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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News
YIMBY wins around the world
With a new Government that is extremely focused on building more homes, it seems a good time to revive our regular update on YIMBY successes around the world, from New Zealand to California. ADUs Accessory dwelling units (ADUs) are small, normally single storey, homes...
Fast wins for more homes: how Labour can champion infill development
Kane Emerson writing in Red Brick Blog The housing crisis remains one of the most pressing issues facing Britain today. With homebuilding at crisis levels, numbers of households in temporary accommodation rising, and young people struggling to get on the property...
The promise of New Towns
Kane Emerson writing in Red Brick Blog A new generation of New Towns – tree-lined and with character rooted in local history! Angela Rayner outlined Labour’s ambitions at a UK housing conference in Leeds yesterday. The announcement adds more detail to the...
The Power of Proactive Estate Renewal
This piece was first published in the Fabian member policy group report "Homes for London" Introduction The Labour Party has a proud history of building council homes. A century ago, during Labour’s first Government under Ramsay MacDonald, housing defined Labour’s...
Mansards on the up
By Alfie Robinson What is a mansard? A mansard takes a normal roof, and stretches it upwards to create liveable space. Where a normal roof has little more than trusses, cobwebs, and perhaps some insulation, a mansard tucks away bedrooms, bathrooms and living rooms....
East-West Rail: new New Towns
‘Then, as the millennium was dawning, a miracle happened. The government returned every penny that I had paid in taxes over the previous 40 years. So for four decades I had lived tax free – and I had not dodged the taxman! How was this possible? I ‘confessed’ in...
Going denser: density and the climate
Britain faces a severe housing crisis in our major cities. From London to Edinburgh, a lack of new homes have driven up rents and house prices to extreme levels. This not only causes immense damage to the environment, human welfare, jobs, growth and public services,...
Where have Camden’s children gone?
Since 2017, children have been disappearing from Camden’s schools. Rolls are down and 52 classes have been removed in primary schools alone. The dwindling pupil numbers have hit school finances, and the Council has been struggling to fill the gap. State schools in...
Yet another summer of overcrowding for families
A childhood summer is the highlight of many of our lives. But it is not so for the hundred of thousands of kids living in overcrowded houses for whom a school day is a welcome break. Across Britain, a harsh reality is hidden quietly behind closed doors: the...