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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):
- YIMBY concept
- Land use regulation (loosely synonymous with zoning)
- Housing systems (US and comparative)
- Housing affordability
- Housing affordability strategies
- Housing benefit programs - e.g. vouchers, tax credits, Housing Benefit (UK)
- Housing_financing
- Social housing, aka Public housing
- Subsidized housing development
- Affordable Housing i.e. price-restricted or non-market housing
- Inclusionary zoning
- Housing diversity
- Housing construction innovation
- Community land trusts
- Self-build housing
- "Citizen Sector" development model (Alastair Parvin, WikiHouse, etc)
- Baugruppen
- Housing_funding_approaches
- General_taxation
- Development_fees - e.g. inclusionary zoning, impact fees, linkage fees
- Land Value Tax
- Value capture
- Effects of new housing - on the Ur-question of how new housing affects price and communities.
- YIMBY strategies
- Housing and land use bibliography
- 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
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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