The growing movement has even gotten its own nickname: “Yes in God’s Back Yard”, or YIGBY for short – a play on the “Yes In My Back Yard” movement that advocates for greater housing development.
“The federal government could be doing a lot more to really put the pedal to the metal, but this is a good first step,” said Laura Foote, executive director of YIMBY Action.
An attempt to disqualify a California “yes in my backyard” advocacy group has failed, quickly putting to rest a complaint that its leader falsely acted as an unlicensed lawyer.
YIMBY Law, a pro-housing organization, filed suit last week in Los Angeles County Superior Court, arguing that Newsom’s order illegally narrowed homeowners’ rebuilding options by letting local governments suspend key parts of Senate Bill 9.
Last weekend, more than a thousand people assembled in New Haven, Connecticut, for the 10th meeting of YIMBYtown.
The Silicon Valley town of Woodside declared itself a mountain lion habitat, preventing new duplexes under a state law. Facing ridicule and the threat of legal action, officials backed down.
Haney tapped into a shift that has been underway for many years, particularly among younger progressives... many believe that building more housing, at all price levels, is needed to combat the affordability crisis and prevent urban sprawl that increases emissions from cars.
We think growth is good. We think communities are like a living thing, dynamic and if you try to stop a community from changing it will just die over time, slowly and painfully
YIMBY members don’t look at the sad state of affairs and sigh. They look at what works in other places and try to make it happen here.
Surely, a middle-class family that had purchased a starter house several years ago would have no trouble buying a larger home to accommodate a shift to working from home and a new baby.
