*Planet Money* asking if YIMBYism is doomed; pack it up folks, YIMBYism is officially cancelled.
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On a more serious note, it’s a pretty good overview one of our favorite topics around here. Gives a pretty sobering summary of strength and numbers of the NIMBY opposition.
dangerbird2 on
LVT fixes this lol
TF_dia on
Just received a call from the CEO of YIMBY.
They just ceased operations, from now on no more houses will be built, only the Parking Lot division is still active.
QuickBE99 on
It’s so embarrassing how far behind liberal states are on building housing. The rust belt won’t be enough after 2030 census.
KevinR1990 on
Reading the article in full, the general gist seems to be that the YIMBY movement is here to stay, but the NIMBY movement isn’t necessarily going anywhere either, and debates over building new housing are likely to be a lot more bitter than many YIMBY advocates may have hoped. What’s more, we’ve seen Donald Trump explicitly stake out a pro-NIMBY position and frame rising housing prices as a *good* thing, at least for people who already own property. That in particular gives me pause, as it tracks with a number of political and cultural trends I’ve observed in the last several years. The GOP’s growing pivot towards anti-urbanism and fetishizing rural aesthetics, often less for economic reasons than cultural and moral ones, has left it wide open to embracing NIMBYism, just as the environmental movement’s fixation on Arcadian rural lifestyles as more in tune with nature did the same to the Democrats back in the ’70s.
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*Planet Money* asking if YIMBYism is doomed; pack it up folks, YIMBYism is officially cancelled.
—————————
On a more serious note, it’s a pretty good overview one of our favorite topics around here. Gives a pretty sobering summary of strength and numbers of the NIMBY opposition.
LVT fixes this lol
Just received a call from the CEO of YIMBY.
They just ceased operations, from now on no more houses will be built, only the Parking Lot division is still active.
It’s so embarrassing how far behind liberal states are on building housing. The rust belt won’t be enough after 2030 census.
Reading the article in full, the general gist seems to be that the YIMBY movement is here to stay, but the NIMBY movement isn’t necessarily going anywhere either, and debates over building new housing are likely to be a lot more bitter than many YIMBY advocates may have hoped. What’s more, we’ve seen Donald Trump explicitly stake out a pro-NIMBY position and frame rising housing prices as a *good* thing, at least for people who already own property. That in particular gives me pause, as it tracks with a number of political and cultural trends I’ve observed in the last several years. The GOP’s growing pivot towards anti-urbanism and fetishizing rural aesthetics, often less for economic reasons than cultural and moral ones, has left it wide open to embracing NIMBYism, just as the environmental movement’s fixation on Arcadian rural lifestyles as more in tune with nature did the same to the Democrats back in the ’70s.