October 11, 2019
Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) Information

Research-Based Articles

Social Justice – Displacement

• Here’s What We Actually Know About Market-Rate Housing Development and Displacement – For-profit new construction is overwhelmingly geared toward the luxury market. But it’s lower-income households who face the most severe affordable housing shortfalls.
• The Problem with YIMBY — A recently published book, “Zoned Out! Race, Displacement, and City Planning in New York City,” demonstrates that YIMBY policies — such as zoning liberalization — actually furthers racial and economic inequality.
• Systemic Inequality: Displacement, Exclusion, and Segregation – Across the country, historic and ongoing displacement, exclusion, and segregation prevent people of color from obtaining and retaining homeownership, as well as accessing safe, affordable housing. In addition, the cost of rental housing has outpaced wages and destabilized longtime residents’ ability to afford their homes.
• Rise of the YIMBYs: the angry millennials with a radical housing solution — They’ve flipped the script. It’s a mostly white, mostly young, mostly able-bodied bunch of people suggesting that working class neighborhoods are being NIMBYs.
• Dropping the Hammer on YIMBYism — “Yes In My Back Yard” is a dangerous ideology that is funded by the powerful to serve the powerful.
• What’s in My Backyard? – By advancing a narrative that privileges development (and developer profits) over non-market strategies and tenant power, YIMBYs provide cover and political support for politicians who want to be seen as progressive but don’t want to confront developers.
• YIMBYs: Friend, Foe, or Chaos Agent? – Many housing activists have become concerned that YIMBYs are a Trojan horse for a supply-side, anti-regulation, pro-developer agenda.
• Curbing Displacement in Gentrifying Cities: Small Answers to a Booming Crisis
• Mansplaining the City – Why are Men Driving the Conversation about the Future of Our Neighborhoods? It turns out that the absence of women from the conversation about how cities have been made, and remade, over the last 50 years has directly fed their wealth disparity and urban displacement.

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