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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Nimby - What They Never Told You

War zone: battle over plans to ease housing crisis

In a scene playing out across the country, passionate locals have filed into a town hall and taken up battle positions to fix housing affordability woes.

AAP · Oct 1, 2025

NIMBY Lawsuit Accidentally Abolishes City's Entire Zoning Code

Plus: The Supreme Court declines to hear major eviction moratorium case, Maine passes zoning reform, and why tourist traps are good, actually.

Reason · Jul 8, 2025

NIMBYism Stifles Housing Construction in Previous Growth Areas

In recent years, exclusionary zoning and other regulatory restrictions have begun to block housing construction in areas where it was once relatively easy.

Reason · Jul 3, 2025

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Those who object to music events shutting off parks are branded nimbys. But this time, I’m on their side

A high court dispute over a south London park shows the limits of private interests encroaching on public space, says writer Moya Lothian-McLean

The Guardian - UK · May 24, 2025

Lawsuit Challenges Use of Eminent Domain as NIMBY Tool to Block Housing Project

A Rhode Island town seeks to use eminent domain to block construction of a large-scale affordable housing project.

Reason · Mar 24, 2025

Families Need Affordable Housing, but New York Residents Use Red Tape To Block Development

With the help of New York’s environmental review law, local NIMBYs halted an approved housing project, adding to delays and costs in a city facing a housing shortage.

Reason · Nov 19, 2024

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…

The Conversation · Jul 4, 2024

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NIMBY Towns, Fake Parks, and Eminent Domain

Plus: unpermitted ADUs in San Jose, Sen. J.D. Vance's mass deportation plan for housing affordability, and the California Coastal Commission's anti-housing record.

Reason · Jun 18, 2024

Indiana Court Rules Burritos and Tacos Qualify as Sandwiches

The decision exemplifies a longstanding issue in legal theory. It also highlights the absurdity of zoning rules.

Reason · May 19, 2024

From NIMBYism to an office building disaster that ‘never happened before’ to the permanence of remote work, real-estate execs ponder a sector that’s ‘defying gravity’

"I’m here to tell you folks that the headlines are real for office," CBRE's Julie Ingersoll told the Fortune Future of Finance conference about the "century-long phenomenon" of depressed office prices.

Fortune · May 16, 2024

The Catholic Case Against NIMBYism

Urban policy analyst Addison Del Mastro advances it in the Catholic journal America.

Reason · Apr 5, 2024

Bryan Caplan on NIMBYism and Economic Ignorance

Leading expert on political ignorance and housing comments on evidence indicating that ignorance, not self-interest, is at the root of most opposition to zoning reform.

Reason · May 31, 2023

Desegregation Starts Here

Richard and Leah Rothstein’s new book is an organizer’s guide to integrating communities.

Capital & Main · May 30, 2023

Rise of the Nimby party: the Tory house-building dilemma

Critics have hit out at Rishi Sunak’s decision to abandon house-building targets, citing it as a significant factor in his party’s poor showing in last week’s local elections.

The Week · May 9, 2023

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Fortune · Apr 5, 2023

Denver would rather leave a golf course vacant than build new housing near a train station

The latest example of NIMBY absurdity sees a Democratic Socialist join opposition to a plan with affordable housing in it because it doesn't go far enough.

Fortune · Feb 23, 2023

America’s most expensive zip code is taking a stand against ultrawealthy NIMBYs like Steph Curry and Marc Andreessen—in the smallest possible way

Every eight years, the state of California requires all local governments to adopt housing plans in effort to ease the state’s housing crisis, and this time around things are different.

Reason · Oct 6, 2022

California A.G. Says Anaheim NIMBYs Can't Block Women's Group Home

State officials have been warning Anaheim for decades that their regulations on transitional housing were illegal. The city's rejection of nonprofit Grandma's House of Hope's group home was the last straw.

Reason · Aug 11, 2022

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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Reason · Jul 29, 2022

Short Circuit: A Roundup of Recent Federal Court Decisions

Building inspectors, historic preservationists, NIMBYs, code enforcement, and the right to make contracts.

Reason · Jul 22, 2022

How Demands for 'Local Control' Become an Excuse for NIMBYism

Conservatives' guiding principle should always be less government control, not more.

Reason · Jun 15, 2022

Beyond NIMBY vs. YIMBY - How Current Homeowners Can Benefit from Zoning Deregulation

Even if the value of their property goes down, current homeowners still often have much to gain from breaking down barriers to new housing construction.

Reason · Mar 14, 2022

California NIMBYs Are Ruining U.C. Berkeley. Stop Them Before They Kill Again.

A California Supreme Court decision freezing enrollment at the state's flagship university is focusing the public's fury on the normally obscure, but incredibly consequential, California Environmental Quality Act.

Reason · Feb 10, 2022

Dave Chappelle Is a NIMBY

The comedian doesn’t want a new subdivision behind his house. Fortunately, he can’t stop it.

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