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What's the YIMBY movement and how can it help housing policy?

Published: Aug. 7, 2023, 5:33 a.m.

Grattan Institute\u2019s work on housing policy keeps coming back to one basic idea: Australia needs more housing in the areas where people want to live and work.\n\nSo why hasn\u2019t Australia built enough homes to keep prices under control? Because of the land-use planning regulations that dictate what gets built where. Those planning regulations have a status-quo bias. They give too much say to people who oppose development or change \u2013 the so-called \u2018NIMBYs\u2019, or \u2018Not-in-my-backyard\u2019.\n\nEnter the \u2018YIMBY\u2019 movement: enthusiastic young people who say \u2018Yes-in-my-backyard\u2019.\n\nIn this special Grattan podcast on Australia\u2019s housing crisis, our Senior Associate, Joey Moloney, and guests Jono O\u2019Brien and Melissa Neighbour from the YIMBY movement discuss this grass-roots movement that aims to revolutionise the housing debate and make it easier for young Australians to get a roof over their heads.