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“They have their crazies. We need our crazies,” said panelist Laura Foote Clarke, executive director of YIMBY Action, which advocates for housing growth. Yes, that’s YIMBY, as in “Yes In My Backyard,”

Skeevy affordable housing and Section 8 ghetto divas with their illegitimate brats aka Future Burglars of America. What's not to like?

SAN FRANCISCO — A forum Thursday on the Bay Area’s egregious housing situation — the high prices, the scarcity of new construction — brought together academics, developers, real estate agents, government officials and housing advocates, all in the name of seeking creative solutions to the crisis.

It was both a cry for help and a call to action.

“They have their crazies. We need our crazies,” said panelist Laura Foote Clarke, executive director of YIMBY Action, which advocates for housing growth. Yes, that’s YIMBY, as in “Yes In My Backyard,” and the “they” she referred to was the other side — the many and often well-organized “Not In My Backyard” NIMBY opponents of housing development and densification in neighborhoods around the region.

I like it! Call me a YIMBY.

Patrick says

I like it! Call me a YIMBY.

If NIMBY had their way, Manhattan would still be a forest with 50 log homes. America would not be America.
Nimby's, you may own your home, but you do not own the neighborhood and you do not own the property that others own. This NIBY shit is causing too much harm to others. We need zoning in the hands of the state, not the locals.