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== History ==
=== 1960s "coalition of working-class activists and developers" ===
In ''American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland'' (Self 2005), Robert O. Self describes the growth of Fremont, a new city in the SE Bay Area which grew rapidly after General Motors moved its Oakland plant there and greatly expanded:
<blockquote>''"Rapid property speculation within the vast new city [after 1964] drove land and housing prices up, as did strict enforcement of the general plan. Developers built enormous subdivisions and sold thousands of homes to a narrow range of middle-class families."<br/> 'The shortage of working-class housing had long been an issue in Fremont...A survey conducted by the Associated Homebuilders of the East Bay in 1964 criticized the general plan for forcing up the costs of building and thus the price of homes...A report to the city manager in 1967 by the president of the Fremont City Employees Association claimed that 62 percent of Fremont City employees could not afford to purchase a home in the city...<br/> "The '''unlikely alliance between working-class activists and property developers''' in Fremont took its most public form in 1966. That yeaer, a 'Committee for Change' ran candidates against two incumbent 'proplan' councilmembers. Billed as an' economy slate'...the insurgents claimed that under the 'proplan' admininstration, the costs of city service has increased, but the slow growth philosophy of the council had chased industry away and kept developers handcuffed." <br/> - [https://books.google.com/books?id=b8MeAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=american%20babylon&pg=PA128#v=snippet&q= "unlikely%20alliance"&f=false American Babylon, p.127-28]. ''</blockquote>
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=== 1970s new coalition of builders, environmentalists, integrationists, consumers ===
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"an unusual coalition of interests" now exists between social justice and environmental groups, housing producers, & priced-out consumers, observed Constance Perin in anthropological study of US land-use, "Everything In Its Place", 1977.
=== Suburban Action Institute, founded by Paul Davidoff ===
Suburban Action Institute was a pro-integration, proto-YIMBY group active on the East Coast in the early 1970s:
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Wikipedia (Swedish) page [https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yimby YIMBY], [https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yimby&edit-text=&act=url translated to English], describes it thus:
<blockquote>"Yimby is an acronym for the English phrase Yes in my backyard , which is a counter reaction to the Nimby phenomenon, Not in my backyard . The term "Yimby" is linked to urban planning, which means that one is fundamentally positive about changes in its vicinity.<br/> <br/> "Yimby is also an independent political party network, founded in Stockholm in 2007, which advocates physical development, densification and promotion of urban environment , and occurs in, among other things, Gothenburg, Oslo, Stockholm and Uppsala. The network criticizes several of the ideas that dominated urban development, especially during the second half of the 20th century, such as the spreading of the city, car dependence and the so-called " neighborhood planning," which meant that areas were planned as individual communities, rather than as parts of the larger city. The network also criticizes parts of the environmental movement and argues that a principle of resistance to densification and expansion of the city's urban forms is blocking the problem of exploration and dispersal of the city, which requires large natural areas and complicates the ability to build efficient public transport solutions . The network has also repeatedly criticized the lack of real parks in Stockholm, while there are many impediments in the form of unused green spaces."</blockquote>
=== YIMBY Helsinki (2009) ===
Lisää Kaupunkia Helsinkiin
founded in 2009 by Mikko Sarela.
"I founded YIMBY Helsinki group (Lisää kaupunkia Helsinkiin) in November 22 2009." https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikko-s%C3%A4rel%C3%A4-6b513a/
See Mikko Sarela on panel at event:
'''The International Influence of YIMBY'''
https://www.spur.org/events/2021-04-14/international-influence-yimby
9:00 to 10:00 a.m. | Wednesday, April 14, 2021
"In many cities around the world, the cost and availability of housing has reached crisis levels — and the plight has been only further worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic. In response, grassroots organizations adhering to the slogan of YIMBY, for Yes In My Backyard, have emerged in recent years to demand new housing, denounce bureaucratic obstacles, challenge public opposition to development and flout traditional political coalitions in order to create something both novel and widely inspiring. Come learn about the origins of the YIMBY movement and how an incredible momentum has carried it to profound impact in metropolitan regions around the globe."
Co-presented by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.
+ Sonja Trauss / YIMBY Law
+ John Myers / London YIMBY
+ Mikko Sarela / Lisää Kaupunkia Helsinkiin (YIMBY Helsinki)
+ Samuel Kling / Chicago Council on Global Affairs
=== <br/> NewYorkYimby.com ===
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In San Francisco by 2014 activists Amy Farah Weiss and Sonja Trauss were both separately using the title "SFYIMBY".
=== SFBARF, SF YIMBY, etc ===
In
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[[YIMBYtown_2017|YIMBYtown_2017]] was held in Oakland, California, in July 2017, hosted by East Bay Forward (now East Bay for Everyone).
An international conference, YIMBYcon, was held in Helsinki, Finland in 2016 and 2017.<br/> <br/>
[[YIMBYtown_2020]] will be held in Portland, Oregon, hosted by [[sightline.org|Sightline Institute]] and [https://portlandneighborswelcome.org/ Portland: Neighbors Welcome]. <br/>
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== Concepts ==
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== Critiques
=== interview with Jacob Woocher of DSA Los Angeles ===
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*Alviani, Carl. [https://qz.com/905255/americas-affordable-housing-crisis-meets-the-yimby-movement-who-believe-that-private-real-estate-developers-could-be-the-inner-cities-saviors-not-their-downfall/ "The unexpected solution to America’s affordable housing crunch."] Quartz, February 08, 2017. Reasonable overview of the YIMBY movement in US. <br/>
*Bosetti, Nicolas, and Sam Sims. "[http://www.centreforlondon.org/publication/nimby-opposition/ STOPPED: Why People Oppose New Residential Developments in Their Back Yard]." Centre for London, 20 July 2016. An excellent study by Centre for London examined people's reasons for resisting new housing development. <br/>
*Dougherty, Conor [2017]. "California Today: A Spreading ‘Yimby’ Movement." New York Times, JULY 14, 2017. [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/us/california-today-yimby-movement.html. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/14/us/california-today-yimby-movement.html. ]<br/>
*Dougherty, Conor [2020]. [https://www.amazon.com/Golden-Gates-Housing-Democracy-Prosperous/dp/0525560211 Golden Gates: The Fight for Housing—and Democracy—in America's Most Prosperous City]. Penguin Press, Forthcoming February 18, 2020. <br/> ''"Despite its liberal reputation, the San Francisco Bay Area has for decades enacted and reinforced exclusionist housing policies that raise the cost of living and exacerbate inequality. When Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO of Yelp, wanted to disrupt the rising housing costs in the Bay Area, he bypassed the traditional halls of power and instead met with the leader of SF BARF, the SF Bay Area Renters' Federation, '''Sonja Trauss'''. Indignant over the cost of living in our nation's great cities, Trauss represents a new generation of activists frustrated by a growing shortage of housing and demanding that neighborhoods make room for them. Dougherty follows Trauss—along with families trapped in the churn of barely making rent, a nun building a real estate empire to outmaneuver gauging landlords, and a city planner who suddenly envisions a different future—to tell the new story of housing."''<br/>
*Eaton, George. “[https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/11/what-yimby-meet-campaigners-hoping-ease-housing-crisi What is a yimby? Meet the campaigners hoping to ease the housing crisis.]” ''New Statesman'', 13 Nov 2017. [https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/11/what-yimby-meet-campaigners-hoping-ease-housing-crisis https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2017/11/what-yimby-meet-campaigners-hoping-ease-housing-crisis].<br/>
*Hahn, Jonathan. "[https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2017-5-september-october/grapple/pro-housing-urban-millennials-say-yes-my-backyard Pro-Housing Urban Millennials Say 'Yes In My Backyard.']" ''Sierra Magazine ''(The Sierra Club), AUG 23 2017.<br/>
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*Schweitzer, Lisa. "[https://lisaschweitzer.com/2017/07/19/getting-to-yes-with-yimby-in-la-or-my-summer-interviews/ Getting to Yes with YIMBY in LA, or my summer interviews.]" ''Lisaschweitzer.com, ''19 July 2017. <br/> [https://lisaschweitzer.com/2017/07/19/getting-to-yes-with-yimby-in-la-or-my-summer-interviews/ https://lisaschweitzer.com/2017/07/19/getting-to-yes-with-yimby-in-la-or-my-summer-interviews/].<br/>
*Schweitzer, Lisa. “[https://lisaschweitzer.com/2016/09/01/yimby-and-communitarians/amp/ #YIMBY and communitarians.]” LisaSchweitzer.com, 1 Sept 2016. [https://lisaschweitzer.com/2016/09/01/yimby-and-communitarians/amp/ https://lisaschweitzer.com/2016/09/01/yimby-and-communitarians/amp/].<br/>
*Self, Robert O. [https://www.amazon.com/American-Babylon-Struggle-Postwar-Politics/dp/0691124868/ref=sr_1_1?crid=17J0TSM25Q4LO&keywords=american+babylon+race+and+the+struggle+for+postwar+oakland&qid=1567895889&s=books&sprefix=american+baby,stripbooks,205&sr=1-1 ''American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland'']. Princeton University Press, 2005. Amazon. <br/>
*s.e. smith. "[https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/yimbys-fighting-for-housing There Goes the Neighborhood: Can YIMBYs reverse the impact of gentrification?]" ''Bitch Media'', March 19, 2018. [https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/yimbys-fighting-for-housing https://www.bitchmedia.org/article/yimbys-fighting-for-housing].<br/>
*Stahl, Kenneth. "[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3087508 'Yes in My Backyard': Can a New Pro-Housing Movement Overcome the Power of NIMBYs?]" forthcoming 2018 in Zoning & Planning Law Report. [https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3087508 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3087508].<br/>
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