60.00% - If you live in a city, change is the deal — trying to freeze your neighborhood at the moment you arrived isn't stewardship, it's NIMBYism dressed up as love of place.
40.00% - Building codes that add cost to small buildings without proportional safety benefit often exist to protect incumbent housing values, not actual safety.
"Neighborhood character" objections to new buildings usually amount to opposition to more residents.
37.50% - If you live in a city, change is the deal — trying to freeze your neighborhood at the moment you arrived isn't stewardship, it's NIMBYism dressed up as love of place.
37.50% - Upzoning just requires changing the zoning map — every city claiming it can't solve its housing crisis while maintaining exclusionary zoning is deceiving itself.
25.00% - Communities have a legitimate voice in how they develop — not unlimited veto power, but real input on character and pace.
50.00% - "Neighborhood character" objections to new buildings usually amount to opposition to more residents.
50.00% - Invoking "neighborhood character" to block new housing is exclusion, not planning.
0.00% - NIMBY appeals to “neighborhood character” are bullshit.
50.00% - Lower East Side