Bend YIMBY

Bethesda?!?

October 6th, 6-8PM Bevel Brewing Honoring World Habitat Day

This evening we will be remembering our friends, family, neighbors and everyone else who has been pushed out of Bend because of high housing prices.

Bevel Brewing at 6PM, Monday October 6th

Why Bend Needs Neighborhood Commercial — Central Oregon LandWatch

Thanks to the work of @landwatch.bsky.social creating this page explaining the idea of "re-legalizing" neighborhood commercial in Bend. Please sign the petition!

www.centraloregonlandwatch.org/neighborhood...

Anyone in Bend know some people in California who might be willing to call? No one here has any California connections... right? 🤔

If I can’t park <block away from my destination I’m not going there anymore!

It's time to remember the people we've seen forced out of their homes because of the high cost of living here.

This Monday, the 6th, at 6pm, at Bevel Brewing. Let's pour one out for those who have been forced to move away.

#yimby #bendoregon

Pew finds something that everybody in codes and standards knows but few will say out loud: we apply far stricter fire safety standards to apartments than to houses. www.pew.org/en/research-...

Bend YIMBY sign securely strapped to my eBike

It has been a minor source of irritation not being able to get all the Bend YIMBY materials to our meetups on my eBike. I think I have something figured out now!

Join us this (24th) evening: Wildwood @ The Box Factor (upstairs) @ 5:30 PM onwards.

@jheylin.bsky.social and Ian will talk YIMBYTown

Bend YIMBY News - 9/23/2025 Bend / Oregon

Our latest news roundup from Bend, Oregon and elsewhere, including details about our latest meetup tomorrow (Wednesday)

bendyimby.substack.com/p/bend-yimby...

Bend Chamber hopes to ease housing shortage by offering library of pre-approved accessory dwelling unit (ADU) designs to public (Update: adding video, adding interview with Bend Chamber, City of Bend, and Bend YIMBY) BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- As Bend’s population continues to grow, so does the pressure on housing. Now, officials ar...

Check out chapter lead Ian on KTVZ!

ktvz.com/news/bend/20...

Speaking in support of an ADU design library

Kristin from @landwatch.bsky.social has done the heavy lifting with this one - it's great to work together!

If you're on FB, please RSVP here so we have an idea of how many people will be present: www.facebook.com/events/79554...

Next meetup:

Ian and @jheylin.bsky.social just got back from @yimbytown.bsky.social in New Haven, and are going to lead a discussion about what they learned, who they met and what's happening in other places. Should be really interesting!

September 24, 5:30 PM on, Wildwood Bar and Grill

Zero. Nowhere to go but up.

Zoning broke our brains Legalizing healthy infrastructure is the first step in the path to recovery.

Zoning broke our brains, and legalizing healthy infrastructure is the first step in the path to recovery.

www.urbanismspeakeasy.com/p/zoning-bro...

Depends on a ton of factors and even in a perfect environment with a high end rifle the shooter makes all the difference. It’s a very precise process and being off the mark by a tiny fraction results in a miss, especially on shots longer than 50 yards.

Fittingly, the YIMBYtown express* leaves DC passing through NoMa, the YIMBYest neighborhood in the US.
* not really, but that should be are train.

What happens in the California housing market doesn't stay there, so in Oregon we're really grateful for this effort from our friends in California

This is not true. Blackstone owns 0.06% of the single family homes in America. There is no market where they own more than 1% of the homes.

Nobody has a monopoly on housing. 2/3 of American households own their homes and rental housing is a VERY diversified and competitive industry.

Sorry couldn’t resist after reading Newport Market’s messsge today

Our former rep lives in Arizona? Who knew?

And one of our own will be a presenter!

@jheylin.bsky.social

I think it's going to be great! One reason I have much higher hopes for YIMBYtown than Abundance Conference is I'll actually be moderating a panel at the former about how left-YIMBYs should respond to incipient fascism.

What Montana Can Teach Us About Housing Reform Two years ago, lawmakers in the Big Sky State passed one of the most comprehensive state-level housing reform packages in the country. This year, they doubled down on their success.

New from me, a summary of Montana's recent housing policy wins, which are nearly as impressive as the 2023 Montana Miracle: www.governing.com/urban/what-m...

Single stair code reform is on our doorstep. The expected pushback is coming from the fire bureau. What’s your best response to their argument?

I do think showing up to City Council meetings with those photos and saying "the French figured out how to do this and you're telling me you can't?" Would work in a lot places tbqh

We’re going to get both!

Great piece that explains so much public investment behavior right now. We posit that part of the problem is that the markets are only now starting to feel the impacts of the bizarre economic demands of the administration and the first major impacts will be obscured by false data.

An absurdly backwards way of funding the system. EV owners already pay a significantly higher registration fee that disincentivizes lower VMT. Why not dump the gas tax and charge all vehicles a weight/mile fee like we’ve long done for freight? Drive a heavy vehicle lots of miles pay more $.

Guess which age group is the fastest growing homeless segment?