23 October 2024

YIMBY index

Getting a start on capturing some YIMBY-ish resources:

The San Francisco tech boom crisis

Another index of mine, collecting articles specifically about the collision between the “tech” industry and San Francisco bay area housing & transit policy.

Authors Pull Back Study That Found LA Has More Vacant Homes Than Homeless People

There is a NIMBY canard that there is an abundance of housing, but it is kept vacant by landlords for poorly-specified Reasons. This is of course just not true.

“Working-class millionaires”: the housing bubble, inequality, and NIMBYism

“if the problem with house-price inflation and NIMBYism were due only to the economic self-interest – or “mind blocks” – of local body politicians and grumpy shopkeepers, it would be much easier to solve. The knottier problem is one at the level of the entire economy [⋯]”

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