@APHClarkson Wait, YIMBY is a product of the right? What? In Germany the most improtant YIMBY politician is Kevin Kühnert, former head of JuSos; in the US, it's Scott Wiener, who for his work on LGBTQ rights is loathed by the alt-right.

@Alon @APHClarkson In Belgium too PS politicians are quite YIMBY, especially the younger ones.

@DiegoBeghin @APHClarkson Yeah, and in the UK, Labour is running on building more housing. The center-right thinktanks in Britain are atypically YIMBY, but that's about it.

@Alon @DiegoBeghin YIMBYism in the Anglosphere has in the last 18 months become monomaniacally focused on deregulation as it became adopted by Centre Right and economic liberal policy entrepreneurs alienated by Tories and GOP in their current form. So that perspective that also focuses on state investment and planning incl. social housing you still get in its EU form has been pushed aside

@Alon @DiegoBeghin the YIMBY stuff didn't raise my hackles until it got seized on in the Anglosphere by a lot of policy actors who view deregulation as the only lever to pull, and that then started to also get entangled in increasingly authoritarian language and mindsets when it comes to how to get local communities onside. The almost dehumanising language used towards a very vague and broad "NIMBY" concept sounds increasingly like 1920s Bolsheviks blaming kulaks for all ills.