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YIMBYwiki

This is a new, open wiki for YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) & housing issues. We invite anyone to start a new page or edit articles on topics related to creating more inclusive, affordable, equitable housing and communities. 

See Support YIMBYwiki for how to help by donating. 

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Latest additions!

• YIMBY fundraising
• New Cities YCombinator Research readings
• 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

Outline of core articles (planned or begun): 

1. YIMBY concept 
2. Land use regulation (loosely synonymous with zoning)
3. Housing 
   1. Housing systems (US and comparative)
   2. Housing affordability
   3. Housing affordability strategies
      1. Housing benefit programs - e.g. vouchers, tax credits, Housing Benefit (UK)
      2. Housing_financing
      3. Social housing, aka Public housing
      4. Subsidized housing development
         1. Affordable Housing i.e. price-restricted or non-market housing
      5. Inclusionary zoning
      6. Housing diversity
         1. Missing Middle and infill housing
         2. Accessory dwellings
         3. Mobile and redeployable housing
         4. Shared, congregate, and cohousing
      7. Housing construction innovation
      8. Community land trusts
      9. Self-build housing
         1. "Citizen Sector" development model (Alastair Parvin, WikiHouse, etc)
         2. Baugruppen
   4. Effects_of_new_housing - on the Ur-question of how new housing affects price and communities.
   5. Homelessness
4. Transportation 
5. Funding_approaches
   1. General_taxation
   2. Development_fees - e.g. inclusionary zoning, impact fees, linkage fees
   3. Land Value Tax
   4. Value capture
6. YIMBY strategies
   1. YIMBY_fundraising
7. Housing and land use bibliography
8. YIMBY organizations directory

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?  I amm finding that nearly every time I edit and save the page, I need to remove "< / d i v >" or add line break before "< d i v >" at start of mobile section, and remove a number of extraneous line breaks that have appeared in the "Outline of core articles" section in both Desktop and Mobile parts. wft? Tbh getting really tired of redoing formatting on nearly every single edit/save. -tm.

 

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YIMBYwiki

This is a new, open wiki for YIMBY (Yes In My Backyard) & housing issues. We invite anyone to start a new page or edit articles on topics related to creating more inclusive, affordable, equitable housing and communities. 

See Support YIMBYwiki for how to help by donating. 

 

Latest additions!

• YIMBY fundraising
• New Cities YCombinator Research readings
• 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

 

Outline of core articles (planned or begun): 

1. YIMBY concept 
2. Land use regulation (loosely synonymous with zoning)
3. Housing 
   1. Housing systems (US and comparative)
   2. Housing affordability
   3. Housing affordability strategies
      1. Housing benefit programs - e.g. vouchers, tax credits, Housing Benefit (UK)
      2. Housing_financing
      3. Social housing, aka Public housing
      4. Subsidized housing development
         1. Affordable Housing i.e. price-restricted or non-market housing
      5. Inclusionary zoning
      6. Housing diversity
         1. Missing Middle and infill housing
         2. Accessory dwellings
         3. Mobile and redeployable housing
         4. Shared, congregate, and cohousing
      7. Housing construction innovation
      8. Community land trusts
      9. Self-build housing
         1. "Citizen Sector" development model (Alastair Parvin, WikiHouse, etc)
         2. Baugruppen
   4. Effects_of_new_housing - on the Ur-question of how new housing affects price and communities.
   5. Homelessness
4. Transportation 
5. Funding_approaches
   1. General_taxation
   2. Development_fees - e.g. inclusionary zoning, impact fees, linkage fees
   3. Land Value Tax
   4. Value capture
6. YIMBY strategies
   1. YIMBY_fundraising
7. Housing and land use bibliography
8. YIMBY organizations directory

 

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?  I amm finding that nearly every time I edit and save the page, I need to remove "< / d i v >" or add line break before "< d i v >" at start of mobile section, and remove a number of extraneous line breaks that have appeared in the "Outline of core articles" section in both Desktop and Mobile parts. wft? Tbh getting really tired of redoing formatting on nearly every single edit/save. -tm.

 

Create New Page

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