In general, do you agree with the YIMBY movement?

👍 Yes (38%) – "Unlimited city growth is done at the expense of green and agricultural land. I see this happen everyday in Florida. It requires more infrastructure, which is often an Invisible cost. It also means people living farther away from workplaces and necessities, which in turn eat into personal and family time and transportation expenses. The best way to prevent these negative impacts is to increase density. Regulations allowing greater building density are a good step in solving this issue, and could also include allowing single-family detached housing to build accessory dwelling units (ADUs). These can be affordable for a larger population, and a source of income for the homeowner."

• "Housing is something that should be available to people from all income levels. It's so disappointing to think we might be renting for the unforseen future. Rent prices are so out of control in some areas. How can a young person getting to get out on there own do it? Only with roommates unless they're earning high income. Trying to buy a house in our area means you have to be ready to offer tens of thousands above asking price. Or you get taken out by investors throwing down all cash. Something has to be done to change the current system."

"Increasing housing density in urban environments can ease supply shortages mildly, but the real solution is opening more land availability to all urban growth boundaries. Opening up more land for development brings down costs. Simple supply and demand. If we truly want to solve the housing shortage, we need to open more land for development."

• "Single family home zoning created this unsustainable sprawl we have currently. A more centralized neighborhood would reduce the need for vehicles and major roadways."

👎 No (37%) – "Focusing on low income is not the way. It’s to expensive and developers don’t want to touch it. They just need to remove the tape and allow new home construction easier and with that prices will come down because there will be more builders in the game."

• "Congestion, noise, stressed schools and public facilities, and all the things associated with why I moved from a local town that changed their land zoning to allow more multi-housing units to a neighboring town that doesn’t even allow apartments. My quality of life improved 1000%. There are millions of acres of barren land between Los Angeles and Las Vegas for those who want affordable housing."

"If you make the biggest investment of your life in a home and then they change the zoning laws and allow a high density low income housing unit next door, your investment decreases astonomically. You could see banks pull loans to these adjacent properties as the loan payoff is now more than the new value (upside down loans)."

• "I am a landlord and know from experience that people who rent rarely take care of their homes like people who own their property. This indeed will affect property value. Instead, communities need to take off the restrictions they have to only allow a certain square foot home to be built in that community. The 50s and 60s saw neighborhoods of small brick houses that were for the then middle class. Let's get away from the ideas that our homes have to be big, bigger, biggest!"

🤷 Unsure/other (25%) – "I don't mind affordable housing in my neighborhood, but I have a huge problem with continuing to destroy farmland and forested areas for this. In my area I only see luxury housing popping up, and trees continuing to disappear. We need to keep forested areas for flood protection, to keep our air clean, etc. I'd rather see existing houses turned into affordable, multi-family solutions, than new complexes that further jeopardize our environment."

• "I agree that there has to be a change to the housing shortage, but I don't know if changing the zoning laws is the answer. This still leaves the responsibility for housing up to big investors to building multi-family units and then hold rent prices as high as they want."