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NIMBYism is a real problem in the bay area, but it doesn't sound like this one case was caused by NIMBYism. The people who would want to nix such a shelter wou
by philsnow 8y ago
NIMBYism is a real problem in the bay area, but it doesn't sound like this one case was caused by NIMBYism. The people who would want to nix such a shelter would probably want it nixed whether it was in their proverbial "backyard" or not.
- arthur_pryor 8y ago> The people who would want to nix such a shelter would probably want it nixed whether it was in their proverbial "backyard" or not i guess i don't have any more hard evidence at hand than what you present here, but my gut feeling is totally the opposite on this. i think there are a lot of people in SF (in the SF bay area in general or the city in particular) who would get behind this sort of program in principle, but who would be scared to be close to the implementation of such a program. i think this particular flavor of NIMBYism (overblown fears about e.g. safety and/or property values) is more prevalent in the burbs, and especially the more affluent suburbs, but i'm sure you get some of it in the more affluent neighborhoods and gentrified pockets of other neighborhoods in SF and oakland too.
- rhizome 8y ago>but it doesn't sound like this one case was caused by NIMBYism That's fine, I'm not interested in #notalldevelopment reasoning because my point was not to ascribe all of the behavior to NIMBYs. I was only countering the idea that "politicians, amirite?" is the problem.