YIMBY
Alliance
Better housing, together
WHAT IS A YIMBY?
We’re YIMBYs: we believe that everyone deserves a high quality, safe and affordable place to live. That means we want to see better places and more homes built with the support of local communities. YIMBY stands for “Yes in my back yard”: we support more high-quality homes near us.
STREET VOTES
Empowering communities for more and better housing
Street votes are a new, non-partisan idea to empower communities to say yes to the right housing where they wish. They are meant as a supplement to the existing planning system. The idea is that residents on individual streets could jointly propose rules on the design of extensions or other construction on their street. If they wish, they could allow more extensions of a particular design, or more ambitious development.
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