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Why YIMBYs, NIMBYs, BIMBYs and YIGBYs all matter for democracy and our future cities

The right of everyone to have a say on development is at the heart of modern urban planning. But as homes become ever more expensive, questions are being asked about whether it is OK to oppose housing developments in cities. Battlelines are being drawn between so-called NIMBYs – people who…

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NIMBY Towns, Fake Parks, and Eminent Domain

Plus: unpermitted ADUs in San Jose, Sen. J.D. Vance's mass deportation plan for housing affordability, and the California Coastal Commission's anti-housing record.

Reason

Indiana Court Rules Burritos and Tacos Qualify as Sandwiches

The decision exemplifies a longstanding issue in legal theory. It also highlights the absurdity of zoning rules.

Reason

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From NIMBYism to an office building disaster that ‘never happened before’ to the permanence of remote work, real-estate execs ponder a sector that’s ‘defying gravity’

"I’m here to tell you folks that the headlines are real for office," CBRE's Julie Ingersoll told the Fortune Future of Finance conference about the "century-long phenomenon" of depressed office prices.

Fortune

The Catholic Case Against NIMBYism

Urban policy analyst Addison Del Mastro advances it in the Catholic journal America.

Reason

Andrews’ housing plan is ambitious and sensible — the backlash is not

The Victorian premier announced a practical housing plan this week, but it’s apparently going to kill people and impoverish single mothers.

Crikey

Bryan Caplan on NIMBYism and Economic Ignorance

Leading expert on political ignorance and housing comments on evidence indicating that ignorance, not self-interest, is at the root of most opposition to zoning reform.

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Desegregation Starts Here

Richard and Leah Rothstein’s new book is an organizer’s guide to integrating communities.

Capital & Main

Rise of the Nimby party: the Tory house-building dilemma

Critics have hit out at Rishi Sunak’s decision to abandon house-building targets, citing it as a significant factor in his party’s poor showing in last week’s local elections.

The Week

The YIMBY movement is shaking up Australian politics amid the housing affordability crisis

The call, both in Australia and overseas, for well-located, affordable urban housing is growing louder, but the NIMBY resistance movement still carries a degree of clout.

Crikey

Denver would rather leave a golf course vacant than build new housing near a train station

The latest example of NIMBY absurdity sees a Democratic Socialist join opposition to a plan with affordable housing in it because it doesn't go far enough.

Fortune

America’s most expensive zip code is taking a stand against ultrawealthy NIMBYs like Steph Curry and Marc Andreessen—in the smallest possible way

Every eight years, the state of California requires all local governments to adopt housing plans in effort to ease the state’s housing crisis, and this time around things are different.

Fortune

California A.G. Says Anaheim NIMBYs Can't Block Women's Group Home

State officials have been warning Anaheim for decades that their regulations on transitional housing were illegal. The city's rejection of nonprofit Grandma's House of Hope's group home was the last straw.

Reason

Are San Francisco's NIMBYs Finally Getting Their Comeuppance?

State housing officials have launched a first-ever investigation of the city's housing policies and practices, setting the stage for far more sweeping interventions.

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Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Building inspectors, historic preservationists, NIMBYs, code enforcement, and the right to make contracts.

Reason

How Demands for 'Local Control' Become an Excuse for NIMBYism

Conservatives' guiding principle should always be less government control, not more.

Reason

Beyond NIMBY vs. YIMBY - How Current Homeowners Can Benefit from Zoning Deregulation

Even if the value of their property goes down, current homeowners still often have much to gain from breaking down barriers to new housing construction.

Reason

California NIMBYs Are Ruining U.C. Berkeley. Stop Them Before They Kill Again.

A California Supreme Court decision freezing enrollment at the state's flagship university is focusing the public's fury on the normally obscure, but incredibly consequential, California Environmental Quality Act.

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Dave Chappelle Is a NIMBY

The comedian doesn’t want a new subdivision behind his house. Fortunately, he can’t stop it.

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