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Kamala Harris has an ambitious plan to build 3 million new homes. She'll have to get through Congress and local NIMBYs first.
The Harris campaign is making boosting the supply of homes central to its response to the housing c…
Eliza Relman
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Sweeping changes to America's aging power grid are on their way to help bypass NIMBY roadblocks and state infighting
The federal government in the last month has made sweeping changes to how upgrades to the power gri…
Catherine Boudreau
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Canada's First Nations are building the densest neighborhood in the country by reclaiming their ancestral land and defying NIMBYs
The massive housing and other economic development projects underway in Canada could be inspiration…
Eliza Relman
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No more NIMBYs: Inside the revolutionary battle to bring down home prices
The Yes In My Backyard movement, or YIMBYs, say that building more housing will bring down rent pri…
Eliza Relman,Kelsey Neubauer
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California found a way to ignore NIMBYs and build more housing
One affordable housing developer told UC Berkeley researchers it would be "catastrophic" if a law f…
Eliza Relman
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A 27-year-old Berkeley city council member wanted to build more affordable housing. Relentless harassment from 'left NIMBYs' pushed him to resign.
Former Berkeley city council member Rigel Robinson wanted more housing, but anti-development NIMBYs…
Ayelet Sheffey,Eliza Relman
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A color-coded map shows why Austin is fast becoming one of the least affordable cities in the US: Boomers have zoned most of the city like an exclusive suburb
Boomers' NIMBY-style zoning is freezing millennials out of Austin's housing market. The young YIMBY…
Ben Winck
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A former Beverly Hills mayor is so committed to keeping home prices high that he said the freedom to block dense housing deserves to be protected like gay marriage
John Mirisch said California is tolerant of "lifestyle choices" - like homosexuality - and argued s…
Ben Winck
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Wall Street loves the housing crisis. The nationwide home shortage keeps investors' profits safe.
Investors began buying homes in the past decade and raked in profits in 2020. Now they're saying in…
Ben Winck
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Millennials just scored a housing victory over boomers in the California legislature. The fight to solve America's affordability crisis is on.
California's single-family zoning law has been a battleground between pro-housing millennials and b…
Ben Winck,Andy Kiersz
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Obama pushed Democrats into their YIMBY era
Pro-housing YIMBYs celebrated Obama's support for building new homes and cutting red tape during hi…
Eliza Relman
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YIMBYs are having a moment
At a YIMBYs for Harris fundraiser, Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz argued his party is experiencing a …
Eliza Relman
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The deadly cost of America's housing crisis
America's inability to build enough homes in safe areas is pushing people to buy houses that are in…
Ned Resnikoff
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Homeowners are getting paid up to $10,500 a year to create 'virtual power plants' to help out stressed grids
A growing number of homeowners are getting paid to leverage their rooftop solar, battery storage, a…
Catherine Boudreau
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Kamala Harris is going full YIMBY — and housing experts are optimistic
Kamala Harris unveiled the first details of her economic agenda on Friday, including efforts to add…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Alice Tecotzky,Erin Snodgrass
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America's plague of tyrannical homeowners
Florida is trying to crush the local dictators ruining homeowners' lives. The rest of America shoul…
Ned Resnikoff
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Canada's bold plan to make housing more affordable is showing signs of working and could be a model for the US
The Canadian federal government is finding new ways to pressure local governments to legalize dense…
Eliza Relman
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Newcomers flocked to Zoomtowns. Now long-time residents are fighting back.
America's midsize cities exploded over the past few years. Now residents, new and old, are fighting…
Emily Cataneo
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The viral 'Twitter menswear guy' just wants an affordable home in a walkable neighborhood
Derek Guy, the "Twitter menswear guy," is best known for his love of Italian tailoring. But he's be…
Eliza Relman
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The awful real-estate trend that's sweeping America
Neighborhood rebrands like SoBro and LoSo used to be quirky — now they're a real problem. I'm…