/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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Atlanta showing YIMBY effect
17:31 UTC
Is there any actual evidence that building apartments will lower property values?
Note: my question is about property values and not rent
16:50 UTC
Gulf war? No, what I said we needed was a GOLF war.
12:07 UTC
What is in the law books of Asian real estate developers that make small apartments look so amazing? And why can’t we do that in the US?
I’ve been watching a lot of Japan and Thailand apartment reviews and these small apartments look so amazing that you don’t even notice how small they are.
What’s In their law books for real estate. Wish nyc had more of this or SF.
15:36 UTC
People say that politics is the reason why nyc won’t address its super low vacancy rate yet there was a major shift to red. Looks like it’s time to aggressively attend to that vacancy rate.
The dems got played trying to play “protect the rich” and “protect the single family home”…
00:55 UTC
How DOGE Could Reshape Real Estate
21:38 UTC
lol once again elon musk shows that being a billionaire doesnt make you automatically smart in all human knowledge domains
16:56 UTC
lol this fool . SF has the highest homelessness rate because it has the severest antihousing policies
12:16 UTC
Rasheed Griffith show podcast episode about Madrid's YIMBY government
Caribbean Progress Studies Institute leader Rasheed Griffith has a good podcast episode with a guy named Diego who has written a book about market liberal governance in Madrid. Diego also alludes to some market liberal reforms in Andalucia related to urban planning, but doesn't describe them in detail
17:10 UTC
Pre-fab home of the future, descended from the log cabin
https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/2024/12/04/pre-fab-home-future-descended-log-cabin
A piece of actual encouraging news, perhaps? We all know that despite being legalized in a lot of places, ADUs are not being built at scale. This design could change that...the key thing being that untrained people can (allegedly) put these together. If true, that is a complete gamechanger, and may very well convince homeowners to add more housing to their property. Let's hope they can commercialize this at a reasonable cost.
16:53 UTC
Non-profit “Friends of the High Line” is now saving the park from … new residents?
16:24 UTC
Nothing an LVT and a little zoning reform couldn’t fix!
12:25 UTC
American cities are somehow both simultaneously over planned and under planned.
17:05 UTC
The start of Dutch YIMBYism?
I was digging into The Hague municipality's housing vision for a university essay and found something I didn't see coming: an explicit endorsement of YIMBYism, and a desire to create a YIMBY movement in the city (see the last sentence of the image) on page 99. They mention that people in the region are forming an action group to represent home-seekers' interests. The municipality intends to let them participate in planning procedures, instead of just the existing local inhabitants as is usually the case.
What I take from this is that either;
a specific civil servant in Den Haag is in the online YIMBY bubble, or
this is becoming a proper movement internationally.
Either way, pretty cool to see. The vision itself is pretty based in general, focussing fully on densification across the board (tbf there literally is no physical space to expand outwards) and combatting segregation (it's the most segregated city in the Netherlands), mostly by adding more affordable units in the rich areas.
Link to the housing vision (in Dutch): https://www.companen.nl/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/RIS318961-Bijlage-2-Ontwerp-Woonvisie-Den-Haag-2040-Wonen-in-een-stad-in-balans.pdf
16:19 UTC
Planning committees could be bypassed to speed up house building in the UK
09:00 UTC
Is mandating affordable units a bad idea?
The more I look into this, the more I agree with an expert on the UCLA housing podcast who likened mandatory affordable units to mandatory parking minimums: a fundamentally destructive policy that sounds good in a neighborhood meeting, but will ultimately result in fewer units of housing being built.
I get that inclusionary zoning increases the political support among progressives for increasing supply. But because mandating affordable units in reality limits supply by disincentivizing construction/development, I wonder if it’s showing the seeds for a larger political problem, which is much-heralded supply increases such as City of Yes failing to deliver.
I’m thinking a bit out loud here but anyone else concerned about this?
14:48 UTC
Part of my ongoing efforts to rebrand urbanist ideas as patriotic and pro-freedom (which they unironically are)
15:45 UTC