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X · 🚨 Action Alert 🚨 City Council may decide whether to adopt a more flexible, future-ready Comprehensive Plan **this week**. This must pass!! 📬 Submit your letter: https://t.co/27ifxJMRIX 📍 Show up in person on 5/22. 🧵 Here’s what’s in the plan. 👉 https://t.co/2XMR12VVNx- X · Let Tampa staff know: housing affordability must be the top priority of the upcoming zoning update! This is a short survey to share what you want to see updated in Tampa zoning. https://t.co/6PkCefdBu7
- X · "Luxury Housing" is a problem--but it matters why. https://t.co/oLFfSXKhx8 @aboutherevideos
- X · Come in person to show your support and learn more about the upcoming land use changes in the comprehensive plan! August 13 @ 5:30 pm More details: https://t.co/CCtqiQO0XZ
- X · Write to your city council members to let them you know: you say YES to 93 new homes in a proposed development in Ybor! https://t.co/eiEShHsbHL
- X · Parking minimums are a big barrier to small business! Help us get rid of them 👇 https://t.co/n7ezwzPXpw
- X · Big news from last week: On second reading, Tampa City Council passed an ordinance that made ADUs legal in almost a quarter of the city! Thanks to our volunteers for sending over 100 letters of support for this initiative! Now lets take it city-wide!
- X · Gainesville continues to lead the state on housing policy. Changes like these have meaningful effects on availability and equity. This is an example of a basic reform that Tampa needs to adopt in our ongoing code reform initiative to fight McMansion Gentrification. Bravo 👏👏
- X · Join @CNUTampaBay , @yimbystpete, and YIMBY Tampa to talk about ADU wins happening around the Tampa Bay area Monday, June 3, 5 - 7pm @ AbleNook in Ybor https://t.co/JgYERXPqOC
- X · We're meeting at King State tonight for our monthly social/happy hour @ 6pm. Always the last Monday of the month! See ya'll there!
- X · 🥳🥳Humaira is the heart and soul of our chapter, so glad to have her working to make housing more affordable to everyone here in Tampa!!
- X · Anti-growth, anti-housing politics in Tampa push out young families and new neighbors to formerly agricultural and wild lands in unincorporated Hillsborough, destroying our environment This is bad enough, but they also put Tampa at the end of the line for infrastructure funding
- X · "Who's speaking for those people who don't have housing, who don't have time to come to public hearings, who are busy working" Our problems are not unique, and the solutions aren't either. We can address our housing crisis here in Florida! https://t.co/W6XvssZE3o @OhUrbanity
- X · We see you @chicago "Build Faster" "Build Everywhere" "Build Together" We need this! More action, less exclusion! https://t.co/fPizWA9dUk
- X · Great profile by @nytimes on the value of housing stability. Single Family McMansionization guarantees housing instability for renters. More housing for all means more housing at all price points for all stages of life, in all neighborhoods. https://t.co/3mnr81IXlk
- X · Tampa renters! How did your last lease renew go?
- X · Policy experts agree: We need more housing for everyone. https://t.co/A1yHuQVIJv
- X · [Action Alert 📣] Today, it's legal to build "ADUs" for Airbnbs, but not for long term rentals. Early last year, NIMBYs killed ADU reform. City staff are coming back with a scaled back fix. Sign up for this virtual meeting and show support! https://t.co/kfoV5WZlYT
X · We need more housing for people--not for cars. @cl_tampabay https://t.co/89zAPWBdj2 https://t.co/kW33seRCXs
X · Join @FLRising, us, and others tomorrow morning at City Council to secure ACTION on affordable housing. https://t.co/czXCbvFgrx
How we work
Reform the rules
Back zoning reform and streamlined permitting so more homes are legal to build, especially near transit and jobs.
Educate & engage
Turn out residents to the meetings that matter and make it easy to take a pro-housing position on local projects.
Build partnerships
Work with neighbors, labor, faith groups, and builders toward a shared abundant-housing agenda.
YIMBY Tampa is a chapter of YIMBY Action.
One of the local groups organizing for more homes across the country, backed by the national team.