Richard Hanania

Support more nuclear plants.

65 and 75 again, roughly.

And voted Trump in 2024.

Just under 50% for boomers and just over 45% for millennials.

Scott writes, it's not even clear that boomers are that much more likely to be NIMBYs.

From Pew.

So here's a chart.

Strong majorities across age groups support policies to allow more housing.

The share in favour of each approach.

So we have bars for 18 to 29, 30 to 49, 50 to 64 and 65 plus years old.

For four questions.

Allow apartments near transit or job centres.

Lowest support among the youngest, 77%.

Highest support among the oldest, 82%.

Require simplified faster permitting, 83-88% from youngest to oldest.

Allow townhouses and small multifamily on any residential lot, youngest has 68%, oldest 46%.

And allow building of homes closer together with smaller yards, youngest 52%, oldest 45%.

Scott captions it, source, selected the most interesting questions from here, link in post.

If you're worried that this is far too theoretical and want to see numbers for a live proposal, here's what people think of a particular San Francisco upzoning plan.

Link in post.