I'm not in Chicago, along with 99% of the US population. YIMBY literally backs the repeal of the Faircloth Amendment, along with tenant protections. That said, saying nobody can build housing until we have 60 Democratic senators is absurd.
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Chicago is the 3rd most populous city in the US. It's only 9th on the list of highest proportion of vacant housing to homeless people with 57+ units per unhoused person. Chicago is representative of the situation across the majority of the country. We have a greed problem, not a building problem.
jul 21, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Austin saw rents drop 20% because they built a significant amount of housing. Denver has seen a 10% drop because we built a substantial amount. This is good for tenants. Homelessness gets solved through SROs and Permanent Supportive Housing (which gets built by a specific subset of developers).
jul 21, 2025, 2:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Right now, SROs are illegal in huge parts of the US, but they can be legalized without 60 US senators voting together on something. They just require zoning changes. When I was unhoused (couchsurfing+camping), an SRO was exactly what I needed, but it wasn't (and still isn't) available.
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