tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394091530012769761.post6330576379894531084..comments2024-03-27T04:02:47.206-04:00Comments on Old Urbanist: NIMBYism Under the MicroscopeCharlie Gardnerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07317335121565650040noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394091530012769761.post-24522569914550673292017-10-12T04:08:26.747-04:002017-10-12T04:08:26.747-04:00It's not merely resistance to change. It's...It's not merely resistance to change. It's frustration at a lack of power to affect the changes going on around them. This dates to the 1930s.<br /><br />Not only did FDR's FHA subsidize SFHs by only insuring suburban homes, at the same time his Securities and Exchange Act of 1934 included Regulation D, or the accredited investor rule.<br /><br />This restricts private equity offerings to millionaires only.<br /><br />Most historic neighborhoods are full of vernacular architecture financed by local banks and local private equity fundraising, with neighbors pooling their resources to build their own communities. The developer business entity would issue private stocks or bonds.<br /><br />This method of building up your own community was made illegal by the New Deal. And the securities laws throughout the SEA of 1934 have resulted in the consentration of banking in America such that there are tens of thousands fewer local banks than there were 90 years ago.<br /><br />We all know what the FHA did, starving cities of capital, and particularly black neighborhoods.<br /><br />All of this has led to a concentration of finance -- both equity and debt -- that takes neighbors out of the process of building their own communities.<br /><br />They don't understand all that, but they do understand the fear of the destructiveness of a kind of change that applies nationalized business models in the same way everywhere.Codyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16887639186484634723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394091530012769761.post-4434895121184577152016-02-29T14:08:03.494-05:002016-02-29T14:08:03.494-05:00The sympathy towards the car-dependent is far high...The sympathy towards the car-dependent is far higher than to everyone else (bus riders, those looking for a home in the community).The Amateur Transporterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11004281174306673509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394091530012769761.post-78501074292325550452016-02-20T08:01:01.031-05:002016-02-20T08:01:01.031-05:00Increased car traffic is far and away the most men...Increased car traffic is far and away the most mentioned concern, with overpopulation/overcrowding second, neighborhood character third, school overcrowding fourth and parking fifth. andrihttp://www.konveksi-surabaya.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394091530012769761.post-74175399353881438092016-02-14T08:14:07.736-05:002016-02-14T08:14:07.736-05:00Right. I read those complaints almost as cries fo...Right. I read those complaints almost as cries for help of car-dependent residents. Many of them actually note that traffic is already bad. Charlie Gardnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07317335121565650040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394091530012769761.post-78681509419446329812016-02-14T08:11:21.998-05:002016-02-14T08:11:21.998-05:00Yeah, I was surprised to see zero complaints raise...Yeah, I was surprised to see zero complaints raised about it in this petition. Ideally I could have found several similar petitions and compared them, but that's a job for another post.Charlie Gardnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07317335121565650040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394091530012769761.post-45674017583518116902016-02-13T10:38:45.266-05:002016-02-13T10:38:45.266-05:00Where I am in Boston, I see NIMBYs complaining abo...Where I am in Boston, I see NIMBYs complaining about property values all the time. Traffic is definitely the number one concern, but people also oppose new development on the grounds that it will lower property values, hurting their wealth AND raise them, increasing their tax burdens.<br /><br />Traffic definitely tops the list, though. Matthew M. Robare https://www.blogger.com/profile/01238656296410351634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394091530012769761.post-50677308356135591682016-02-12T14:52:17.804-05:002016-02-12T14:52:17.804-05:00This is a good insight into NIMBYism. It seems it&...This is a good insight into NIMBYism. It seems it's less about property price, and the aggregate concerns are more about resistance to change, which is a very human thing. People get into routines, like that they have a handle on their situation. Some of those concerns were what I'd call legitimate but others seem very much based on fear of the unknown.Zephhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10977471797021193972noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394091530012769761.post-9327379736773919962016-02-11T22:20:22.540-05:002016-02-11T22:20:22.540-05:00"Traffic", eh? Nobody in Anytown drives..."Traffic", eh? Nobody in Anytown drives, right? Based on my rules (you get to complain about traffic if you don't drive to work) I know fewer than a dozen people, total, who can unhypocritically complain about traffic, everyone else is part of the problem.dr2chasehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16320828055999939449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7394091530012769761.post-29431427484822572042016-02-11T13:43:29.901-05:002016-02-11T13:43:29.901-05:00I always felt that NIMBYism was an outlet for the ...I always felt that NIMBYism was an outlet for the (relative) powerless, such as the frustration of traffic which is a problem that no amount of money and status can overcome. The biggest NIMBYs are always middle class homeowners and it makes sense these are people who have a lot (good jobs, income, home, etc.), and yet still have so many stresses. You see the same stuff in politics: there are a lot of angry people under the jackboot of the one percent and everyone is lashing out where they can.The BLVDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06769576602495239766noreply@blogger.com