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It’s amazing how little inefficient land use/NIMBYism is discussed in American politics. It is actually even more important than healthcare as a cost of living
by alexrtan 4y ago
It’s amazing how little inefficient land use/NIMBYism is discussed in American politics. It is actually even more important than healthcare as a cost of living issue. Especially for young people living in major cities.
- tomuli38 4y agoI mean it's basic "got mine, fuck you". The story of history, then we rewrite the narrative to paint the rich as virtuous and self-sacrificing after the fact. The assumptions that others would swallow such narratives is the amazing bit.
- plankers 4y agowell it's not discussed much because it's handled at a strictly local level. you don't get a national or even state-level conversation about what goes on in town hall public planning meetings. the article advocates for bringing housing planning under state jurisdiction: >The hypocrisy itself is galling, if informative. Andreessen might well support legislation upzoning neighborhoods across California. This macro-micro disconnect should push policy makers to grasp that they cannot reason with NIMBYs on a project-by-project basis. They have to eliminate NIMBYism’s veto power by moving decision-making to the state level.