Between the passage of Minneapolis 2040, legislation introduced by California Senator Scott Wiener, London Breed’s push to streamline the development approval process in San Francisco, and renewed federal interest in [...]
Rent Check 1. California Senator Scott Wiener, author of SB 827, has a new bill, SB 50, that borrows from his previous legislation to increase density and housing opportunity in [...]
A wealth of research is available showing that NIMBY homeowners restrict housing development, either at the ballot box or their local zoning board meeting, for their financial gain. That’s what [...]
California State Senator Scott Wiener’s revolutionary SB 827, which would have dramatically upzoned land near public transit stations (covering much of the land in the Golden State’s cities) died in [...]
Rent Check 1. NIMBYism meets paternalism: why it's wrong to prevent residents from choosing underground housing. 2. Minneapolis 2040: one of the boldest comprehensive updates to a City's zoning codes [...]
NIMBYs are a fairly predictable bunch. Excluding those who make arguments in good faith that are nonetheless wrong, they are either unapologetically selfish (“it will reduce my property value!”) or [...]
Because land-use decisions are typically made plot by plot, the voice of NIMBYs in the decision-making process gets artificially amplified. Even folks who are otherwise supportive of more housing in [...]
Despite all of the arguments NIMBYs have in their bag of tricks, it’s rare to hear one actually use the term. Philadelphia Councilman Curtis Jones, who is trying to limit [...]
In only eight years, the first baby boomers (those born between the mid ‘40s and early ‘60s) will turn 80 years old. As they age, questions of where to live [...]
With most of the focus on the 2018 midterm elections on who will control Congress, it’s easy to forget about a number of important ballot initiatives across the country with [...]