How the YIMBY-NIMBY Debate Worsened the Housing Crisis

Magical Mystery Tour 2014. Image © Steve MouzonThis article was originally published on Common Edge.For the past three decades, YIMBYs and NIMBYs have been fighting pitched battles across the U.S. for the heart and soul of future development, but the housing crisis has only grown worse, especially since the crash of 2008, which changed so many things on the supply side.This was followed a dozen years later by 2020, the strangest year of our lifetimes, which made those supply-side challenges