There are plenty of liberal YIMBYs out there getting c___blocked by bipartisan NIMBYs who don't want anything to happen to the monotonically increasing value of

There are plenty of liberal YIMBYs out there getting c___blocked by bipartisan NIMBYs who don't want anything to happen to the monotonically increasing value of their real estate. But also, we have plenty of land if we could do something about all that ridiculous eminent domain that keeps us from building a high speed rail system. Ironically though, even in California's heartland, a lot of that land is in the hands of disinterested speculators as part of their enormous portfolios built during the Great depression and handed down generation to generation. I doubt we do any of these things though. Until there's some sort of phase transition in our political system, everything is gridlock all the way down with occasional spurts of disruptive innovation with calls for regulation shortly thereafter.