#NIMBY

Jane Lyons

janeplyons

I agree that the NIMBY-YIMBY dichotomy is a false one & often unhelpful. But then why this headline? This sucks so much and makes me so sad. The YIMBY worldview

A Dream Of The Reconstructed Polis Stan Acct 👁

csilverandgold

What will y’all do once coastal wokes go YIMBY tho? How will you justify your irritation with niggerlovers then...? I am being, um, harsh. But idk a lot of like

Mr. Zed

ZedScience

We literally teach kids about NIMBY (not in my backyard) central to the coal mining debate- among other things. We need coal for steel, we need pipelines for oil, but

Jake Anbinder

JakeAnbinder

I agree there are parallel universes in which it's possible to have a housing policy that is both slow-growth and redistributive. But if that's your pitch you need show how

Connor 'Mint the Giant Stone Coin' Finney

LeftistConnor

Well @NathanJRobinson true to form wrote a really lazy article about YIMBYism riddled with enough errors to make the segregationists at Livable California blushhttps://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/01/the-only-thing-worse-than-a-nimby-is-a-yi

(((Matthew Lewis))) fourplexes in yer parking

mateosfo

Why NIMBY pastoralism is crap: A thread about my time in rural America.For many years, I lived in a cabin in the woods. We had guns we used to shoot

Conor Dougherty

ConorDougherty

Palo Alto residents were so disdainful of a proposal for 60 units of subsidized senior housing that they organized a referendum, then voted to kill the project. Now they're getting

Sarah SB 🍃💚 🍃

sarahb711

There are a LOT of acronyms in planning. PDL, SAD, OAN, SHELAA for starters. The best of the bunch (sorry) has to be BANANA (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything).

Anton Dekom

heydekom

There's so much wrong with #NIMBY opposition to this project in Belltown. A thread.https://twitter.com/STCActionFund/status/1360392737292316673 The GoFundMe page is misleading potential donors. It claims that developers are "lookin

Michael Tae Sweeney

mtsw

Genuinely insane priorities on display, but revealing of the fact that the thing Californians really object to is the creation of new housing itself, not displacement or gentrification or any

Jerusalem

JerusalemDemsas

A new @DataProgress poll shows 60% of likely voters are in favor of public housing. But most places are offloading public housing units and Americans routinely block housing (affordable or

Keegs 🏳️‍🌈

LittleKeegs0

Might as well respond to this article that's been going around:https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/01/the-only-thing-worse-than-a-nimby-is-a-yimby Hey, I'm right here!Anyways, I've seen this confusion around many things. A simpl

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/OK, so. Let's talk about Left-NIMBYism. We all know about Right-NIMBYs, rabidly protecting their white-flight suburbs from Those People. And there are plenty of liberal NIMBYs too. But NIMBYs of

Coel Thomas🌻

CoelThomas

#Amsterdam is banning foreign tourists from coffee shops to decrease the amount of tourists in the cityThis may work to some degree, but will most likely cause more problems and

Central NJ Yimby 🇺🇸🚲🏙

YIMBY_Princeton

There is actually a major planning application in front of the Princeton Zoning Board of Adjustment tonight. For the proposed 190-room hotel at 20 Nassau St! Zoom link:https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81796334084 The Zoning

c flowers

flowersLFK

When it comes to a threat to our government locally, our biggest threat is actually on this week's #LawrenceCityComm agenda! This week's work session is discussion regarding the election of

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