Fuck this YIMBY abundancecrat shit. Building more homes for investors and landlords to hoard wouldn’t actually lower housing prices and neither would gentrifying neighborhoods by flooding them with development. That will just accumulate more wealth for a small elite property owning class.
There are already more homes than homeless people. It doesn’t fix the problem.
Doesn’t this framing serve the petit bourgeois YIMBY luxury housing developers and the DNC’s new neoliberal, deregulatory “abundance” movement? We don’t have homeless for a lack of housing so much as a glut of vacancies and a lack of affordability, which are intimately tied to each other.
Not that NIMBYs aren’t problem at all; they are. But “YIMBY” has been co-opted by bourgeois/neoliberal interests. It’s an astroturfed movement.
Maybe, just maybe, it might be a bit more nuanced than you realize.
Indeed, homelessness in the US is massively more nuanced than “we need to build more homes.” Simply building more housing will hardly help at all, because there are already many houses & apartments intentionally left vacant in order to manipulate prices, because the real estate and banking industries are only interested in line go up.
Fuck all the way off with that condescending phrase.
Dominus is the Adult In the Room, you literal child /s
Also, I call the police a lot.
Priceless. This is best thing I have read in recent memory. 🤣
