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California YIMBY’s Brian Hanlon on what real estate insiders can do to fight NIMBYism

California YIMBY’s Brian Hanlon on what real estate insiders can do to fight NIMBYism

07/21/2017 8:22 AM | Margaret Fulton (Administrator)

He may have received the blessing — and the big bucks — of Silicon Valley’s biggest power players, but Brian Hanlon has one more demographic to charm: developers

Hanlon is leading California YIMBY, a nonprofit lobbying organization that aims to push pro-housing, pro-development policies through the state legislature. So far, he’s raised $500,000 from tech bigwigs like Microsoft executive Nat Friedman and Pantheon CEO Zack Rosen.

But developers have remained tepid, despite many sharing his organization’s goal of making housing easier and cheaper to build, he told The Real Deal.