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> My personal approach is to build up better and better datasets (simulated, some taken from open datasets like the Building Performance Database) to slowly but
by lj3 10y ago
> My personal approach is to build up better and better datasets (simulated, some taken from open datasets like the Building Performance Database) to slowly but surely force some evidence into these discussions.
You'll fail using that approach. The NIMBYs don't make their decisions based on data. They make their opinions based on emotion. If you want to change their minds you need to appeal to their emotions. Run commercials in the NIMBY neighborhood that show poor, disadvantaged low income families who would get to live there if the tower went up. Make them feel ashamed for opposing towers and they'll stop opposing them.
edit: Yes, this is a bad example, but the point remains. You must hit them in the feels.
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- snrplfth 10y agoAnd mostly, new construction is not for low-income people, just because it's new. Low-income people tend to live in older buildings that have depreciated.
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- snrplfth 10y agoSure, the idea at least of Section 37 is effectively "local compensation". Too often it's "councillor's goodies for constituents money", and it's not much help when the Section 37 park gets built a kilometer away from the actual development. And often the locals don't want change anyways, so Section 37 stuff is not enticing. Makes sense in theory though.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoI'm not sure you can change the NIMBYs minds, but you don't have to. You just have to get the planning commission to stop listening to the NIMBYs. You might be able to do that with enough evidence.
- philippnagel 10y agoI guess most NIMBYs would oppose low-income families in their vicinity.
- maxsilver 10y ago> You'll fail using that approach. The NIMBYs don't make their decisions based on data. They make their opinions based on emotion. Note that this is equally true of both sides. "YIMBYs" are just as guilty of this.