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.
five ways we can build more homes
ESTATE RENEWAL
Expand and encourage London’s successful residential ballots to renew ageing council estates, improving our social homes and adding more high-quality homes.
UPWARD EXTENSIONS
Make it easy to add one or two extra storeys to existing buildings in keeping with existing vernacular, enabling more bedrooms for growing families or even creating new flats without using more land.
STREET VOTES
Let a street’s residents set a street plan for their own street that includes design rules and, following a democratic vote, allow matching extensions or new homes to be built quickly.
GREATER CAMBRIDGE
Build more homes and improve affordability in one of the UK’s most productive cities to meet the high demand from workers and high-growth businesses.
RESIDENTIAL ANNEXES
Build infill homes in existing neighbourhoods by allowing homeowners to build residential annexes (granny flats) with strict rules on design and quality.
News
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...
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