In California, opposition by NIMBYs is not about stopping affordable housing—they don’t want any new housing in their ...

The inviolable power of private property defines the actions and attitudes that can create and destroy communities; in liberal enclaves like New York, this is done with language. Slippery terms like ...

Like fog, it creeps in, but unlike fog, it doesn’t dissipate. It gets denser and does untold damage to the economy and Americans’ lives. It is that modern plague, known as much by its acronym as by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "NIMBYism" and "economic segregation" aren't exactly household terms. They should be. Understanding those terms and others may ...

Less than two days. That’s how long the residents of Martha’s Vineyard (average household income: $132,657) tolerated a planeload of 50 Venezuelan immigrants dumped on the tony island off the coast of ...

A ranking Federal Reserve official has called out NIMBYism as a key reason why housing is so unaffordable. Tom Barkin, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, cited the not-in-my-backyard ...

Editor's Note: This article appears in Governing's Winter 2025 magazine. You can subscribe here. Instead of saying “not in my backyard,” more places are starting to say yes. The YIMBY approach to ...

NIMBYism (Not In My Back Yard) has always been an issue that pipeline companies frequently face when they attempt to site and build pipelines necessary to carry oil, natural gas or other petroleum ...

Zoning restrictions on the construction of new housing inflict immense harm by cutting off millions of people from housing, educational, and job opportunities. Even current homeowners who have no ...