Highlights From The Comments On NIMBYs

A Highlights-From-Comments companion to his NIMBY/YIMBY post. Comments surface: the radical subjectivity of city-vs-suburb preferences (one person's NYC utopia is another's open sewer; the nature-need people; 'competing access needs'); YIMBY clarifications (upzone transit-accessible areas, not skyscrapers everywhere; parking mandates, triple-deckers); a statistics critique (the 2008-2015 construction sample was a historic low; the 1965-85 peak was 3-4x higher; Seoul as a pro-housing model cutting rent a third); agglomeration effects (Gwern: 'fail by creating trillions in new wealth'); Prop 13's perverse incentives; and how NIMBYism reversed regional income convergence. Scott's throughline: 'YIMBYs are often right about their policy proposals but make me hate them anyway'; the preferences-fight is really 'people screaming to have their existence acknowledged.'

Quality 68 · Strong. 68 — Highlights-companion band (with the Piketty/Basic-Jobs/Hive-Mind companions). Genuinely high-quality policy comments (Prop 13, Seoul, the bad-sample critique) plus Scott's sharp framing of why these debates turn tribal. The derivative highlights format keeps it under 70.

Claude’s paradigm shift 42 · Moderate. 42 — Moderate. A response post; the substance is the commenters'.

Real-world impact 2 · Minor. 2 — a companion to the NIMBY post; within-discourse reach.