the reason YIMBYs are so incessant about YIMBYism is that there is literally One Simple Trick to fix the housing crisis that actually *raises* government revenue and is environmentally friendly. we just need to legalize housing - ThreadSky

samd.bsky.social • 6 days ago

the reason YIMBYs are so incessant about YIMBYism is that there is literally One Simple Trick to fix the housing crisis that actually *raises* government revenue and is environmentally friendly.

we just need to legalize housing

Reposted from M. Nolan Gray 🥑

Auckland went all in on YIMBY, and the results are clear: 43,500 new homes in 10 years, and rents down 28% relative to peers.
www.population.fyi/p/beyond-ske...

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lp7.bsky.social•6 days ago

📌

edgarageous.bsky.social•6 days ago

I've lived in multiple regions of NYS for 35 years and I am done seeing people being priced out EVERYWHERE and moving to purple/red states

NIMBYism pits neighbor against neighbor in the same way that GOP austerity does

The only "winners" are people who can live with blaming the victims

edgarageous.bsky.social•6 days ago

That is why I won't stop with YIMBY. I have a connection to the place I was born and frankly I want people to get to stay here.

airportline.bsky.social•6 days ago

Legalizing housing is a prerequisite for building public housing. It’s really in everyone’s interest.

jwgibbs.bsky.social•6 days ago

Housing Theory of Everything is pretty much true!

maxdubler.com•6 days ago

It’s a theory like gravity is a theory.

opinionhaver.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s Newtonian physics: no, it’s not technically correct for everything, and there are precise high-level questions where it will give you the wrong answer. But does it work for like 90% of all practical questions? Yeah, pretty much.

darjeelingltd.bsky.social•6 days ago

We’re literally going to descent into fascism because Jenny in Long Island doesn’t want a duplex in her neighborhood and people refuse to come to terms with this.

daphnelawless.com•6 days ago

My city. The job's not done (inner suburb gentrification millionaires are protected by "heritage protection), but we've won ground

bsamuels72.bsky.social•6 days ago

I’m w/ YIMBYs on producing more housing. Until one claims that “One Simple Trick can fix the housing crisis.” No! Maybe that alone works for mid-class people in the mainstream market. But millions of poor households—the group hardest hit—still wont afford housing. We also need lots more subsidies.

ivysorta.bsky.social•6 days ago

True. Even if increasing construction alone could solve housing for the poor, it won't do it fast enough. Building enough for the filtering process to bring down rents on older/less fancy buildings as much as needed would take a very long time and people are in need now. We need social housing too.

samd.bsky.social•6 days ago

Making it easier to build housing advances every other program, though. Vouchers go further, social housing can be built denser, etc.

sneptech.bsky.social•6 days ago

Overwhelming excess supply lowers the cost of even "regular" housing to be within reach of the poor

Subsidizing demand increases cost essentially every single time its tried, no matter the country, industry, time period

bsamuels72.bsky.social•6 days ago

Nope. Magical thinking. The market cant serve poor (i.e 3O% AMI) households w/o subsidy. At that level affordable rent doesnt even cover opex.
Who knows what you mean by “overwhelming” excess” but real world examples show marginal rent decreases in range of 10-20% which is great, but not enough.

mclean.bsky.social•6 days ago

And the policies help social housing too!

chickenfilet.bsky.social•6 days ago

But what if I want to cosplay being a rural farmer 15 miles from the city center?

madameennui.bsky.social•6 days ago

Not gonna work in NYC bc preservation groups are full of boomer NIMBYs too worried about the "character" of their neighborhoods to let any change happen. Makes it impossible to get anything built. I remain hopeful that can change however.

tomp7424.bsky.social•6 days ago

And fixes traffic, and homelessness, and, and, and….

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