YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market “Solutions” to the Nation’s Housing Crisis
▻http://inthesetimes.com/features/yimbys_activists_san_francisco_housing_crisis.html
Zamudio now sees the YIMBY ethos as an oversimplification that doesn’t take into account the racist history of development: “They’re like, ‘Just build housing, you stupid brown people! I moved here last week, and I need a place to live!’ ” Zamudio has come to believe the YIMBY movement “is about developers and speculators who are starting to get a bad rap and need to rebrand themselves.”
In order to sort through the wildly divergent portraits of the YIMBYs, In These Times looked at the ideology, lobbying efforts and funding of Bay Area YIMBY groups.
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