NIMBY and YIMBY related terms: Difference between revisions

*'''AHIMBY''': Affordable Housing In My Back Yard.<br/> earliest use found:<br/> Sharky Laguana‏ @Sharkyl [https://twitter.com/Sharkyl/status/785650941634621440 6:19 PM - 10 Oct 2016]<br/> Replying to @mateosfo<br/> "Is there such a thing as a MIMBY? Or AHIMBY?"<br/> <br/> Also used by Berkeley city councilmember Kate Harrison on 5 Dec 2017.&nbsp;<br/> Attested: [https://twitter.com/tdfischer_/status/938291690586230785. https://twitter.com/tdfischer_/status/938291690586230785.&nbsp;]<br/> &nbsp;

*'''AIMBY''': Already In My Back Yard: the position that a given land use is already concentrated in some area, and should be distributed to other areas. For example, a concentration of low-income housing or social services facilities.&nbsp; [contributed via Twitter from an activist in San Jose, California, opposing new Affordable Housing facilities in her neighborhood].&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;

*'''NIABY''': Not In Anyone's Back&nbsp;Yard: &nbsp;term to describe opposition to land-uses which should not be allowed anywhere - for example, unregulated industrial polluters.&nbsp; Note, this is meaning mainly expressed by 'NIMBY' in Jane Anne Morris, ''Not In My Back Yard: The Handbook''&nbsp;(1994), pictured at right.&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;

*'''PIMBY''': Please In My Back Yard. (@yimbwiki [https://twitter.com/YIMBYwiki/status/918817746950832128 13 Oct 2017]: seems term arose in Kruibeke Polders proj, Flanders; perhaps from consultancy @Sigmaplan? via @RichardBlyth7).<br/> &nbsp;

**Yes In My Back Yard (primary)

**Yes In Many Back Yards (original usage, 1988. See [[YIMBY_movement|YIMBY_movement]]).&nbsp;<br/> <br/> &nbsp;

 

*'''YIMFY!''' - Yes In My Front Yard!<br/> Used by group in Seattle's Roosevelt&nbsp;neighborhood, North Link Neighbors for 12th, in support of putting a light-rail line alignment in their area in 2011.&nbsp;<br/> [https://www.pinterest.com/pin/421790321323415193. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/421790321323415193.&nbsp;]<br/> "YIMFY! Yes In My Front Yard - Light Rail Belongs in Roosevelt's Core. From April 28th 2014 rededication of Brenda the successful tunnel borer from the Capitol Hill leg, now working on the Roosevelt Station Link. Seattle's U District projects!"<br/> See post about the situation at&nbsp;[http://council.seattle.gov/2011/12/22/four-truths-about-the-roosevelt-rezone/ http://council.seattle.gov/2011/12/22/four-truths-about-the-roosevelt-rezone/].<br/> Northlink Neighborhoods for 12th: [https://web.archive.org/web/20050212143053/http://www.nln12.org:80/FAQ.html https://web.archive.org/web/20050212143053/http://www.nln12.org:80/FAQ.html].<br/> &nbsp;

*'''YIOBY''' - Yes In Our Backyard.&nbsp; Apparently coined by Laura Loe Berstein (@YIMBYsea), Seattle.&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;

*'''YIYBY:''' ''Yes, In Your Back Yard''. &nbsp;Pejorative variant of "YIMBY," suggesting that YIMBY advocates a) don't have yards of their own, and/or b) are really talking about building in other people's back yards.&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp; &nbsp;Seen in letter to the editor of&nbsp;''East Bay Times&nbsp;''by&nbsp;George Doddington, of&nbsp;''Walnut Creek, NOV 17 2016.&nbsp;h''ttps://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/11/17/letter-yimbyers-actually-have-no-backyards/.&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp;