This Is Public Housing. Just Don’t Call It That.

www.nytimes.com

cross-posted to:
[email protected]

This Is Public Housing. Just Don’t Call It That.

www.nytimes.com

@psychothumbs to

Yes in my backyard!English • 1 year ago

cross-posted to:
[email protected]

Montgomery County, Md., like many places, has an affordable housing crisis. So it started acting like a benevolent real estate investor.

You must log in or register to comment.

Chat

Yes in my backyard!

[email protected]

Create a post

You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: [email protected]

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

Viewing List

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

1 user / day
1 user / week
5 users / month
108 users / 6 months
337 subscribers
88 Posts
127 Comments
Modlog

mods:
@Fried_out_Kombi