Not NIMBY or YIMBY, but PHIMBY

2018-04-09T01:45:00-04:00

If we are to take the housing crisis in the United States seriously, after reviewing international models, we see only one conclusion—local governments, supported by the federal government, must build a very large amount of affordable, mixed income, publicly-owned housing, initially by developing existing publicly-owned land.

The People's Policy Project (3P) has put out a report making the case for Social Housing in the United States. The authors, Ryan Cooper and Peter Gowan, also published an adapted essay in Jacobin Magazine wherein they contrast their approach with previous programs like HOPE VI: "We support a massive expansion of the publicly owned housing stock for all income groups, not evicting poor people to make way for middle-class people."

Their colleague, Matt Bruenig, penned a related editorial in the Guardian summarizing why "expanding the housing supply through this social housing approach has many benefits over private, market-led development."

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Not NIMBY or YIMBY, but PHIMBY