“I would describe this as the beginning of a YIMBY moment nationally,” Alex Armlovich, senior housing analyst at the Niskanen Center, told Yahoo News, using the recently coined acronym for “Yes In My Backyard.”
a diminution of their power over zoning, and there wasn’t enough support among Republicans for the Arizona measure to pass.
At City Hall in New York City, activists and homeless people call for greater access to housing and better conditions at shelters. “It would fundamentally change our county,” Assemblymember Ed Ra, a Republican from Nassau County, just outside New York City on Long Island, told Yahoo News. Ra gave an example of a Long Island Rail Road station near his home.
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