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Everyone has a bit of NIMBY in them. I don't think it's a useful or constructive pejorative at this point. No doubt we need more housing, but not every growth
by thefaux 3y ago
Everyone has a bit of NIMBY in them. I don't think it's a useful or constructive pejorative at this point.
No doubt we need more housing, but not every growth plan is a good one and perhaps we'd get closer if we stopped the name calling.
- TulliusCicero 3y agoNo. A huge part of the problem is that people act like it's just normal to fight new housing in a housing crisis, that you're simply entitled to stop people from building houses in the city where you live. Obviously not every development is good -- I don't want to be tearing up delicate wetlands for condos -- but if the problem is just "there'll be more traffic" or "we need more infrastructure", then we need to be asking how to support more people, not if we should support more people. Normalizing NIMBYism is what got us into this situation into the first place.