Matt Teichman
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11,523 appearances
153 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2009
last heard 21 Jul
Matt Teichman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that is an acronym meaning somebody who doesn't want there to be development and building in the suburb where they live.
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And then yimby, so that's like nimby, except with a Y at the beginning instead of an N, standing for yes in my backyard.
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Yimby, the position, which I think it's safe to say you represent, is some sort of pro-building, pro-development position.
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Is that right?
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Okay, so at least in a lot of the country and certainly in urban areas, it tends to be very expensive to live with certain cities, New York and San Francisco famously having an incredibly inhospitable real estate market.
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How did we get here?
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What caused this housing crisis?
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kind of intuitive, right?
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Like, we don't probably want a factory pumping whatever toxic gas into the main thoroughfare of a city or stuff like that.
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I just ask you about Manhattan?
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So 100 years ago in Manhattan, I had to just build like a single family house somewhere in
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not coincidentally, the two of the most expensive places to live in the entire country.
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Was that the stated justification for the policy or was it more like this is clearly what he had in mind?
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enough I know that people weren't trying to hide that yet.
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yeah, actually, I mean, maybe we can connect some of those dots.
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So is the idea that the origin of a policy that says no big apartment complexes, only single family homes, the origin of that is, well, single family homes are more expensive.
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So we're going to keep the riffraff out.
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Is that kind of the idea?
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Yes.
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And then, of course, in America, you know, the riffraff is always racialized.
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