When Babies Grow Up, They Become Neighbors

Why Catholics should be YIMBYs

I was in America Magazine recently—online and print!—writing a Catholic case for being YIMBY/pro-housing/whatever you’d like to call it. My argument is simple: American politics tends to silo concerns about the family on the political right, and about housing on the political left. But if we value actual, real-life babies and families, and we want socie…