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Yes in my backyard!
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In this community, we believe in saying yes to:
- Housing
- Density
- Public transit
- Renewable energy
- Alternatives to cars
Typical YIMBY policies include:
- Elimination of restrictive zoning
- Elimination of parking minimums, setback requirements, and other arbitrary density-decreasing deed restrictions
- Elimination of Euclidean zoning
- Elimination of "inclusionary" zoning
- Elimination of undue red tape that gets in the way of new housing and transit development
- Establishment of stronger "by right" development
- Replacement of property taxes with land value taxes (LVT)
- Construction of high-quality public transit w/ transit-oriented development
- Road diets, with more space dedicated to bikes and pedestrians and less to driving and parking
Typical housing crisis "solutions" YIMBYs are wary of:
- Scapegoating immigrants
- Scapegoating airbnb
- Scapegoating "foreign investors"
- Scapegoating "greedy developers"
YIMBYism transcends the typical left-right political divide; please be respectful of fellow YIMBYs with differing political views. That said, please report anyone saying anything hateful or bigoted.
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- More Flexible Zoning Helps Contain Rising Rents
- Constraints on City and Neighborhood Growth: The Central Role of Housing Supply
- Progressive Cities Aren't Living Up To Their Values
- Local Effects of Large New Apartment Buildings in Low-Income Areas
- The Origins of Inequality, and Policies to Contain It
- Progress and Poverty
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They never even explain what YIMBY is.
YIMBY is the opposite of NIMBY. “Yes In My Back Yard” Basically people that are for HUD/affordable housing development, for rezoning from single family to multiplexes, etc.
NIMBY means Not In My Back Yard, so YIMBY says stfu yes, you.
And the article does say that in fact.
"At the same time, Green's sweeping invocation of executive, emergency powers—a sort of "yes in my backyard" (YIMBY) martial law—is provoking concern from an equally bipartisan group of critics."