WIMBY App: Building community around housing projects
"San Francisco, one of the richest cities in the world, has over 8,000 residents living on the streets. The number of people experiencing homelessness in San Francisco has become a crisis." – LexLab @UC Hastings
One of the main causes of homelessness and displacement in the Bay Area is a shortage of housing. One of the reasons that more housing is not being built is that “NIMBYs” are often able to block housing projects from being built in their neighborhoods.
Core Team
2 law students, architecture student, UX designer
Responsibilities
Led problem identification, brainstorming, app design, prototyping
How might we change the attitudes and opinions of people living in wealthier neighborhoods to accept solutions to homelessness in their own backyards?
🏆 1st place winner
The WIMBY app is a resource for community members to learn, inform, and engage in neighborhoods where a housing project is proposed. The goal of the app is to help more housing projects get approved to provide more housing, which means fewer people experiencing homelessness.
