Austin's housing affordability crisis has led to significant changes in the city's land development code, with the YIMBY movement gaining momentum. The city council approved reductions in minimum lot sizes and building buffers to promote density and address the crisis. The recent focus on building apartments in the urban core reflects a shift towards more walkable and dense cities, aligning with YIMBY principles.
YIMBY will give the middle class the opportunity to live and thrive in our cities again. Mixed-use, walkable urbanism for the middle class!
Austin is building apartments like crazy (3rd-fastest metro in the US), mostly infill in the urban core. It makes perfect sense for YIMBYs to celebrate that, and we are not shedding our preference for "dense walkable cities" when we do so. https://t.co/pTnnaEzU0Q
The Austin City Council passed controversial changes to the land development code, reducing minimum lot sizes and building buffers for single-family homes to address the housing affordability crisis and encourage density. https://t.co/YMF6LWyT15 https://t.co/2EdiZK8rWB
The YIMBY movement in Austin continues to grow, and the city approved several profound changes to its land development code last week https://t.co/9FP4dxE1hU
This is where I land as well. Austin saw an unbelievable 20 year boom. Affordability was wrecked. The tech boom, pandemic, and everything reached a boil in 2021. Way premature to declare that the recent rent weakness is some huge YIMBY vindication. https://t.co/HV1CZnyDnL