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                      1. The idea that NIMBY and YIMBY are the only two stances for dealing with housing issues is terrible and *not joking* hurting America.
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                      Neighborhood cohesion, gentrification and supply and demand are all factors in a much more complex equation than "More housing Y/N?"
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                    The oversimplification of housing supply and demand considerations is hurting both NIMBY and YIMBY people at every step of discussion.
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                  Sure, more density is needed, but if that prices out humans in exchange for more units used to hide money in, it isn't really density is it?
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                And if the density pushes out stores and culture than you're basically building a self-destructing neighborhood. Not sustainable.
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              But also resistance to increasing housing density is just racism in action. Which should be defeated.
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            These three tweets are already more complex than the average NIMBY vs YIMBY housing article and that sucks for all of us.
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          It would just be awesome if we could all understand that any housing action has to start with lower middle-class residents first.
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        Building unaffordable neighborhoods will always eventually kill themselves, even if the greedy win temporarily.
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      NYC housing policy, for example, is creating a bloated market selling unaffordable units to rich people who don't live in them.
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    Eventually we'll just end up with a wasteland of empty streets and fully sold apartment buildings with a dead city in-between them.
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      And NYC knows from Times Square of old what type of environment that leads to. One not easy to fix.
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        Policy that balanced living humans in units with market forces and sustainable neighborhoods is badly needed...
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          But no one even has policy tools in place to understand much less maintain thru law a sustainable neighborhood. But that *is* what we need
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            The point is that you can't just throw a bunch of housing developers at some property and get a working sustainable city block out of it.
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              But you also can't freeze development and expect your city to be healthy. Strangle or Bloat, the solution is somewhere in-between.
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