/r/yimby
YIMBY: content and discussion related to the "Yes in My Back Yard" cause. What do we want? Affordable housing near where people want to live and work! When do we want it? As soon as we can safely construct it!
What is YIMBY?
YIMBY is short for "Yes in My Back Yard". The goal of YIMBY policies and activism is to ensure that our country is an affordable place to live, work, and raise a family. Focus points for the YIMBY movement include,
Addressing and correcting systemic inequities in housing policies and related regulations.
Ensure that housing laws and local regulations are evidence-based, equitable and inclusive, and not unduly obstructionist of development.
Support urbanist land use policies and protect the environment.
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Rules:
1) Don't be rude or hostile to other redditors.
Rudeness, hostility and personal attacks towards other redditors are forbidden on this subreddit. Respectful discussion, from diverse points of view, makes for a thriving community. We have zero tolerance for insults or attacks on other redditors' character or identity instead of the soundness of their ideas.
2) Respect those across the political spectrums.
YIMBY is a big-tent issue and attracts people of various political persuasions. We guarantee that you will not share 100% of the views espoused by other YIMBYs. No ideology has a monopoly on YIMBYism. This also applies to NIMBYs; disagreement does not require disrespect.
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Lawns and car storage — name a more wasteful use of land
23:02 UTC
Strong Towns: We Are In A Housing Trap. Can We Escape?
21:32 UTC
How single-family zoning screws over renters for the benefit of mansion-buyers
18:33 UTC
Madison, WI and Greensboro, NC eliminated owner-occupancy requirements for backyard cottages
You are part of a movement that really does make it so more people can live in places with locked door and a roof. Even if each of these reforms only yields a dozen homes or so, think how proud you would be if you personally built a dozen homes!
12:39 UTC
Reminder: house the homeless
Homelessness is not the complex problem that conservatives want people to believe it is. You solve it by providing public supportive housing units to homeless people, immediately, right now, no questions asked, before working on re-integrating them into society.
The amount of callousness and cruelty towards the homeless that has become normalized among urban well-to-do liberals is appalling and sickening.
02:53 UTC
A simple truth
23:43 UTC
NIMBY "Progressives" in the wild
17:34 UTC
Chuck is talking shit
16:34 UTC
Sf nimbys
Is this for real? Yes it is. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/us/san-francisco-home-renovation.html
00:14 UTC
I went off to college and have become fully YIMBY-pilled
My university is spread out, not up. So it takes forever to get anywhere. Then there’s the fact that it centers around cars, and I have to hope that I don’t get hit every time I leave the dorm.
Still, much better than back home. Here, as spread out as everything is, it’s at least a bikeable distance.
Oh god, the suburbs. I’m literally trapped when I go home. There’s no public transportation, and it’s car centric.
I used to love the suburbs but now that I’ve been at college for a few years I think we definitely need to keep building upwards and making things dense.
02:59 UTC
What do other YIMBY chapters do about NIMBY-slanted local news orgs?
This is a really bad problem in Denver, and it’s really hampering our efforts to achieve affordable housing and avoid further displacement, and I’m not sure what to do about it.
15:43 UTC
New SF NIMBY brainrot just dropped: Basic economic principles are "naive".
I guess NIMBYs in SF are so jaded about rising rent they cannot fathom a simple solution exists. It's like a wicked combination of being a highly educated tech worker that you think you are too smart and that the world is just too complex for simple solutions like "build more housing" to work. Also shout-out to the commenter who believes it is impossible to build apartments on sandy ground 😂😂😂. I guess every middle eastern city should just collapse into the ground tomorrow!!
18:35 UTC
I went to a local YIMBY meetup as a skeptic, and I left surprised
04:24 UTC
Ottawa, Ontario considering parking mandate elimination
How does Ottawa compare in size to Austin? Did Calgary already do this?
03:50 UTC
NIMBYs getting downright silly in Colorado
01:43 UTC
[LIVE] AMA with Charles Marohn from Strong Towns about the housing crisis.
17:58 UTC