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YIMBYs Want Their Problem Solved

Thoughts on why housing advocacy doesn't feel like other interest groups/causes

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Addison Del Mastro
Sep 16, 2025
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I’ve written about this phenomenon from time to time of YIMBY/housing advocacy not really being a movement or interest-group thing, but rather a basic, pre-political idea that our weird politics has forced to manifest itself in the form of a political interest group.

In writing about cities and crime recently, I had a thought related to this. It occurred…

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