Planning Polity
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If you’re curious what urban planning will look like after YIMBYism takes hold, look no further.
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Planning after the YIMBY Revolution
What does urban planning look like after reform?
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October 27, 2025 at 8:44 PM
If you’re curious what urban planning will look like after YIMBYism takes hold, look no further.
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It would be un-American to bail out the Arkansas farmers. I say no more handouts to these welfare queens.
September 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
It would be un-American to bail out the Arkansas farmers. I say no more handouts to these welfare queens.
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“I don’t care how much you love working people. They can’t afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build. And zoning prevents multifamily structures because of NIMBY,” [Obama] said. www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/p...
Obama’s blunt message for Democrats: ‘Toughen up’ | CNN Politics
Former President Barack Obama issued a call to action for Democrats at a private fundraiser in New Jersey on Friday evening, urging those frustrated by the state of the country under President Donald ...
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July 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
“I don’t care how much you love working people. They can’t afford a house because all the rules in your state make it prohibitive to build. And zoning prevents multifamily structures because of NIMBY,” [Obama] said. www.cnn.com/2025/07/14/p...
There are ways to salvage local engagement in urban planning, and reform the local government.
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How to Save Local Engagement
Better comp plans, less meetings.
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June 14, 2025 at 5:21 PM
There are ways to salvage local engagement in urban planning, and reform the local government.
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How is the right wing reacting to the YIMBY movement?
Well, they can’t seem to decide between hating the urban poor or loving property rights.
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Well, they can’t seem to decide between hating the urban poor or loving property rights.
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YIMBY Discourse in the Right Wing
Spying on the ignored side of the YIMBY conflict.
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June 13, 2025 at 4:27 AM
How is the right wing reacting to the YIMBY movement?
Well, they can’t seem to decide between hating the urban poor or loving property rights.
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Well, they can’t seem to decide between hating the urban poor or loving property rights.
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Feel free to explain how blocking a project with 1,000 rental apartments on top of a SkyTrain station for not being affordable enough makes housing more affordable.
Yes, it does? Is this a neoliberal argument against price controls or something? Yikes.
June 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Feel free to explain how blocking a project with 1,000 rental apartments on top of a SkyTrain station for not being affordable enough makes housing more affordable.
Transitional housing is meant to be temporary, it’s implied in the name.
If we don’t reform our housing markets to allow for social mobility, how can we expect people to transition out of subsidized housing?
Being pro-housing-welfare but also NIMBY is contradictory.
If we don’t reform our housing markets to allow for social mobility, how can we expect people to transition out of subsidized housing?
Being pro-housing-welfare but also NIMBY is contradictory.
June 11, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Transitional housing is meant to be temporary, it’s implied in the name.
If we don’t reform our housing markets to allow for social mobility, how can we expect people to transition out of subsidized housing?
Being pro-housing-welfare but also NIMBY is contradictory.
If we don’t reform our housing markets to allow for social mobility, how can we expect people to transition out of subsidized housing?
Being pro-housing-welfare but also NIMBY is contradictory.
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SB 79 PASSES OUT OF THE CALIFORNIA SENATE! 🎉🥑
June 4, 2025 at 3:34 AM
SB 79 PASSES OUT OF THE CALIFORNIA SENATE! 🎉🥑
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Part of the hate for deregulation is because its association with Ronald Reagan.
But the thing is that CEQA is also the product of Ronald Reagan!
But the thing is that CEQA is also the product of Ronald Reagan!
It will never cease to amaze me that a significant number of people (mostly people who imagine themselves to be on 'the left') have adopted the view that "deregulation" is categorically bad, regardless of the intent and/or practical consequences of the regulation in question.
Right now, today, a broadly accepted urban planning best practice is to exclusively zone for apartments near wide, high-traffic streets that produce noise, air, and particulate pollution while reserving quiet side streets for detached single family homes.
May 30, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Part of the hate for deregulation is because its association with Ronald Reagan.
But the thing is that CEQA is also the product of Ronald Reagan!
But the thing is that CEQA is also the product of Ronald Reagan!
How should we facilitate housing welfare in our future urbanist utopia?
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Why We Don't Need Red Vienna
Our Urbanist paradise should have cash transfers instead.
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May 19, 2025 at 8:22 PM
How should we facilitate housing welfare in our future urbanist utopia?
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How should Oregon fix urban planning and promote our values? Here’s how we do it:
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It's Time for Urbanist Policy in Oregon
My plea for a better built environment.
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May 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
How should Oregon fix urban planning and promote our values? Here’s how we do it:
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There is strength in acknowledging nuances.
This doesn’t mean you can remain uncommitted to anything important under the guise of ‘being nuanced’.
This doesn’t mean you can remain uncommitted to anything important under the guise of ‘being nuanced’.
May 13, 2025 at 7:05 PM
There is strength in acknowledging nuances.
This doesn’t mean you can remain uncommitted to anything important under the guise of ‘being nuanced’.
This doesn’t mean you can remain uncommitted to anything important under the guise of ‘being nuanced’.
It’s alarming that empirical, attainable, and effective urbanist policy is being hampered by the addition of unjustified and controversial policy supported by only a handful of ideologues.
Your support for zoning reform shouldn’t be contingent on social housing.
Your support for zoning reform shouldn’t be contingent on social housing.
May 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
It’s alarming that empirical, attainable, and effective urbanist policy is being hampered by the addition of unjustified and controversial policy supported by only a handful of ideologues.
Your support for zoning reform shouldn’t be contingent on social housing.
Your support for zoning reform shouldn’t be contingent on social housing.
Mild discomfort is not a good reason to block someone’s home from existing.
May 6, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Mild discomfort is not a good reason to block someone’s home from existing.
Residents in San Francisco will complain that building housing will result in gentrification at every opportunity.
Mind you, the poor have already been priced out of the city without this feared construction.
It’s time for California to ignore this city, and let housing be built.
Mind you, the poor have already been priced out of the city without this feared construction.
It’s time for California to ignore this city, and let housing be built.
May 4, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Residents in San Francisco will complain that building housing will result in gentrification at every opportunity.
Mind you, the poor have already been priced out of the city without this feared construction.
It’s time for California to ignore this city, and let housing be built.
Mind you, the poor have already been priced out of the city without this feared construction.
It’s time for California to ignore this city, and let housing be built.
Developers are paying their fair share, and some more. Here’s why.
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The Controversial tax of Urban Planning: Impact Fees
My favorite subject, taxes.
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May 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Developers are paying their fair share, and some more. Here’s why.
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Good urban planning is crucial for decoupling growth from environmental destruction. Unfortunately, those who can’t imagine this relationship being broken are often perpetuating it.
De-growth has never been the answer.
De-growth has never been the answer.
May 2, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Good urban planning is crucial for decoupling growth from environmental destruction. Unfortunately, those who can’t imagine this relationship being broken are often perpetuating it.
De-growth has never been the answer.
De-growth has never been the answer.