Chicago Police giving out police swag and collecting names at the anti-homeless people Uptown Church Chicago church festival in 2021.
Recently in 2024 this church opposed the rezoning for a homeless shelter, leading to a zoning denial that prevented the shelter from opening and housing unhoused people. #Gentrifiers#NIMBY#Police#UptownChicago
Es gibt Pläne für ein europäisches Hochgeschwindigkeitsnetz für Züge, das durchaus geeignet wäre, den innereuropäischen Flugverkehr zu verringern. Eine der Strecken in diesem Netz wäre Wien - München. Das wäre in 2½ Stunden machbar. Vorteil für die Ösis: sie würden damit auch Bregenz von Wien in 4½ Stunden erreichen, was derzeit deutlich länger dauert. In Österreich wird auch schon eifrig geplant. Was fehlt, ist eine Reaktion aus Deutschland. Hier und speziell in Bayern werden halt nur Autobahnen gebaut, keine Bahnstrecken. Interessantes Video wie ich finde (9min.): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsGYh14vIEk https://piped.video/watch?v=EsGYh14vIEk
Es ist allerdings hier im Wesentlichen das Land #BadenWürttemberg, das den Ausbau verschleppt.
Das hat zwar einen angeblich #grünen Ministerpräsidenten, der allerdings mehr ein Daimler-Lobbyist denn ein Umweltschützer ist und einen Landesverband, der so rechts ist, dass er komplett in die CDU eintreten könnte, ohne dass sich deren Politik messbar ändern würde.
Und natürlich eine bundesweit vielleicht nur noch von Bayern übertroffene #Nimby-Quote.
🧵/1 It strikes me that #Nimby is an extraordinarily successful word in activism, so successful that popular culture is pushing us away from using it because it "offends" the very people it perfectly, irrefutably identifies who are irrefutably responsible for the crisis it creates #Climate#HousingCrisis
Climate movement doesn't really have a powerful word like #NIMBY for the folks steadily making it all worse but clearly there's a need. Think of all these twits wrestling for the mic to trash a #CarbonTax while NEVER having offered a solution & NEVER being held accountable for it #Climate#HousingCrisis
Cool story about high-rise apartment buildings being built in Vancouver on land owned by the Squamish First Nation — a project spearheaded by the Squamish Nation itself.
"Predictably, not everyone has been happy about it." And that's partly because some people have an attitude that "can cast Indigenous people in the role of glorified park rangers."
12 Jan 1600: Charles Howard 1st Earl #Nottingham Lord High Admiral, #Armada veteran issues a warrant favouring Alleyn & Henslowe's new Fortune Theatre in #London#otd (National Trust images)
"San Diego is short around 90,000 homes…. We're not going to overcome this deficit anytime soon just building single-family housing."
I see comments from residents pushing back on multi-family housing and ADUs, and it frustrates me a great deal. “Preserving neighborhood character” is a lost cause. San Diego as we’ve known it is gone—the question now is what will replace it? I don’t see a desirable alternative to massive multi-family housing and public transit.
@mitchw This is the result of American tax policy, believe it or not, combined with a national real estate bubble. The tax break for homeowners combined with undertaxed inheritance means that many families put most or all of their generational wealth into a house. That means they cannot allow housing prices ("value") in their neighborhood to drop--that would be as if someone just took 15% or something out of your 401(k). Thus NIMBY and BANANA. #Taxation#NIMBY
… These are just two small stories about small cruelties in a small part of the world. My world. They’re not earth shaking – they are parts of the death-by-a-thousand- cuts that too many of us are facing as we slowly bleed away hope for a better now and faith in our neighbors … #nimby#neighbors#writing https://curiousmagpie.blog/2024/01/09/3659-nimby/
Whelp, just got in another day-long argument on ye old Facebook about the housing crisis and probably lost a few IRL friends over it. NIMBYies want to save a 250 yr old farmhouse in MA (housing crisis) that belonged to a civil war general & want to block a 140 units of housing that includes affordable housing.
Me: if you want to commemorate a Union general build a statue. Not save the farm house he got his diapers changed in.
"To get America building, we need to understand what actually gets in the way of most projects. It isn't bureaucrats in Washington, or counties with strict height limits on buildings, or environmental activists chaining themselves to pipelines. It's pissed-off locals, who don't want stuff — any stuff — built in their backyards."
The character assassination by the zoning overlay opposition of anyone who expresses either support or an undecided opinion on the topic is out of control. A few angry wealthy white homeowners are stifling debate with vitriolic attacks. #Petaluma#NIMBY#Urban#Zoning
Carlos Moreno, a Franco-Colombian urbanist, has been helping spread the idea of 15-minute cities — where people can access key things in their life within a short walk, bike ride or transit ride of their home. But the climate solution is seeing huge challenges, including conspiracy theories and resistance from the global Right.
Immer dieses #NIMBY - Bashing. Man muss doch mal einsehen, dass auch die Geier Interessen haben und es nur demokratisch ist, wenn sie diese offensiv vertreten!
Just started reading the 568! page #Eversource Electric Sector Modernization Plan. The highlight so far is the enormous increase in capacity required to switch from gas to heat pumps for winter heating.
This is going to be a massive and contentious issue, particularly with the #NIMBY movement.
The main thing that makes me curious about alternate economic systems is facts like a top 5% salary in the UK being £80k/year. Statistically that makes you 'rich', but it just.... doesn't. Rich is Lamborghinis and yachts, £80k pre-tax is maybe being able to afford a house in whichever major city you have to live for work and having a rainy day fund. I hate that we all just accept that having even moderate financial stability is to have made it, when in reality homeownership and not retiring below the poverty line should be the literal bare minimum that everyone deserves.
@malwaretech same here in #TheNetherlands. ‘Richness’ is quite fragile, and if you don’t have a top 5% or double income, live is quite hard. And if anything threatens that income, you fall down quite ‘a bit’.
Needless to say that the real rich, as in yachts and Lamborghini’s, are not part of that top 5% income 😉.
It’s beyond me why we put up with all this for so long. My take is that people are quite limited in their worldview and perception of others, the #nimby’s.
Torrance to reconsider ban on touch-and-go flight training operations (www.dailybreeze.com)
The council voted to reconsider allowing touch-and-go exercises, more than a month after previously opting to limit when such practices could occur.