[blog] The Case for Progressive YIMBYism (bettercities.substack.com)
[article] Ten years ago Canada stole the American dream. Now the U.S. is taking it back. (www.thestar.com)
The housing market is a prime example of poor management and a huge driver of Canadians’ inability to get rewarded for their work, he said....
[video] How Canada got stuck building low-speed rail | CBC Creator Network (youtu.be)
I don’t know about y’all, but I’ll GLADLY say, “Yes in my backyard!” to high-speed rail
This Is Public Housing. Just Don’t Call It That. (www.nytimes.com)
To tackle highest housing costs in the country, Hawaii's governor declares YIMBY martial law (reason.com)
[article] Canada likely sitting on the largest housing bubble of all time: Strategist (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
New Zealand’s Legalization of Incremental Housing Is Bearing Fruit (www.strongtowns.org)
[video] How to Turbo-Charge Your Public Transit | Oh The Urbanity! (youtu.be)
YIMBYs keep winning (www.slowboring.com)
Our Carrie Bradshaw index: Where Americans can afford to live solo (www.economist.com)
In 57 of 100 of the largest cities in America, the gross salary needed to comfortably (using 30% of salary) afford a studio apartment is higher than the national median wage....
Austin is copying Houston's playbook for making housing more affordable (www.businessinsider.com)
[video] When The Housing Debate Breaks The Political Spectrum (youtu.be)
This video by Oh the Urbanity! dives into the pro- and anti-housing arguments used by YIMBYs and NIMBYs across the political spectrum.
[video] Elevated Trains Are Good, Actually (youtu.be)
Parking Laws Are Strangling America | Climate Town (www.youtube.com)
This video details the archaic parking minimum laws in most US cities that mandate an overabundance of wasteful parking that could be used for housing, businesses, transit, green space, or basically anything else that isn’t a sea of asphalt.
[article] Silicon Valley NIMBYs tried to declare their suburb a mountain lion habitat to avoid having to build new housing (www.nytimes.com)
NIMBYism is a tool for the rich and privileged to maintain their wealth and status, and they will wield every tool in the book to block much-needed housing. When one imagines Silicon Valley, one might naïvely imagine a metropolis of futurism. What one finds instead is a sprawling den of NIMBYism completely at odds with...
[meme] I want inclusive neighborhoods where people welcome new neighbors (lemmy.world)
[article] Montreal struggles to get developers behind plan for affordable housing at Blue Bonnets site (www.cbc.ca)
Montreal, a relatively YIMBY city by North American standards, nonetheless has inclusionary zoning rule that are making it unprofitable for developers to develop a large vacant plot of land that the city is trying to get developed. The city hopes to have 6,000 new housing units built there, but they’re struggling to get any...
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