alt Hacker NewsThe author needs to rename their organization to YIYBY (yes in your backyard).
The nationalization of every policy on earth needs to stop.
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State law recently increased my neighborhood’s density. It’s obliging these towns to do the same. I’m happy about both, which makes me YIMBY like the people in this organization
Let’s remember, CA is in a housing CRISIS. I feel an immediate urgency to build as many houses as possible in this state so that my young children can feasibly afford to live here without being an AI engineer when they are adults
More housing in region X will result in lower housing prices in region Y. The interests of people from region Y are valid.
You can accuse them of being hypocrites if they don't also support more housing in region Y but that's a pretty big if you have to prove there.
But you can't say their interests are invalid.
Are they appropriating other people's land and building in their backyard? That would be called eminent domain.
They just want everyone to build what they want in their own backyard.
NIMBYs might more accurately be called NIYBYs.