As the affordability crisis in the United States worsens, a number of grassroots YIMBY (yes-in-my-backyard) groups have emerged across the country to mobilize against regressive zoning and land-use regulations. YIMBYism [...]
A home is the most substantial purchase the vast majority of Americans will ever make. But in the U.S. a home isn’t just a place to live--it’s also viewed as [...]
1. High housing costs increase poverty rates. 2. When do renters to NIMBY? 3. How states can prevent local governments from stopping development.
The outsized influence that residents have to influence local government policy over zoning and land-use regulations has given NIMBYs the upper hand, leading to the housing affordability crisis we see [...]
Homeowners and landlords are (usually) the big winners from restrictive zoning codes. When the supply of housing is artificially restricted, buyers and renters bid up the price of available space--a [...]
California’s high rate of poverty is red meat for right-wing commentators. But, in the interest of a more productive dialogue than “owning the libs,” let’s a deep dive into the [...]
1. London Breed's push to cut red tape in San Francisco. 2. New research: permitting process problems in the Bay Area. 3. Jenny Schuetz's tips for the YIMBY Rebel Alliance. [...]
In a post for Brooking Institution’s The Avenue, part of its Metropolitan Policy Program, Jenny Schuetz has a Star Wars joke-filled list of ways renters are “striking back” against restrictive [...]
While land-use and zoning regulations that impose outright bans on certain kinds of development are the first line of defense for anti-development forces in urban areas, the permitting process, both [...]
Land-use and zoning codes define what can and can’t be built in a given area in the same way any other economic regulation states what practices someone can or can’t [...]