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by jmclnx 384 days ago
It is not just "grumpy old folks", almost everyone who own property, no matter the age fights development.

Seems the only people that do not actively fight development are the working poor. That is because either they work multiple jobs or have travel issues.
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reliabilityguy 384 days ago
Statistically speaking, the homeowners in the US are not young.
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runako 384 days ago
Statistically speaking, Americans are not young.
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aegypti 384 days ago
The “YIMBY” movement is completely dominated by 20-40yo middle class professionals in my experience.
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nothercastle 384 days ago
Who own nothing and are renting everything. They also think they don’t pay property taxes hence they vote for every tax increase
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aegypti 384 days ago
YIMBY is a supply side movement laser focused on regulatory barriers, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a tax measure mentioned in relation to it.

Plenty of tax breaks though.

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epistasis 384 days ago
YIMBYs are on the forefront of attacking Proposition 13 in California, and YIMBYs are also driving a resurgence of Georgism to use land value taxes to address fundamental inequity.

YIMBYs also regularly support work on non-regulatory barriers, such as the rent increase caps in California (ABA1482), and have even supported social housing bills in California.

There's also lots of talk of transfer taxes amongst YIMBYs, see for example: https://cayimby.org/blog/if-you-tax-the-things-you-want-less...

There are two types of discussions about YIMBYs: 1) that by far-leftists that see the battle as ideological and about regulation/deregulation and trickle-down housing vs. revolution, and 2) the actual YIMBY activism on the ground which is all about more housing and making housing less of a financial and emotional burden for renters.

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