The maps show where it's literally illegal to build anything denser than a detached single-family house. The maps are a little outdated, as Minneapolis famously abolished detached single-family zoning a couple years back. However, it's still only legal to build up to triplexes on most of the land still there. Nonetheless, this has proven enough to stop rents from rising.
In this community, we believe in saying yes to:
Typical YIMBY policies include:
Typical housing crisis "solutions" YIMBYs are wary of:
YIMBYism transcends the typical left-right political divide; please be respectful of fellow YIMBYs with differing political views. That said, please report anyone saying anything hateful or bigoted.
In the absence of a flair system on lemmy yet, let's try to make it easier to scan through posts by type in here by using tags:
Additionally, it is preferred (although not mandatory) to post a brief submission statement in the body of link posts. This is just to give a brief summary and/or description of why you think it's relevant here. Hopefully this will encourage more discussion in this community.