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Matthew Yglesias
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The best thing about the YIMBY movement is that 90% of the criticisms involve making stuff up.
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Aaron M. Renn 🇺🇸
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The most suspect thing about the YIMBY movement is its militant insistence that no factor other than zoning (and possibly rent control) has any material contribution at all to high housing prices. It has to be 100% about zoning, nothing else.
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Matthew Yglesias
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Yglesias (2012) dwells at length on demand-side determinants of housing costs, for example, but argues that measures like “make the schools bad,” “have no high-paying jobs,” or “let crime explode out of control” are bad ways to address affordability.
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Orn “Nullius in verba” Two
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Interesting, not sure your estimate is a good one Matt. From Grok: From a sample of relevant posts, it seems that a significant majority—potentially 80–90%—of original YIMBY advocacy posts mention zoning, either directly or in the context of related issues like permitting
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Ignoring baseline assumptions that are upstream from zoning but have class and power implications they would never dream of challenging is the fundament of econ brain
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