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Time for YEMBYism?

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Matthew Yglesias
May 22, 2023
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The YIMBY movement was started by, and remains closely associated with, people who are a lot like me.

What are we like? Well, like many of us, I have an affective preference for walkable urbanism. I graduated from college and moved to Washington, D.C. in 2003, a very particular moment in the history of urban America. For 20 years after the end of World …

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