Well this should be interesting
To get started, You can't just make up acronyms for your article, nobody uses BIMBY or YIGBY as words
Now let’s get to the crux of the article
It wants to frame the debate over building affordable housing as one between shills for developers and locals standing up for their rights to demand better of developers, and while some NIMBYs in this framework are fighting development for personal gain, most are doing so for “the community”
There is one major issue with this line of reasoning, there is financial incentives for people to prevent housing being built and those financial incentives are in direct contradiction with the needs of communities as the ever growing price of housing in cities like Sydney or San Francisco benefits the property owners while harming everyone else, forcing them out of neighborhoods by causing rents to rise as there is no substitution for building housing in our cities, if we don’t build, prices go up, it’s as simple as that. Nobody is arguing for a complete removal of public input, what we are arguing for is the removal of obstructionism done by property owners to keep their land values high. The Housing Crisis is a crisis because there are tens of thousands of people without homes, that is a crisis, people need places to live and they need to be able to afford those places long term
