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> This is completely false. A large portion of Bay Area home-owner voters are staunch NIMBY supporters. True, but it's also true that even NIMBY's are nominall
by TulliusCicero 4y ago
> This is completely false. A large portion of Bay Area home-owner voters are staunch NIMBY supporters.
True, but it's also true that even NIMBY's are nominally for more housing somewhere. Just not, y'know, wherever they live, hence the name.
- antognini 4y agoThey might be better described as BANANAs --- Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything. You see a few ideas repeated over and over in those circles. "We don't have a housing crisis, we have an affordable housing crisis." And "We have plenty of housing, but large corporations have bought it and are keeping it vacant." They do genuinely believe that enough housing already exists, but that it just sitting empty and not going to the people that need it.