Doesn’t this framing serve the petit bourgeois YIMBY luxury housing developers and the DNC’s new neoliberal, deregulatory “abundance” movement? We don’t have homeless for a lack of housing so much as a glut of vacancies and a lack of affordability, which are intimately tied to each other.
Not that NIMBYs aren’t problem at all; they are. But “YIMBY” has been co-opted by bourgeois/neoliberal interests. It’s an astroturfed movement.
Indeed, homelessness in the US is massively more nuanced than “we need to build more homes.” Simply building more housing will hardly help at all, because there are already many houses & apartments intentionally left vacant in order to manipulate prices, because the real estate and banking industries are only interested in line go up.
Doesn’t this framing serve the petit bourgeois YIMBY luxury housing developers and the DNC’s new neoliberal, deregulatory “abundance” movement? We don’t have homeless for a lack of housing so much as a glut of vacancies and a lack of affordability, which are intimately tied to each other.
Not that NIMBYs aren’t problem at all; they are. But “YIMBY” has been co-opted by bourgeois/neoliberal interests. It’s an astroturfed movement.
Maybe, just maybe, it might be a bit more nuanced than you realize.
Indeed, homelessness in the US is massively more nuanced than “we need to build more homes.” Simply building more housing will hardly help at all, because there are already many houses & apartments intentionally left vacant in order to manipulate prices, because the real estate and banking industries are only interested in line go up.
Fuck all the way off with that condescending phrase.