Rise of the yimbys: the angry millennials with a radical housing solution

Re:Rise of the yimbys: the angry millennials with a radical ... by clairity on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:20PM (#15386384)

i agree in principle to the yimby movement, but i don't agree with some of the antagonism described in the article against the mission's latino population.

isn't there a compromise to be reached between the two groups?

latinos want to stay in the neighborhood but can't afford $4K rents (who really can? or should? $48K in rent, yikes!). yimbys want more units. so give developers a sweetner so they can be profitable but also build more affordable units. i know it's harder than it sounds, but it's been done many times before, so it's achieveable. but when it starts becoming us-vs-them, that just makes it so much harder.

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Re:Rise of the yimbys: the angry millennials with a radical ... by readams on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:36PM (#15386534)

The fundamental disconnect is there's a (large) group of people that think building expensive housing is bad for the housing crisis. This is 180 degrees wrong: what's needed to solve the affordability crisis are more units.

Below market rate units ("affordable" units) are by definition always in short supply.

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Re:Rise of the yimbys: the angry millennials with a radical ... by justmyself on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:52PM (#15386737)

I want to live in Bel Air but I can't afford the crazy rents. Government, come save me!

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