To be fair, conservative NIMBYs are also a disease
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You can still be relatively more YIMBY and still car-dependent. The sun belt right now is literally that – they’ve built much more housing since the pandemic but it’s largely been the same, suburbanized car-dependent urban planning that they just let sprawl out. But you can only sprawl so far – there very much is a “suburban frontier” that is starting to become reached and now places like the Atlanta metro are becoming unaffordable as building through sprawl is unsustainable.
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To be fair, conservative NIMBYs are also a disease
You can still be relatively more YIMBY and still car-dependent. The sun belt right now is literally that – they’ve built much more housing since the pandemic but it’s largely been the same, suburbanized car-dependent urban planning that they just let sprawl out. But you can only sprawl so far – there very much is a “suburban frontier” that is starting to become reached and now places like the Atlanta metro are becoming unaffordable as building through sprawl is unsustainable.