Source: The American Prospect
by Robert Kuttner
“The YIMBY movement is being touted as a major solution to the shortage of affordable housing. YIMBY stands for ‘Yes In My Backyard’, the opposite of NIMBY. YIMBY would alter zoning codes that favor or require single-family housing, to make it easier to free land to build apartments, especially affordable ones, and remove other obstacles. The Prospect recently ran a smart piece by Robert Cruickshank on YIMBY strategies, and our former colleague Matt Yglesias is obsessed by the idea. I don’t want to throw too much cold water on YIMBY, which can help. But we should be clear that it is only a small part of the solution. The housing shortage is massive, and curing it will take a lot more than YIMBY.” (12/17/24)
https://prospect.org/infrastructure/housing/2024-12-17-solving-housing-crisis-more-than-yimby/