The future is urban

Jeff Fong is a writer, technologist and housing activist. He writes about cities, technology, and the future at Urban Proxima, is a longtime contributor to Market Urbanism, and has been featured in publications like Caos Planejado and Progress and Poverty.

Professionally, Jeff was an early-stage employee at companies like Lyft and Postmates, where he worked on the problem of how to use software to move goods and people around a city safely.

Politically, he spends his activism mana serving on the board of YIMBY Action (a grassroots activist organization pushing the controversial idea that houses are good and we should have more of them).

Catty Freeway Survivor

I grew up competing in combat sports. As a much younger person, I was on the US National Judo Team and continue to train and teach recreationally.

Outside of training, I’m an avid reader and love a good sci-fi or fantasy novel (I’m a sucker for interesting world-building).