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“SUBDIVIDE AND CONQUER: The realities of HOME (A Short Documentary)”
A Must Watch for Fort Collins residents! This short documentary portrays the havoc and divisiveness that the YIMBY agenda has wreaked in Austin, TX. The Land Use revisions are nearly identical as those revisions that have been proposed by the Fort Collins City Council (and now repealed TWICE by citizen-driven petition). Similar revisions include the weakening of public input, transparency, and process, and the subdivision of lots in existing neighborhoods to cram in multiple dwelling units where one home exists today. This important documentary might as well have been filmed in Fort Collins.
What is the YIMBY national org (501c4), and why are YIMBYs endorsing Fort Collins City Council candidates in our local election?
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?”
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.
Read more about the dark money that funds the YIMBY national organization, which in turn provides money to local chapters like YIMBY Fort Collins.
What is a YIMBY (Hint: It’s not good), by Housing is a Human Right-The Aids Healthcare Foundation
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
“SUBDIVIDE AND CONQUER: The realities of HOME” (Short Documentary); 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.
“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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News & Updates
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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