Preserving Fort Collins’ Quality of Life for Every Resident
NEWS: YIMBY Fort Collins Complicit in Recent Dissolution of Local Sierra Club Group
YIMBY Fort Collins Executes a Hostile Takeover of 30-year Old Local Sierra Club Poudre Canyon Group (PCG), Leading to PCG’s Purposeful Dissolution by an Unelected, YIMBY-centric State Sierra Club Steering Committee.
Video Caption: Dr. Cory Carroll, MD, former Chair of the Poudre Canyon Group of the Sierra Club (PCG) speaks to the Fort Collins City Council on September 2, 2025, days after the PCG was dissolved by the Sierra Club State Chapter. According to video evidence, at least one Fort Collins City Councilmember, Julie Pignataro, and one D1 Council candidate, Chris Conway, seem to have played a role in PCG's dissolution, perhaps as possible retaliation for PCG's past endorsements.
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Our mission is to preserve Fort Collins’ high quality of life for the benefit of all our city’s residents.
Fort Collins’ quality of life is at risk, under pressure from big-money interests and a government all too willing to go along with them. Together, we can turn this around.
PFC is a movement for thousands of our neighbors. Whether you’re most comfortable contributing time to help achieve our advocacy goals, money to help us grow, or energy to put political pressure on our governments to change, we need you on our team.
Learn about the dark money that funds the YIMBY national organization, which in turn provides money to local chapters like YIMBY Fort Collins.
YIMBYism is Code for Gentrification with David Fields (Podcast), Macro N Cheese Macroeconomics Podcast
Recommended Book: Broken City: Land Speculation, Inequality, and Urban Crisis, by Patrick Condon
Analyzes the skyrocketing urban land prices driving our global housing market.
How can urban housing, and the land underneath, now account for half of all global wealth? According to Patrick Condon in Broken City, the simple answer is that land has become an asset rather than a utility. If the rich only indulged themselves with gold, jewels, and art, we wouldn’t have a global housing crisis. But once global capital markets realized land was a good speculative investment, runaway housing costs ensued.
What is a YIMBY (Hint: It’s not good), by Housing is a Human Right-The Aids Healthcare Foundation
The Case Against YIMBYism: Why encouraging more private development won’t solve the housing crisis, The New Republic
The Only Thing Worse Than A NIMBY Is A YIMBY, Current Affairs magazine
YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market “Solutions” to the Nation’s Housing Crisis: Anti-displacement activists hate them. Tech firms and big developers love them—and shower them with cash., In These Times magazine
YIMBYs: The Darlings of the Real Estate Industry: The Yes In My Back Yard redevelopment movement centers on the real estate industry, not the poor and middle class, Truthout magazine
The Problem with YIMBY, The San Francisco Examiner
YIMBYism: There’s a Whole Lot of Shilling Going On, CityWatch Los Angeles
The movement opposing NIMBYism is powerful, but morally baffling (Op-ed), The Vancouver Sun
YIMBYs Need To Get Their House in Order, The Stanford Review
Airbnb, YIMBYs, and the Pro-Housing, Anti-Human Movement, David Friedlander-Medium
Update: we have no idea why this was taken offline. If anyone knows, please contact us: “SUBDIVIDE AND CONQUER: The realities of HOME” (Trailer); A Must Watch! This documentary shows the havoc and divisiveness that the YIMBY agenda has wreaked in Austin, TX, with almost identical Land Use revisions. This might as well have been filmed in Fort Collins.
News & Updates
What is the YIMBY national org (501c4), and why are YIMBYs endorsing Fort Collins City Council candidates in our local election?
Several community members asked for answers in front of Fort Collins City Council last night (9/19/2023) about YIMBY Action, a national organization that is working to have a disproportionate influence our local council election, and particularly our local land use. YIMBY Action is a pro-development, pro-density organization that uses ‘people-centric’ language to mask their corporate-centric agenda, and they are endorsing a slate of candidates in our local election. YIMBY Action’s process is to “shape the candidates they endorse” and are also likely to back them with dark money. Fort Collins needs representatives who are shaped by our neighbors and the local community and not beholden to a national movement who views housing as a commodity and doesn’t care about our community.
Residents ask: “What is the YIMBY national org (501c4), and why are YIMBYs endorsing Fort Collins City Council candidates?”
Residents ask: “What is the YIMBY national org (501c4), and why are YIMBYs endorsing Fort Collins City Council candidates?”
One Councilmember responds to residents who ask: “What is the YIMBY national org (501c4), and why are YIMBYs endorsing Fort Collins City Council candidates?”
“Fort Collins’ quality of life is at risk, under pressure from big-money interests and a government all too willing to go along with them. Together, we can turn this around.”
— Ross Cunniff, former Fort Collins council member and Mayor Pro Tem
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PETITIONS RETURNED! - NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Dear Fort Collins,
Today, 93 Preserve Fort Collins volunteers carried 279 petition sections with 6482 signatures in 20 days. We delivered these to the Fort Collins City Clerk this afternoon who will now have 5 business days to validate the signatures to determine if we exceeded the 4228 needed for a successful petition. Thank you so much to all the volunteers, petition signers, organizers, and other supporters! This is what community and democracy looks like. We'll post further updates as they come!
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