YIMBY Action

Not only do YIMBYs want more development. They want less public oversight, less planning of housing development. How is that sane?

Yes, we need more housing. But we already have more than enough market rate housing (eg. top 30% of housing market).

Yes, we need more affordable to make the situation tolerable, but affordable housing typically meets the middle 1/3 of market.

What we really need is decent public housing, and a lot of it. Housing for the poorest 1/3 that is being displaced.

"Oh thats too impractical and takes too long this is a CRISIS!!!!!" is the YIMBY hysteria. Where the fuck were you guys earlier?

YIMBYs also aggressively target everyone that opposes their pro-market rate developer pitches and calls them NIMBYs.

Recalling the NIMBY term as a pejorative from the 1990's playbook which was on loan from 1970's really doesn't create a grassroots sheen.

I feel a little bad about those who mean well but ultimately don't see the YIMBY movement for the astroturfed bullshit that it is.