<scp>YIMBY</scp>: The Latest Frontier of Gentrification

Wyly, Elvin

doi:10.1111/1468-2427.13067

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“…In turn, market rental housing offers no relief, becoming unaffordable for the working class and segments of the middle class (Bhatt, 2022). As this situation shows once more, the supply argument advanced by liberal economists (that expanding market housing will 'filter down' to everybody eventually) and their allies (who shout Yes In My Backyard (YIMBY), see below) does not hold (Wyly, 2022).…”

Section: Does Market Housing Meet Social Needs?mentioning

confidence: 98%

“…In its socially regressive form, the critique of NIMBYism is a rallying cry by all those players, large and small, who assert a right to play the game of monopoly against those who can't and those who won't because they consider housing not an investment vehicle but a 'use-value': a basic need and precondition for a decent life. As research about Chicago (Curran, 2022), Los Angeles (Tapp, 2021), Houston (Lowe & Richards, 2022), the Bay Area (McElroy & Szeto, 2017) and Austin (Tretter et al, 2022) indicates, those who rally to liberate market housing from the restrictions that had entrenched the previous (also liberal) housing order by raising the banner 'Yes In My Backyard' (YIMBY) are most likely to encourage housing financialization, buttress the power of finance capital and push further the frontier of gentrification in all its class-based, racist and gendered violence (Wyly, 2022).…”

Section: Is 'Mixed-use' the Answer?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Housing beyond land rent?: A critique of market housing solutionism

Kipfer,

Sotomayor

2024

RHJ

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Toronto is in a housing crisis. Many residents lack access to adequate and affordable housing. In response, neoliberals and reformers have radicalized their advocacy for more market housing as the only possible alternative. Drawing attention to the role housing plays in the reproduction of labour power and the crisis-ridden dynamic of capital accumulation, we highlight the inability of market housing to meet a range of social needs. We tackle crucial weaknesses of the housing supply argument, including, first, its quantitative orientation; second, its impatience with those who defend existing housing options; third, its historical amnesia; fourth; its pop-economist (mis-)understanding of housing markets; fifth, its superficial critique of zoning, and sixth, its illusory embrace of seemingly alternative ways of organizing housing spatially: mixed-use and inclusionary zoning. Reflecting on the recent municipal by-election in Toronto, we also consider what it would take to shift course towards decommodified and decolonial housing futures.

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Section: Does Market Housing Meet Social Needs?mentioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Is 'Mixed-use' the Answer?mentioning

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Housing beyond land rent?: A critique of market housing solutionism

Kipfer,

Sotomayor

2024

RHJ

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“…And while Kleinian political theorists have critically examined both the potential and the profound limitations of truth and reconciliation processes that attempt to address white supremacist violence at the scale of the nation-state (McIvor, 2016), who better than critical geographers to examine performances of reparation, both manic and genuine, across a wider range of spatial scales? I wonder, for instance, about critical-geographical inquiry into the so-called YIMBY (Yes in My Back Yard) urban pro-density movements clamoring for new housing development in many cities on the west coast of the United States and Canada, among other places (Holleran, 2022;Wyly, 2022). Critical geographers have begun to scrutinize these movements on political-economic grounds, noting their ties to the tech, real estate, and construction industries, but had decidedly less to say about their striking affective dimensions (but see Maharawal and McElroy, 2018).…”

Section: Manic Reparation For Critical Geographies Of Neoliberalismmentioning

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A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation

Seitz

2023

Environ Plan D

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This article invites critical geographers to reconsider the conceptual offerings of Austrian-British object-relations psychoanalyst Melanie Klein (1882–1960), whose metapsychology has had a significant but largely unacknowledged contemporary influence on the field via theorists like Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Lauren Berlant. Excavating the Kleinian genealogies of Sedgwick’s concept of “reparative reading” and Berlant’s notion of “cruel optimism,” I argue that geographers engaged with these ideas would benefit from a more sustained consideration of Klein’s influence on them. I then point to the potential utility for critical geographers of just one of many Kleinian concepts that has largely remained off the map of recent debates: ”manic reparation,” sometimes referred to as mock reparation or manic denial, which defends against the anxiety of wanting to repair a damaged object of attachment. Sketching possibilities for how this concept could productively illuminate concerns near and dear to critical geographers—such as the political ecologies of climate change, critiques of neoliberal multiculturalisms, debates over urban development, and abolition geographies—I argue that Klein’s idiosyncratic, though at times problematic and counterintuitive, body of work offers critical geographers an insightful, expansive, and underutilized conceptual vocabulary for examining the affective dimensions of a wide range of political formations.

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“…A key underpinning of YIMBY is the discourse that is leveraged to strategically package and rationalize what is, at its core, a pro-market development and supply-oriented logic (see Wyly, 2022). The language of YIMBY makes overtures to sustainable urbanism and a progressive stance on equitable development.…”

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From “smart growth” to “frontier” intensification: density, YIMBYism, and the development of garden suites in Toronto

Bunce

2023

Front. Sustain. Cities

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Toronto's official intensification policy has directed increased density primarily through residential development over the last 20 years. Recently, new intensification efforts have focused on increasing density in existing residential neighborhoods through so-called “gentle density” and “missing middle” built form, as a new “frontier” of intensification. These efforts have included a focus on the production of garden suites on residential properties. In this short intervention, I suggest that Yes-In-My-Backyard narratives, that celebrate intensification, raise problematic arguments under the guise of sustainable urbanism and liberal progressive politics which foreclose important critiques of intensification. I argue that increased YIMBYism and new intensification efforts in Toronto are entwined with homeownership wealth-building and market-oriented property development.

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YIMBY: The Latest Frontier of Gentrification

Cited by 13 publications

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Housing beyond land rent?: A critique of market housing solutionism

Housing beyond land rent?: A critique of market housing solutionism

A wizard of disquietude in our midst: Melanie Klein and the critical geographies of manic reparation

From “smart growth” to “frontier” intensification: density, YIMBYism, and the development of garden suites in Toronto

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