In this community, we believe in saying yes to:

• Housing
• Density
• Public transit
• Renewable energy
• Alternatives to cars

Typical YIMBY policies include:

• Elimination of restrictive zoning
• Elimination of parking minimums, setback requirements, and other arbitrary density-decreasing deed restrictions
• Elimination of Euclidean zoning
• Elimination of “inclusionary” zoning
• Elimination of undue red tape that gets in the way of new housing and transit development
• Establishment of stronger “by right” development
• Replacement of property taxes with land value taxes (LVT)
• Construction of high-quality public transit w/ transit-oriented development
• Road diets, with more space dedicated to bikes and pedestrians and less to driving and parking

Typical housing crisis “solutions” YIMBYs are wary of:

• Scapegoating immigrants
• Scapegoating airbnb
• Scapegoating “foreign investors”
• Scapegoating “greedy developers”

YIMBYism transcends the typical left-right political divide; please be respectful of fellow YIMBYs with differing political views. That said, please report anyone saying anything hateful or bigoted.

Reading List

• Housing Breaks People’s Brains
• The Problem With Everything-Bagel Liberalism
• Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation
• An Airbnb collapse won’t fix America’s housing shortage
• Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot
• More Flexible Zoning Helps Contain Rising Rents
• Constraints on City and Neighborhood Growth: The Central Role of Housing Supply
• Progressive Cities Aren’t Living Up To Their Values
• Local Effects of Large New Apartment Buildings in Low-Income Areas
• The Origins of Inequality, and Policies to Contain It
• Progress and Poverty

Viewing List

• Oh The Urbanity!
• Strong Towns
• Paige Saunders
• Not Just Bikes

Posting Guidelines

In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let’s try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:

• [meta] for discussions/suggestions about this community itself
• [article] for news articles
• [blog] for any blog-style content
• [video] for video resources
• [academic] for academic studies and sources
• [discussion] for text post questions, rants, and/or discussions
• [meme] for memes
• [image] for any non-meme images
• [misc] for anything that doesn’t fall cleanly into any of the other categories

Additionally, it is preferred (although not mandatory) to post a brief submission statement in the body of link posts. This is just to give a brief summary and/or description of why you think it’s relevant here. Hopefully this will encourage more discussion in this community.

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