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](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/11/us-housing-supply-shortage-crisis-2022/672240/)
- [The Problem With Everything-Bagel Liberalism](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/democrats-liberalism.html)
- [Housing Constraints and Spatial Misallocation](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20170388)
- [An Airbnb collapse won’t fix America’s housing shortage](https://www.vox.com/technology/2023/6/30/23779862/airbnb-collapse-housing-shortage)
- [Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/18/upshot/cities-across-america-question-single-family-zoning.html)
- [More Flexible Zoning Helps Contain Rising Rents](https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2023/04/17/more-flexible-zoning-helps-contain-rising-rents)
- [Constraints on City and Neighborhood Growth: The Central Role of Housing Supply](https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.37.2.53)
- [Progressive Cities Aren't Living Up To Their Values](https://ourbuiltenvironment.substack.com/p/progressive-cities-arent-living-up)
- [Local Effects of Large New Apartment Buildings in Low-Income Areas](https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-abstract/105/2/359/100977/Local-Effects-of-Large-New-Apartment-Buildings-in?redirectedFrom=fulltext)
- [The Origins of Inequality, and Policies to Contain It](https://doi.org/10.7916/d8-t92w-f529)
- [Progress and Poverty](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55308)
# Viewing List
- [Oh The Urbanity!](https://youtube.com/@OhTheUrbanity)
- [Strong Towns](https://youtube.com/@strongtowns)
- [Paige Saunders](https://youtube.com/@PaigeMTL)
- [Not Just Bikes](https://youtube.com/@NotJustBikes)
# 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.
# Recommended Communities
- !fuckcars@lemmy.world
- !justtaxland@lemmy.world
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