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Short Circuit 395 | Won’t You Take Me To YIMBYTown?

Short Circuit 395 | Won’t You Take Me To YIMBYTown?

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 It’s a Short Circuit Live from YIMBYTown! We travel to the Yes-In-My-Back-Yard conference, held this year in New Haven, Connecticut. Our guests discuss recent cases and controversies related to efforts to build more homes and also, unfortunately, do the opposite. First up is David Schleicher, aka “Professor YIMBY,” of Yale Law School. David updates everyone on a case we’ve talked about before, a lawsuit in Montana to try and throw out the state’s “miracle” housing reforms passed a couple years ago. The case is now before the state supreme court after a rocky initial ride. David focuses on the issue of private covenants and how that might affect reforms elsewhere in the future. Then Andrew Fine of Open New York tells the sad tale of a long battle to build low-income housing on a lot—the “Elizabeth Street Garden”—in the middle of New York City. Led by Hollywood celebrities, the effort to prevent the project for “environmental” reasons dragged on for over a decade. Although that act of NIMBYism ultimately lost at the state’s highest court, continuing attempts to stop the project took so long that the city recently just pulled the plug. We end on a cheerier note, though, with Ari Bargil of IJ. He relates the news of a win in trial court in Georgia for our client’s efforts to build “tiny homes.” Does this presage other victories elsewhere? The panel think that through. Click here for transcript. New York Court of Appeals ruling in Elizabeth Street Garden case MAID v. Montana update Georgia Tiny Homes case David’s piece on NIMBY judges
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