About us

We’re London-based YIMBYs. We believe in better housing for everyone. We think that everyone deserves a high-quality, safe and affordable place to live, and that the only way we can achieve that is to work together to build better places and more homes. YIMBY stands for “Yes in my back yard”: we support more affordable and better homes near us – all kinds of homes, from council to private housing.

We think London is an incredible place to live, but we have some of the most unaffordable housing of any major city in the world. Why? Because London hasn’t built enough homes for forty years - but it doesn’t have to be this way. We want to see attractive communities built to ensure London’s bright future.

Street Votes

Empowering communities for more and better housing

Based on the “Supurbia” proposals of the Greater London Authority and HTA Design

Street votes are an exciting idea to empower communities to shape their streets and say yes to more homes. They are meant as a supplement to the existing planning system that can be implemented quickly to give residents control and deliver more homes as soon as possible. 

The idea is that residents on individual streets could jointly put forward a plan to enable extensions and new homes on their street. This community-led approach will deliver more homes on previously developed land, in places with existing infrastructure. Street votes will also fund a new generation of council homes through a street votes contribution.