YIMBY

Let's face it. YIMBY stories are scarce on the ground. So scarce that a first reaction on encountering one is: "They said what? That's unbelievable!"

We've found a collaborative neighbourhood YIMBY in Chicago that invests in the faith that mixed income neighbourhoods can be a better places to live than single-income-bracket ghettos. Granted, NIMBYites in this rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood had their say, with some of the usual moans such as lost parking for businesses (the land is currently in use as a city owned parking lot.)

With residents understandably concerned about what goes into and out of their neighbourhood, its only natural that there are a lot more 'no's that 'yes's to proposed changes.

Well, we truly hope there will be more than one article in this series, stunned as we were by the appearance YIMBYites standing on the neighbourhood barricades and waving at outsiders to come in.