Zack Rosen
co-founder of California YIMBY
Zack Rosen is an American entrepreneur and a leading figure in California’s YIMBY (“Yes In My Backyard”) movement.
He is the co-founder of California YIMBY, an organization he launched in 2017 to address California’s housing crisis. He actively advocates for removing regulatory barriers to large-scale housing construction in order to make the state affordable again for living, working, and raising a family. In recent years, the organization has played a decisive role in passing numerous landmark laws in Sacramento that facilitate housing production.
He is also the co-founder of Abundance Network, which trains and mobilizes a new generation of civic leaders to modernize public action and governance.