National Chapter Manager
I was house hunting in 2020 when the real estate market collapsed due to the economic uncertainty of the pandemic. Without that drastic drop in prices I never would have been able to afford a home, and even today I couldn’t afford to purchase my home at current prices. Over the years since the pandemic I have seen many of my friends driven out of the city of Richmond due to high prices and a lack of affordable housing with my queer and Black friends the hardest hit.
Wyatt first became involved in the pro-housing movement as a teenager volunteering with Caritas in homeless shelters and helping to rebuild damaged and dilapidated homes through the Appalachia Service Project. He attended the founding event of RVA YIMBY and served as a volunteer leader of the chapter for two years starting in 2022. Previously, he worked as the Policy and Campaigns Manager for Land Use and Transportation at the Virginia Conservation network, where he witnessed how exclusionary zoning was as bad for affordability as it was for the environment. Wyatt has a background of working in nonprofits and federal, state, and local government from DC to Honolulu. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Political Economy from the American University as well as a Master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
