![This [rooming-house modeled] project is exactly the kind of housing Seattle needs more of to help address the growing lack of affordability in the City, and to reduce car-dependence. But predictably, it has been controversial with some of the neighbors. “All of their cars will probably get dumped on our street,” said one. The project is “going to be a magnet for very sketchy people,” said another, who fears for the value of his nearby $875,000 single-family home. These sentiments perfectly capture the key drivers of anti-density NIMBYism [Not In My Backyard]: bigotry against people who don’t own a single-family house; the obsessive association of all that is good in life with the appraised value your home; and the expectation of a God-given right to a free parking space provided by the City directly in front your house.
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This [rooming-house modeled] project is exactly the kind of housing Seattle needs more of to help address the growing lack of affordability in the City, and to reduce car-dependence. But predictably, it has been controversial with some of the neighbors. “All of their cars will probably get dumped on our street,” said one. The project is “going to be a magnet for very sketchy people,” said another, who fears for the value of his nearby $875,000 single-family home. These sentiments perfectly capture the key drivers of anti-density NIMBYism [Not In My Backyard]: bigotry against people who don’t own a single-family house; the obsessive association of all that is good in life with the appraised value your home; and the expectation of a God-given right to a free parking space provided by the City directly in front your house.
