Day 198 : Housing issues with NIMBYS and YIMBYS

As I read an article "he horrible housing blunder - Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake", I found two interesting things from my own perspectives.

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One, it is actually praising Japanese hosing policy, or more strictly speaking housing policy for Tokyo, referring that "Tokyo has no property shortage; between 2013 and 2017 it put up 728,000 dwellings—more than England did—without destroying quality of life".
That is a good news! But we also ask, how has been our "quality of life" compared with those big cities in the world?

Second, NIMBYS, not-in-my-backyard people are everywhere, who say ok to anything outside of their own areas.
But, YIMBYS, yes-in-my-backyard people are fledgling but increasing in big cities, that is also a very good news and hope for our societies.
We should have broad minds for a better society as a whole....

Word of the day
fledgling : 駆け出しの、巣立ちしたばかりの、未熟な、新入りの

Quote of the day
“If every household clean it's own surroundings, the city will be clean.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita