Jeff Fong

Jeff Fong

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Jeff Fong is a writer, technologist, and housing activist. He was an early stage employee at Lyft and later took on roles in both product and leadership at Postmates. He writes about urbanism and technology at Urban Proxima and his work has also been featured in publications like Market Urbanism, Caos Planejado, and Progress and Poverty.

Jeff also serves as National Board Chair at YIMBY Action, an activist organization pushing the controversial idea that houses are good and we should have more of them.

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