The YIMBYs are onto something. But it’s not going to do the whole job.
Much of the recent debate has focused on reducing barriers to housing construction through a process called upzoning, or allowing developers to build more and more densely. Upzoning, for example, could allow homeowners to add rental cottages behind their houses or allow developers to construct midrise apartment buildings near transit where previously only single-family homes were allowed. Some on the left, once reflexively skeptical of developers, are now agitating to lift regulations on them.
Consider the dimensions of the current discourse around housing. As homeowners fight off new housing construction in the name of protecting the aesthetics of their neighborhoods and their property values—which, it so happens, upholds long-standing race and class exclusion—the path forward for renters has become the subject of bitter dispute. The YIMBY camp, for “Yes In My Back Yard,” generally argues that upzoning will unleash constrained supply to meet backlogged demand, lowering prices.
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