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Europe has no visible NIMBY movement because its NIMBYs already won: nobody proposes suburban densification, so nobody has to fight it.

Drawn from what Samuel Hughes said

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housing What a place to live costs and why: how much gets built, zoning, and who is blamed for the price.

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  1. Samuel Hughes

    Editor at Works in Progress writing on architecture

    I suspect the same is often true in the rest of Europe: NIMBYism is the ultimate reason why the French and German states don’t solve their housing shortages through unbanning densification, but since the claims of the NIMBYs have been preemptively conceded by everyone, NIMBYism has basically remained latent.

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