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The Flaws of 'Funded' Inclusionary Zoning

Taxing new housing will always reduce housing production.

Reason

Can Congress Get 'YIMBY Grants' Right?

Plus: The House passes housing reform, Florida advances ADUs, and Zohran Mamdani hosts show trials for bad landlords.

Reason

Localism and the Limits of Regulating What We Love

When the perceived emotional harm from new development becomes a justification for state intervention, the law gets really arbitrary really quickly.

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Manufacturing won’t save rural America—but one policy just might, says one of America’s most provocative economists

“We could do everything national conservatives hope to do for America’s non-college males, but through building, not factories,” economist Bryan Caplan told Fortune.

Fortune

All You Need Is Love (and Deregulation)

Building our way to affordable cities does not require a government-led "post-neoliberal" approach to housing development.

Reason

Barack Obama Wants Democrats To Be the YIMBY Party. That's Easier Said Than Done.

The housing crisis is bad for national Democrats. At the state level, it's a political winner.

Reason

California Enacts Sweeping Exemption to Development-Killing Environmental Law

Plus: Real rent decreases in New York City, the return of missing middle housing in Virginia, and how everyone's a socialist on housing in New York.

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How Texas Beat California on Housing

YIMBY policies in Texas have led to lower rents and increasing supply. The same cannot be said for California.

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Is the YIMBY Movement Hopelessly Divided?

Internal tensions within the movement are real, but far from irreconcilable. Litigation and political reform are mutually reinforcing, not mutually exclusive pathways to curbing exclusionary zoning.

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Texas’ high housing costs sparked a movement to bring them down. The fight could shape the state for years to come.

A new breed of activists wants Texas to tame costs by building more housing. But longstanding opposition to such policies remains strong.

The Texas Tribune

Yimbys hear this – simply building more homes won’t solve our housing crisis

The ‘yes in my back yard’ voices are getting louder, but housebuilding quality is more important than quantity, says writer and curator Phineas Harper

The Guardian - UK

YIMBYs' Premature Victory Dance at the DNC

Kamala Harris' promise to end the housing shortage and adopt rent control shows that YIMBY ideas are just one of several competing housing policy agendas within the Democratic Party.

Reason

Kamala Harris’s housing plan is similar to a Singaporean strategy

It won’t solve all, but “making the U.S. just a little bit more like Singapore can only be a good thing, and that’s what Harris is trying to do here,” influential economics expert Noah Smith wrote.

Fortune

Tim Walz's Other Stolen Valor Scandal

The Minnesota governor is being hailed as a YIMBY zoning reformer despite doing nothing of consequence on the issue.

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The Housing Theory of Childless Cat Ladies

Would a YIMBY building boom rejuvenate urban family life or produce sterile, megacity hellscapes?

The Guardian - AU

Up to 200,000 new trees needed in Melbourne to avoid affecting quality of life, research finds

Exclusive: Report by housing group says 24.3 hectares of residential tree canopy cover could be lost each year due to densification across inner city

The Conversation

Why YIMBYs, NIMBYs, BIMBYs and YIGBYs all matter for democracy and our future cities

The right of everyone to have a say on development is at the heart of modern urban planning. But as homes become ever more expensive, questions are being asked about whether it is OK to oppose housing developments in cities. Battlelines are being drawn between so-called NIMBYs – people who…

Fortune

Building more housing is a top priority in these 10 YIMBY cities, Pacaso says

Residents of these cities are saying “yes, in my backyard” to new housing development.

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Conflicting Evidence on Public Support for YIMBY Zoning Reform

Recent studies diverge on the extent to which public opinion backs policies that would deregulate housing construction. YIMBYs would do well to learn from both.

Reason

The YIMBY Napkin

Checking the credibility of Hsieh-Moretti the lazy way. Third in a series of guest-blogging posts.

The Guardian - AU

Nimbys v Yimbys: the affluent inner Melbourne suburbs that aren’t pulling their weight on housing

Exclusive: Housing advocacy group says amenity-rich eastern suburbs must be rezoned to accommodate thousands of new homes

Reason

Cross-Ideological YIMBY Coalition Defies Increasing Polarization—So Far

The New York Times and the Atlantic report on how the movement to curb exclusionary zoning and build more housing has managed to cut across ideological lines.

Reason

The 2 Reasons California's YIMBY Reforms Are Failing

Plus: Ohio church sues the city trying to shut down its homeless services, another indigenous-owned megaproject approved in Vancouver, B.C., and a new report shows rapidly deteriorating housing affordability.

Reason

Zoning Board Orders Longtime Tenants' Homes Dismantled

Plus: the Supreme Court weighs housing fees and homelessness, YIMBYs bet on smaller, more focused reforms, and a new paper finds legalizing more housing does in fact bring costs down.

Reason

House GOP Threatens To Kill 'Baby YIMBY Grant' Program After First Year

The Democrat-controlled Senate meanwhile is proposing to expand the program.

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