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Yes. Its no secret that SFYIMBY and the SF Bicycle Coalition walk in the same circles; Vastly homogenous. More and more San Franciscans are figuring out how ca

Yes. Its no secret that SFYIMBY and the SF Bicycle Coalition walk in the same circles; Vastly homogenous. More and more San Franciscans are figuring out how cancerous SFBC is and it'll probably be another year or two before YIMBY is an actual dirty word.

tivert 3y ago
> ...it'll probably be another year or two before YIMBY is an actual dirty word. Hmm. I was curious and decided to google that, and found this: https://www.housingisahumanright.org/what-is-a-yimby-hint-its-not-good/ https://www.housingisahumanright.org/what-is-a-yimby-hint-it...: > To sum it up, YIMBYs started with a self-serving agenda: to force the production of more luxury housing that they could live in — no matter the consequences to working-class communities. To further their agenda, YIMBYs co-op housing justice messaging, but they’re not housing justice activists. In fact, they have a long, disturbing history of clashing with the housing justice movement. YIMBYs push pro-gentrification, trickle-down housing policies that generate obscene profits for Big Real Estate — and they’ve continually ignored the negative impacts of their policies on working-class residents. YIMBYs are not going away if politicians continue to support them. YIMBYs, put simply, are bad news.
- bifrost 3y ago
  While the organization that runs that website is cancerous, the article isn't entirely wrong. I don't believe that people who're pro-development are terrible but YIMBY seems to be a "develop at any cost" idea which is really not great. The people who're most rabid about it do tend to be the folks who coopt social justice messaging for causes like this, they exist everywhere. I should say I do know some people who are YIMBY and are also very good people. What we really need is MIMBY heh.

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Yes. Its no secret that SFYIMBY and the SF Bicycle Coalition walk in the same circles; Vastly homogenous. More and more San Franciscans are figuring out how ca

by bifrost 3y ago

tivert 3y ago
> ...it'll probably be another year or two before YIMBY is an actual dirty word. Hmm. I was curious and decided to google that, and found this: https://www.housingisahumanright.org/what-is-a-yimby-hint-its-not-good/ https://www.housingisahumanright.org/what-is-a-yimby-hint-it...: > To sum it up, YIMBYs started with a self-serving agenda: to force the production of more luxury housing that they could live in — no matter the consequences to working-class communities. To further their agenda, YIMBYs co-op housing justice messaging, but they’re not housing justice activists. In fact, they have a long, disturbing history of clashing with the housing justice movement. YIMBYs push pro-gentrification, trickle-down housing policies that generate obscene profits for Big Real Estate — and they’ve continually ignored the negative impacts of their policies on working-class residents. YIMBYs are not going away if politicians continue to support them. YIMBYs, put simply, are bad news.
- bifrost 3y ago
  While the organization that runs that website is cancerous, the article isn't entirely wrong. I don't believe that people who're pro-development are terrible but YIMBY seems to be a "develop at any cost" idea which is really not great. The people who're most rabid about it do tend to be the folks who coopt social justice messaging for causes like this, they exist everywhere. I should say I do know some people who are YIMBY and are also very good people. What we really need is MIMBY heh.