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The case for one billion Americans, & more (Matt Yglesias)

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The Case for Building More Housing

Matt Welch: I've been dying to pick your brain about yimby. Yimby is a movement devoted to building more housing, especially in expensive cities like New York and San Francisco. He says it's named as a retort to what are called nimby's, an acronym standing for not in my backyard. Welch: The whole point of the Yimby Reform movement is actually not that everybody should show up at community meeting where Nimby's shout about how development is evil.

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