The Democratic YIMBY movement advocates for reducing building restrictions to improve housing affordability. Critics view this as a centrist betrayal of progressive values, framing it within a conservative agenda to maintain elite wealth through regulation. Antitrust policy aligns with housing abundance, as efforts to remove regulations target powerful interests. The housing shortage exacerbates economic issues, worsens climate change, and contributes to homelessness, which is closely linked to low housing supply rather than other social factors. Resistance to addressing housing needs undermines progressive goals.
Antitrust policy and housing abundance are natural allies. The pro-housing movement aims to break up a powerful group's capture of the regulatory regime.
The failure to build homes fuels the cost-of-living crisis, worsens climate outcomes, reinforces geographic segregation, and drives migration of people and political power from blue states to red ones.
NIMBY activists and their allies help a landowning elite hoard wealth by preserving an unfair status quo. This is conservative, not progressive.
Research shows that low housing supply, not drug use or poverty, is the strongest predictor of regional homelessness.
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