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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]YIMBY = Yes In My Backyard = the opposite of NIMBY.

The pro-development, pro-any kind of housing at any cost, a movement that straddles the social justice left and the libertarian/pro-corporate right. Locally, YIMBY outlets include Greater Greater Washington, Just Up The Pike, and Market Urbanism Report.

The idea is that deregulating zoning and building everything everywhere, housing at all price points including luxury, will ease the supply/demand ratio and help solve the housing affordability problem. Criticisms from the right include potentially threatening property values of homeowners in wealthy neighborhoods and "social engineering", criticisms from the left include "shilling for corporate developers" and skepticism surrounding the concept of filtering (meaning that construction of new "luxury" units will enable wealthier residents to move into them and open up older, cheaper units for middle and lower income residents). 
YIMBY politicians include Montgomery County Councilmember Hans Riemer.

So what do you think of YIMBYs and their housing solutions? Does it work? [b]Does it benefit high-earning young professionals exclusively?[/b] Does "filtering" work? What are your thoughts. [/quote]

They love to preach to others before retreating to their Takoma Park home, safely protected from all this new development.[/quote]

You haven't been to Takoma Park recently if you are claiming there hasn't been a ton of new development there.

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You might want to check the jurisdiction. All new development has been in TAKOMA DC. There has been no new development in TAKOMA PARK, MD for decades and currently the community is embroiled in a massive battle over building a small two-story commercial building on a parking lot. The great county YIMBY leader Hans Riemer won't even weigh in - despite how ridiculous it is - but he's happy to tell everyone else except his own neighbors that they need to accept change. Profiles in leadership and courage.[/quote]

The building that Busboys is in is in Maryland. There is a new building coming in at the corner across the street from the metro station, on the MD side. The other new building across from the green is also on the MD side. I seriously have no idea what Takoma Park MD you are talking about.[/quote]

Is that going to be a high rise (more than 8 stories)? Near every other Metro station in Montgomery County, Hans Riemer says we should only be building high rises. Does he take the same approach in his own neighborhood?[/quote]

Hands Reamer?[/quote]

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