The reality is, NIMBYism is wildly popular amongst voters of all generations. People don’t like their communities to change. Everything else here is a rounding error at best in the affordability issue.
Blaming Boomers for affordability problems is actively unhelpful because it suggests when they are all gone we’ll just vote to have nice things, and that’s absolutely not going to happen because younger voters feel the same way.
The fix to affordability is to legalize supply, and we should simply say this rather than engaging in generational beefs that don’t matter.
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The reality is, NIMBYism is wildly popular amongst voters of all generations. People don’t like their communities to change. Everything else here is a rounding error at best in the affordability issue.
Blaming Boomers for affordability problems is actively unhelpful because it suggests when they are all gone we’ll just vote to have nice things, and that’s absolutely not going to happen because younger voters feel the same way.
The fix to affordability is to legalize supply, and we should simply say this rather than engaging in generational beefs that don’t matter.