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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]YIMBYs, Urbanists, Smart Growthers, and the like:

Can you cite and describe an example - local, municipal, statewide etc - in which blanket upzoning and deregulating development has actually resulted in stabilizing the housing market, decreasing homelessness and rent burdened residents?

I’m really not trying to concern troll here. I’m not digging my heels against the Greater Greater Washington types, I’m just skeptical. I could be convinced with some real numbers that the YIMBY idea actually works. [/quote]

These people don’t actually exist. They say they do, but it’s never their backyard.

During the pandemic, the urbanist, density types all retreated to the suburbs.

Live in a shoebox and a half dozen roommates, but still with your childhood room for the weekends (free vacation home), and feel like a big boy or girl, even though mommy and daddy pay for both and then the house they bought you in said suburbs.

Ignore what people say, and look at what they do, when real money and commitments are on the line. Easy to be for something that will turn a neighborhood into an investment slum, when you ditch the place anyway in a couple years.

Next ask them where they really send their children to school.[/quote]

Feel better now?

Meanwhile, Minneapolis is a great example of YIMBY success. Spoiler, it’s reducing parking that did it, not zoning (yet). https://reason.com/2022/05/11/eliminating-single-family-zoning-isnt-the-reason-minneapolis-is-a-yimby-success-story/[/quote]

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