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The YIMBYs are coming: Inside the fight to build more housing and bring down home prices
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this post was submitted on 07 Sep 2023
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In this community, we believe in saying yes to:
- Housing
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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
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Would be nice if we could set limitations on how many housing units (like individual addresses) could be owned by any one entity or corporation. Minimize that ownership, and more mixed zoning might become more feasible.
I don't see the connection to mixed-use, honestly, and I'm a little confused about how a multi-level apartment building could be built by more than one entity, without creating another entity to manage construction.
I’m not an expert, but aren’t you describing condos? A person owns the interior, and the outside is managed through an owners association.
Yeah, I though of that, but the association (an entity) might still break OP's conditions, especially during construction when there isn't really separate interior units to speak of.
Forming an entity is the prescribed approach when you need to manage a project with a lot of stakeholders. The best next option would be some unholy web of contracts that allow a construction worker to move between units and build one on top of the other, and it's entirely possible there's some legal rule that says that can still be regarded as an entity because the courts don't want to deal with it if some legal action starts.
Condos could be pre-contracted just like any other home. And I believe condo associations are resident owned.
Ultimately though, I think the important bit would be that the finished inventory is only owned by actual residents. Which a condo association would accomplish.
See, that's more practical. I still worry it would be impossible for many people to buy into their own home as opposed to renting, but it makes basic sense as a policy idea.