YIMBY

Ilya Somin | 12.16.2024 6:56 PM

In a helpful recent Vox article, Rachel Cohen suggests the "YIMBY" ("yes in my backyard") housing deregulation movement may be "divided against itself":

These days, it seems as though everyone is something of a YIMBY: a "Yes in My Backyard" activist advocating for more housing and fewer barriers to making that happen…

Yet as three recently published books reveal, this YIMBY-ish agreement across the political spectrum can mask deeper divides, including about property rights, community development, and the very meaning of democracy in housing policy. Escaping the Housing Trap by urbanists Charles Marohn and Daniel Herriges of Strong Towns advocates for a slower-paced, locally driven form of development that they believe will be more sustainable over the long term. On the Housing........

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