YIMBY Triangle

New YIMBY organization advocating for mixed-use, dense housing in the greater NC Triangle area.

[YIMBY Triangle @YIMBYtriangle]

stopping development does not stop gentrification and displacement

[Kenneth Stahl 🌇 @kookie13]

The perversity of the argument is using the history of urban renewal, which bulldozed apartments occupied by people of color, to block new apartments that could possibly house people of color in a mostly white, rich neighborhood.

[Daniel Trubman @dmtrubman]

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[Chelsea Fagan @Chelsea_Fagan]

For the past several decades in a row, we have moved into progressively larger, more expensive (even adjusting for inflation) homes that make us isolated, depressed, sedentary, and financially strained — suburbs could easily be studied as a public health problem

[Chelsea Fagan @Chelsea_Fagan]

Suburbs (and more generally, living in too-large, spread-out homes) is extremely bad for humans in nearly every way — we did a video on the subject and I was blown away by how damaging it really is

[YIMBY Triangle @YIMBYtriangle]

@ryan_hassett tbh if you upzoned it like Durham is planning to do you could probably support a heavy rail alignment w/current growth trends

[YIMBY Triangle @YIMBYtriangle]

@ryan_hassett I mean besides the I40 alignment it’s great project for a congested corridor and will connect 3 universities and 2 tier 1 research hospitals for a booming region...I just wish we could’ve started it 2 years ago and gone with the 15-501 route

[Laura Foote 🌇 @NeverSassyLaura]

On some level, we all understand how much better life is when people don't have to drive to work.

Overheard:
"We have a car, but I can walk from our new place to my office."
"Oh how WONDERFUL. That is just so nice."

Yes. It is. Now let's use public policy to make it standard.

[Devon ☀️ @devonzuegel]

When trickle down housing supply becomes trickle up, it's time to build more units

[Jenn Truman @jkp_truman]

"One reason the American dream has come apart is that too few cities have shared their resources—and real estate—between the rich and the rest." But progressive fiscal and land use policies make Minneapolis unique. https://t.co/YPt0KzAG8f

[YIMBY Triangle @YIMBYtriangle]

@schmangee cc: the State of North Carolina

[YIMBY Triangle @YIMBYtriangle]

welcome to the Triangle 🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️🤦🏼‍♂️

[Benjamin Ross @BenRossTransit]

A North Carolina metro area has $6 billion of new highway construction under way as it struggles to build one light rail line https://t.co/86wiXgL3gY

[YIMBY Triangle @YIMBYtriangle]

@CM_CharlieReece @ChrisChaten @CityofDurhamNC would love to talk to you about using property tax windfalls to expand sidewalk and bike trail construction, particularly in our marginalized and neglected communities

[YIMBY Triangle @YIMBYtriangle]

@ChrisChaten @CityofDurhamNC @CM_CharlieReece PREACH

[Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler]

@Econ_Marshall @alexbaca @KateAronoff @DanielDenvir Adding more density & height /= willy nilly deregulation. Please go drive your straw man to a different burb.

[spring is here @weel]

Oh fun it's been a while since I pointed out that the concept "single family" housing is part of a plot to define "family" along cishet WASP lines and eliminate household structures preferred by queer people and a variety ethnic minorities, send tweet.

[Kim-Mai Cutler @kimmaicutler]

We effectively tax new housing (which we don’t build very much of) to create affordable housing. Meanwhile, we protect financial returns on existing housing to the fullest extent possible, even making those protections inheritable. https://t.co/gSpeNe412o

[YIMBY Triangle @YIMBYtriangle]

#SustainabilityForWhomst????