coverage in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and The Atlantic.

Yes! An ‘unconference’ is a participant driven meeting format and has historically been a part of YIMBYtown. Last time it was on the final day, but YIMBYtown 2025 will have unconference meetings throughout the three days.

DesegregateCT has created an advisory committee of 24 local, state, and national partners that will look to bring demographic, ideological, and geographic diversity to create an exciting, engaging, and inclusive event that demonstrates the vibrancy and positive vision of the national pro-homes movement.

Connecticut is one of the most economically and racially segregated states in the country in no small part due to having a classic northeastern exclusionary zoning land use regimes. 90% of Connecticut residential land is zoned exclusively for single-family zoning. 80% requires at least an acre and nearly 50% requires two acres. Despite having a relatively robust rail and bus system, only a dozen cities or towns have transit-oriented zoning districts. As a result, it has some of the lowest vacancy rates and biggest home price increases in the country and lacks an estimated over 100,000 affordable homes. To combat this, DesegregateCT has adopted an “All of the Above” approach which means building all kinds of homes, acting at all levels of government, and connecting all related issues. We plan to make this a theme across the conference.

We have three goals for hosting YIMBYtown 2025 in New Haven: First, we want to energize the growing pro-homes movement in Connecticut by bringing a national audience to see the real momentum we have created and sustained through local and state victories (including particularly in New Haven) over the last four years despite a sometimes frustratingly incremental pace; two, we want to demonstrate to local advocates, elected officials, business and faith leaders and other stakeholders in the state and region how far we still have to go and how exciting that journey can be by exposing them to other states and regions that are passing bold reforms and exploring new ideas from increasing housing supply, to protecting homerenters, to connecting transportation and climate policy. Finally, we want to lay out a positive, inclusive, and innovative pro-homes vision for our state, our region, and our movement that channels our “All of the Above” approach into a tangible big tent abundance agenda.

We’re fighting for homes. A home is not just a shelter that you might rent or own. It’s a portal to a broader community of people, ideas, and opportunities. It’s a connection to a place that has a past, present, and future.

To be pro-homes is to believe that a thriving economy, more equitable communities, and a cleaner environment will make your community a safe and exciting home for all of us.

Proposals can be submitted here open until April 24th.

Speakers and schedules will likely be announced at the end of May. Please sign up for updates to hear the latest!

After you purchased your tickets, 3 months before YIMBYtown you will receive an email from Whova, our event management app, to download and register for the Event Day app – where you will be able to create your agenda on your phone, tablet, or computer/laptop.

Please check out our “Press & Media” page for a Press Kit and additional information (updated as available).

Please click here to donate. If you would like to sponsor the event or a part of the event (e.g. a bike tour, cocktail party, awards, and more) email us here.

Perfection! It’s the best time to visit New Haven. Highs in the low 70’s (°F), Lows in the lows 60s (°F).

Much – check out the Explore New Haven section.

Donate

YIMBYtown is impossible without the generous contributions of our allies in the volunteer-led pro-housing movement. If you or your organization would like to support the conference, you can select from the options below or contact us at organizers@yimby.town .

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YOUR 2025 HOST: DesegregateCT

DesegregateCT is a program of the Regional Plan Association and organizes as a pro-homes coalition of Connecticut neighborhood groups and nonprofits dedicated to creating a more prosperous, equitable, and sustainable home for everyone. We take an “All of the Above” approach to solving the housing shortage and climate crisis which means: build all kinds of homes, work at all levels of government, and connect all related issues.

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