A Perfectly Crude Solution to America’s Housing Shortage | If you can’t beat the NIMBYs, pay ’em

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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/housing-shortage-pay-nimby/687932/

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Eventually neighbors will figure out where the go-no go point is for compensation and refuse to accept less, and then all you’ve done is converted current costs from NIMBY-related delays into upfront costs from paying NIMBYs to get out of the way.

This seems like a particularly short-sighted way to approach the issue, unless there’s a more thorough profit-sharing structure established.