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The video call that would host a parade of the Democratic Party’s most prominent officeholders began with a shirtless man in a barren room issuing this clarion call: “Welcome to Yimbychella!” ...
Harris wouldn’t be the first president to embrace YIMBY ideas. Barack Obama put out a similar plan before he left office in 2016. Biden has also pushed for more housing. But Harris is bringing ...
YIMBY, short for "Yes In My Backyard," promotes increasing the housing supply by removing barriers to new construction. Harris' apparent embrace of YIMBYism signals a potential shift in how ...
With all that said, the DNC offered a lot less evidence of a YIMBY takeover of the Democratic party than many commenters are claiming. It's also far from clear that a Harris-Walz administration ...
Is Kamala Harris running the first ever YIMBY ("yes in my backyard") campaign for president? She's certainly talking like she is, even though her housing platform is riddled with policy proposals ...
Harris' affordable housing plan — which pledges to "cut red tape" that blocks new construction — "explicitly echoes" the YIMBY agenda. That agenda especially targets blue states and cities ...
Obama’s shoutout to increased housing supply at the convention was just the cherry on top for YIMBY partisans. Harris “knows, for example, that if we want to make it easier for more young people to ...
For everyone else, what he meant was that the call was the equivalent of the hip Southern California music festival Coachella for the political movement known as Yimby—“Yes in My Backyard.” ...