UNBELIEVABLE: Yimby - Caught on Camera

Reflections on Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's Privacy Fence

Don't expect the celebrity couple's battle with local planning officials over a privacy fence to turn them into YIMBYs.

Reason · Sep 22

The YIMBY-Libertarian Convergence

An eminent domain case out of Rhode Island shows how YIMBY regulatory reforms and libertarian constitutional law activism work in tandem.

Reason · Aug 4

Zoning scorecard reveals most housing-friendly city

A group campaigning for more housing construction has released an online atlas examining the zoning laws of each capital city in Australia.

AAP · Jul 12

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.

Reason · Dec 16, 2025

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 · Aug 21, 2025

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 · Aug 19, 2025

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 · Jul 15, 2025

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.

Reason · Jul 1, 2025

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.

Reason · Jun 30, 2025

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.

Reason · Dec 16, 2024