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Your Best Argument

The best answers to an honest, polite NIMBY

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Addison Del Mastro
Aug 25, 2025
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I received a comment on my recent piece, “The NIMBYs Are (Kind Of) Right,” and it struck me as one of the more honest arguments against more housing. For some people, this is just politely stated classism and racism, but I don’t think so. At least not necessarily.

Rather, it seems to touch on something else I wrote about recently, which is the question o…

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