NIMBY: Difference between revisions

Other YIMBY strategies that speak to stated NIMBY concerns about affordable housing focus on lowering the cost to build affordable units by building on disused or underutilized municipal land (e.g. vacant lots and parking lots), lowering parking requirements for new developments and streamlining interior installations in units slated for low-income residents. Coupled with inclusionary zoning, linkage payments and increased density housing near public transportation hubs, this is the approach being examined in Cambridge, Massachusetts (see[http://www.abettercambridge.org/ A Better Cambridge]). In response, NIMBYists raise the concern of whether linkage payments and inclusionary zoning programs result in the creation of enough units (particularly two and three bedroom units for families versus smaller units geared towards singletons and childless couples) that rent for rates low enough to be affordable for the poor. 

 

 

== See also ==

*[[YIMBY_concept|YIMBY_concept]]

*[http://yimby.wiki/wiki/Housing_Crisis_-_Expensive_Rental_Markets Housing crisis]

*Density

 

 

 

A Better Cambridge calls on city to create 8,500 housing units within next 15 years (update). (2016, February 26). Retrieved from [http://www.cambridgeday.com/2015/02/28/a-better-cambridge-calls-on-city-to-create-8500-housing-units-within-next-15-years/ [1]]