All landlords are NIMBYs because every house built increases supply, and increased supply devalues their ‘investment.’ The solution to NIMBYism to slice throug

All landlords are NIMBYs because every house built increases supply, and increased supply devalues their ‘investment.’ The solution to NIMBYism to slice through bureaucracy and start telling landlords “tough shit we’re building anyway.” This is why China is building entire ghost cities and thousands of kilometres of rail a year, they won’t let anything get in the way of progress. In the West we deliberate for years over what could be, eventually start it, then make cutbacks when it goes way over budget and deliver a fraction of the original vision…