The YIMBYs lost in California but they’re just getting started
Rather than trying to fight NIMBYism directly since development imposes large costs on the current residents and home owners in an area, fight it by using a reverse dutch auction process [0].<p>Developers can bid what they are willing to pay a community for development approval of what they want to build and the communities can compete against each other to win the development. The amount the developer is willing to pay rises each month and the first community to say yes gets the development.<p>This way rather than all the surplus going to the developer and all the costs to the community, both sides benefit. Win-win.<p>Edit. Since it has come up a few times in the comments you can cover the location issue via the developer&#x27;s bid requirement documentation. For example, they could say they need conditions x, y, &amp; z for any site and only communities with sites that meet those conditions can bid. The developer can make the conditions as narrow or broad as they like (all the way from only one site in state meeting the conditions to thousands of sites). It will be in the interest of the developer to keep the conditions broad since the more flexible they can be the more communities will compete for the development and the lower the cost to them.<p>0. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reverse_auction" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Reverse_auction</a>