Localism Must Not Be an Ideology of Soil

A critique of the localist critique of Yoni Appelbaum’s “Stuck”

I would consider myself a localist, in the sense that I think people who live somewhere should be involved in the place they live. Some localists, however, may mean a bit more than that.

After finishing Yoni Appelbaum’s recent book Stuck, on the housing crisis but focused on what Appelbaum calls a “mobility crisis,” I came across a localist critique. Fro…