this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2023
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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.
Reading List
- Housing Breaks People’s Brains
- The Problem With Everything-Bagel Liberalism
- Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation
- An Airbnb collapse won’t fix America’s housing shortage
- Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot
- 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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I’d rather freeze to death in a tent than live near that many people.
The suburbs are too dense for me.
Where you live is a compromise. I want to have 100 square miles all my own, with my front door on Time's square. (I'm using times square as a proxy for a desirable place to live, but since I've never been there I don't know if that is actually where I'd want to live) That isn't possible, but it is what I want. Sometimes I want to live on Broadway so those famous shows are easy to get to. Sometimes I want to live where I can safely shoot a gun off my back deck. When I feel like seeing people I want to live where there are a lot of people, when I feel like being alone I want to be far from civilization - yet I still want electric service. Everyone has forms of the above. suburbs are one compromise answer.
That's the neat part: I don't really ever want to be around people. Yes, theaters and museums and clubs are nice, but there's still too goddamn many people and it stops being appealing when I realize I've got to deal with a bunch of psychotic apes.
I'll drag the solar panels out to the boonies myself if want electricity. I just do not want to be around people. If they're half as awful as I am they're not worth it.
I was going to reply with my usual pro city stuff but then I recognized your name and realized we'd already had the whole conversation. So, uh, hello again. Hope you're making progress on your mountain home dreams.