I’m a YIMBY. I think we need to build a shit load of apartments. I don’t care whether it’s state-owned or private. If we wanted to build a shit ton of public housing, we’d need to implement YIMBY policies anyway.
I don’t really know if Marxism is relevant here, but I see bourgeois NIMBY homeowners trying to keep property values high at the expense of everyone else as a common enemy everyone needs to fight against.
“affordable housing” allotments on newly built private developments are uniformly minuscule proportions that EXPIRE and the firm makes any ‘losses’ back when they kick out the section 8 tentants and raise the rent like they always do. there is no path to universal or even generally affordable housing that is not paved with the public purse.
Any world in which the US starts building public housing again is also a world in which it does buybacks of formerly affordable developments to turn them into public housing anyway. It’s better for those buildings to exist already than not.
Preventing housing construction because it could be public (in a political climate a world removed from ours) is just accelerationism for housing.
my interpretation of ‘i don’t care’ is that you would be satisfied with a bullshit private contract rather than lobby for it being implemented in a better way, but i guess some YIMBY thought could be a strain of lesser evil/critical support
The worst case scenario for private development (imo) is pencil towers with limited numbers of units, all extremely expensive, or auto-oriented suburban sprawl.
There need to be caveats, of course. I’m not interested in anything that would actually worsen conditions.