NIMBY and YIMBY related terms

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The original term NIMBY has inspired many spin-off terms, including YIMBY. Here are some we've found, you are welcome to add your finds or suggestions:

  • 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.  [contributed via Twitter from an activist in San Jose, California, opposing new Affordable Housing facilities in her neighborhood]. 
     
  • NIABY: Not In Anyone's Bay Yard:  term to describe opposition to land-uses which should not be allowed anywhere - for example, unregulated industrial polluters.  Note, this is meaning mainly expressed by 'NIMBY' in Jane Anne Morris, "Not In My Back Yard: The Handbook" (1994), pictured at right. 
     
  • QIMBY - Quality in My Back Yard.  See our article QIMBY for more on this. 
     
  • YIMBY
    • Yes In My Back Yard (primary)
    • Yes In Many Back Yards (original usage, 1988. See YIMBY_movement). 
       
  • YIOBY - Yes In Our Backyard.  Apparently coined by Laura Loe Berstein (@YIMBYsea), Seattle. 

     

More from [Stephens 2005]:

  • BANYs Builders Against NIMBYs [Not In My Backyard Activists] [
  • GOAH Gedoudaheah
  • GOOMBA Get out of my business area
  • GUMBY Gaze upon my backyard [Opponents of residential walls and fences]
  • KIIMBY Keep it in my backyard
  • NIMD Not in my district
  • NIMEY Not in my election year
  • NIMFOS Not in my field of sight
  • NIMFYE Not in my front yard either
  • NIMTOO Not in my term of office
  • NITL Not in this lifetime
  • NOPE Not on planet earth
  • NORF No observable redeeming features
  • NOT None of that
  • NOTE Not over there either
  • NUMBY Not under my backyard
  • PIITBY Put it in their backyard
  • QUIMBY Quit urbanizing in my backyard
  • WIIFM What’s in it for me?

 

 

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