In this community, we believe in saying yes to:
Typical YIMBY policies include:
Typical housing crisis "solutions" YIMBYs are wary of:
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.
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let's try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
Additionally, it is preferred (although not mandatory) to post a brief submission statement in the body of link posts. This is just to give a brief summary and/or description of why you think it's relevant here. Hopefully this will encourage more discussion in this community.
My city bans: converting single family home into two owner occupied units, as the city gets denser.
My city allows: international developer gutting a single family home into a 7 bed, 7 bath house to rent by the room at egregious rates by a corporate landlord, because it's still technically single family because there's only one kitchen.
These zoning laws are actively discouraging urban development that supports the residents.
Wow, 2 links in the post to the meme? love to see it!
