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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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*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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