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This is a new, open wiki for YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) & housing issues, started October 2016, see About  page. 

We invite anyone to start a new page or edit articles on any topic related to creating more inclusive, affordable, equitable housing and communities. See Content Guidelines [to be written -ed]  for tips on what and how to contribute.

See Support YIMBYwiki for how to help by donating. 
 

Outline of core articles (planned or begun): 

1. YIMBY concept 
2. Land use regulation (loosely synonymous with zoning)
3. Housing systems (US and comparative)
4. Housing affordability
5. Housing affordability strategies
   1. Subsidized housing development
      (see also: Housing funding approaches)
   2. Inclusionary zoning
   3. Public housing, aka Social housing
   4. Benefit programs - e.g. vouchers, tax credits, Housing Benefit (UK)
   5. Housing diversity
      1. "Missing middle" and infill housing
      2. Accessory dwellings
      3. Mobile and redeployable/interim housing
      4. Shared, congregate, cohousing etc
   6. Self-build housing
      1. "Citizen Sector" development model (Alastair Parvin, WikiHouse, etc)
      2. Baugruppen
   7. Housing construction efficiency
   8. Community land trusts
6. Affordable_Housing i.e. price-restricted or non-market housing
7. Housing funding approaches
   1. General taxation
   2. Development fees - e.g. inclusionary zoning, impact fees, linkage fees
   3. Land Value Tax
   4. Value capture
8. Effects of new housing - on the Ur-question of how new housing affects price and communities.
9. YIMBY strategies
10. Housing and land use bibliography
11. YIMBY_organizations_directory

 

Latest Pages

• Support YIMBYwiki 
• Land value tax (suggested by Max Ghenis)
• Affordable Housing - suggested by Sam Moss, Fay Darmawi
• Game Theory of Zoning - suggested by @LondonNIMBY)
• 2016 Bay Area Housing Ballot Measures
• Starting a YIMBY Organization
• Housing Crisis - Expensive Rental Markets

Useful Links

• Recent changes
• Index of all pages
• Create new page

To Do / future projects

• edit Mobile view menu to be like Desktop view
• explore improving editing in Mobile view
• Editing_with_Google_Docs idea, and/or other alternate editors. (especially for mobile use)
• formatting:  make links underlined, or more visible somehow. MediaWiki default is barely visible
• need better YIMBYwiki_backup_strategy ASAP
• is there any way to prevent the editor from constantly reinserting line breaks and spaces ("& n b s p;") and messing up the Main Page separate mobile section?  Am finding I need to remove "< / d i v >" or add line break before "< d i v >" at start of mobile section, nearly every edit, wft? Tbh getting really tired of redoing formatting on nearly every single edit/save. -tm.
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YIMBYwiki

this is an open wiki / knowledgebase for YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) & housing issues. We invite anyone to start or edit articles on topics to with creating more inclusive, affordable, equitable housing and communities. Project started October, 2016. see About page.  

See Content Guidelines (coming soon) for tips on what and how to contribute.

 

Outline of core articles (planned or begun): 

1. YIMBY concept 
2. Land use regulation (loosely synonymous with zoning)
3. Housing systems (US and comparative)
4. Housing affordability
5. Housing affordability strategies
   1. Subsidized housing development
      (see also: Housing funding approaches)
   2. Inclusionary zoning
   3. Public housing, aka Social housing
   4. Benefit programs - e.g. vouchers, tax credits, Housing Benefit (UK)
   5. Housing diversity
      1. "Missing middle" and infill housing
      2. Accessory dwellings
      3. Mobile and redeployable/interim housing
      4. Shared, congregate, cohousing etc
   6. Self-build housing
      1. "Citizen Sector" development model (Alastair Parvin, WikiHouse, etc)
      2. Baugruppen
   7. Housing construction efficiency
   8. Community land trusts
6. Affordable_Housing i.e. price-restricted or non-market housing
7. Housing funding approaches
   1. General taxation
   2. Development fees - e.g. inclusionary zoning, impact fees, linkage fees
   3. Land Value Tax
   4. Value capture
8. Effects of new housing - on the Ur-question of how new housing affects price and communities.
9. YIMBY strategies
10. Housing and land use bibliography
11. YIMBY_organizations_directory

 

Latest Pages

• Support YIMBYwiki 
• Land value tax (suggested by Max Ghenis)
• Affordable Housing - suggested by Sam Moss, Fay Darmawi
• Game Theory of Zoning -suggested by @LondonNIMBY)
• YIMBY organizations directory
• 2016 Bay Area Housing Ballot Measures
• Starting a YIMBY Organization
• Housing Crisis - Expensive Rental Markets

 

Useful Links

• Recent changes
• Index of all pages
• Create new page

 

To Do / future projects

• edit Mobile view menu to be like Desktop view
• explore improving editing in Mobile view
• Editing_with_Google_Docs idea, and/or other alternate editors. (especially for mobile use)
• formatting:  make links underlined, or more visible somehow. MediaWiki default is barely visible
• need better YIMBYwiki_backup_strategy ASAP
• is there any way to prevent the editor from constantly reinserting line breaks and spaces ("& n b s p;") and messing up the Main Page separate mobile section?  Am finding I need to remove "< / d i v >" or add line break before "< d i v >" at start of mobile section, nearly every edit, wft? Tbh getting really tired of redoing formatting on nearly every single edit/save. -tm.
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