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Are there any YIMBYs here? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m a YIMBY, but strictly a left-YIMBY. I’m not opposed to working with liberal YIMBYs for the time being, and Georgists are actually fun to talk to. Yeah, they disagree with us but conversations at least tend to be productive.

We tend to agree that cities need to grow, and become much more dense and walkable in face of the coming challenges climate change will face, and we all resent how suburbs have been forced on us. Although I live in the boonies (thanks to nimbys in cities protecting their property values to keep people like me out), if I ever get the opportunity to attend an event I don’t want to go in with the express purpose of recruiting new comrades but more or less destigmatizing socialism by being there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

I thought Georgism fit under the Liberalism umbrella.