🌹The YIMBY Housing Question

Stable access to good-quality housing is central to human welfare, but housing in the US is marked by rising costs, displacement, and many people who have no home at all. A growing consensus in mainstream politics, labeled by supporters and opponents as “Yes In My Back Yard” (YIMBY), argues that local regulatory and political barriers to private housing development are the primary obstacle to housing affordability. In this perspective, deregulating housing markets will allow private capital to build more housing, leading to a fall in housing costs. This argument to “unleash the cranes” dominates current debates on housing policy and legitimates the most significant political efforts to deregulate local and national housing markets in decades.

Is the YIMBY program the answer to “the housing question”? Join us as we engage with the YIMBY argument, confront it with historical and contemporary radical critiques, and evaluate some of the frequent empirical claims employed by supporters.

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When: November 28, 2023, 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Where: EBDSA Office/Zoom
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