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Colorado’s Pro-Housing Movement Is Growing — and Winning!
In 2025, Yes In My Back Yard's four Colorado chapters — Denver, Fort Collins, North Metro, and Arvada — came together to push for more homes, more affordability, and more opportunities for every Colorado community. Their combined grassroots energy helped drive one of the most impactful pro-housing years yet.
Across the state, volunteers showed up at council meetings, mobilized neighbors, and championed solutions that make it easier to build the homes Colorado needs. Thanks to this people-powered momentum, Colorado celebrated major wins in 2025, including:
Landmark statewide housing reforms that streamline permitting, modernize building codes, legalize more middle-housing, and speed up construction.
Expanded support for ADUs and modular housing, unlocking new affordable home options in existing neighborhoods.
Passed Parking Reform in Denver making it more affordable to build more homes!
Local zoning and code updates across multiple jurisdictions, aligning city policies with the state’s housing goals.
Together, these chapters form a statewide network pushing for a simple, shared vision: more homes in every community.
On Colorado Gives Day, your support helps keep this movement strong — so Denver, Fort Collins, North Metro, and Arvada can continue winning real housing change in 2026 and beyond.
Yes In My Back Yard (YIMBY) exists to make housing more affordable and accessible. We do this by serving and growing the YIMBY movement fighting for more housing. We envision an integrated and environmentally sustainable society where every person has access to a safe, affordable home near jobs, services, and opportunity.
We believe that we must build welcoming, thriving communities of opportunity for all, and that a fundamental step toward that goal is addressing our housing shortage.
The policies that artificially constrain our housing supply and led to today’s staggering shortage are rooted in racism and classism. Local communities weaponized policy to exclude, marginalize, and exploit low-income people and people of color. Policies including:
1. exclusionary zoning designed to legalize segregationist policies and practices;
2. excessive permitting processes wielded to slow down or block new residences for othered groups; and
3. intentional reductions in funding to strangle public housing and other housing restricted to workers and families earning less than median incomes.
We recognize that our fight to change these and other exclusionary housing policies is, fundamentally, a fight for class justice and for racial justice. We envision an integrated society where every person has access to a safe, affordable home near jobs, services, and opportunity.
Ultimately, YIMBY’s work will shift societal norms about new housing. Fear of change and related skepticism about new housing in one's community (“NIMBYism”) will always be a natural impulse. But our goal is that this impulse is outweighed by a powerful social consensus that we cannot have thriving, inclusive, and sustainable communities without building abundant housing. It’s time that society moves in this direction of greater justice. We are excited to partner with the funding community to make this possible.
Organization name
Yes In My Back Yard (YIMBY)
other names
YIMBY Denver
2019
Tax id (EIN)
32-0610451
Category
Housing & Shelter
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
2261 Market Street STE 10416US
Denver, CO, US
Fort Collins, CO, US