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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Cities Want 'YIMBY Grants' To Pay for Bureaucratic Busy Work

Cities are asking for federal zoning-reform dollars to pay for plans that might never pass.

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A New Bill Would Extend California's YIMBY Revolution to Heavily Regulated Coastal Areas

S.B. 423 would prevent the state's powerful Coastal Commission from shooting down affordable housing projects that comply with local zoning laws.

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Cross-Ideological Common Ground on Exclusionary Zoning

Policy analyst Justin Hayes summarizes the reasons why conservatives, progressives, and libertarians all have reason to support zoning reform.

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Yes in my back yard! Sydney and Melbourne activists demand ‘soft density’ to ease housing crisis

Disparate groups frustrated by lack of affordable properties are taking the fight to Nimbys as they campaign to relax planning curbs and reinvigorate suburbs

The Guardian - AU

How small wealthy suburbs contribute to regional housing problems

The odd headlines about little towns in the San Francisco Bay Area just keep coming.

The Conversation

In State Legislatures, Targeted Bills and Bipartisan Support Were Key To Passing Housing Reforms

Meanwhile, big, partisan "everything bagel" zoning reform bills that tried to squeeze through the entire YIMBY agenda floundered.

Reason

A YIMBY Victory in Montana

Montana's sweeping new zoning reform is both good in itself and a potential model for cross-ideological cooperation on this issue elsewhere.

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California's Builders and YIMBYs at Loggerheads Over Bill Cracking Down on 'Unchecked Sprawl'

Activists who would like to see more housing built and people who build housing for a living would seem to be natural allies. A new bill in the California Legislature is driving them apart.

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New bill seeks to limit housing sprawl in fire- and flood-prone areas of California

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Over the past half-century, new housing has spread into ever more far-flung parts of California – from luxury estates perched on remote hillsides to tightly packed subdivisions stretched over rural flatlands.

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Congress' $1.7 Trillion Spending Bill Includes a Baby 'YIMBY' Grant Program

It needs some work.

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D.C. Zoning Officials Prepare a 'Racial Equity Tool' To Guide Zoning Decisions

Local YIMBY advocates express concern that the tool, as written, is overly vague and could be exploited to stop development.

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This Renegade California Developer Wants To Build a 2,300-Unit Megaproject in a NIMBY Stronghold

A never-before-used state law might make his plans bulletproof.

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Are San Francisco's NIMBYs Finally Getting Their Comeuppance?

State housing officials have launched a first-ever investigation of the city's housing policies and practices, setting the stage for far more sweeping interventions.

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Eliminating Single-Family Zoning Isn't the Reason Minneapolis Is a YIMBY Success Story

Housing production is rising and rents are falling. But newly legal duplexes and triplexes make up only a tiny fraction of new development.

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Why Pro-Choice Blue States Should also be Pro-YIMBY

Atlantic writer Jerusalem Demsas argues that blue states can't give "refuge" to people fleeing abortion restrictions if they don't cut back on zoning restrictions that lead to sky-high housing costs.

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AOC Is a Fake YIMBY

The New York congresswoman has endorsed much-needed zoning reform, but also raised typical NIMBY complaints about projects in her own backyard.

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