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Are there any YIMBYs here? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/askchapo@hexbear.net
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I’m a YIMBY. I think we need to build a shit load of apartments. I don’t care whether it’s state-owned or private. If we wanted to build a shit ton of public housing, we’d need to implement YIMBY policies anyway.

I don't really know if Marxism is relevant here, but I see bourgeois NIMBY homeowners trying to keep property values high at the expense of everyone else as a common enemy everyone needs to fight against.

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[–] 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Any world in which the US starts building public housing again is also a world in which it does buybacks of formerly affordable developments to turn them into public housing anyway. It's better for those buildings to exist already than not.

Preventing housing construction because it could be public (in a political climate a world removed from ours) is just accelerationism for housing.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    my interpretation of 'i don't care' is that you would be satisfied with a bullshit private contract rather than lobby for it being implemented in a better way, but i guess some YIMBY thought could be a strain of lesser evil/critical support

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