The case for migration is not as strong has you seem to think. A lot of effects are left out of conventional analysis and if there is any significant segmentation of labour markets, even straight market analysis leaves many workers worse off.
Really appreciate you writing this. I'm ideologically YIMBY but also temperamentally conservative, and I've felt some of the sorts of cross pressures you describe here. It's good to see the position described in a coherent and basically sympathetic way, for much the same reasons that in other contexts I appreciate Yglesias' reminders to the effect that the median voter is 50s, white, no college. It breaks the echo chamber in a way that's really salutary, I think.
Here's an idea: those who are truly on Team YIMBY can help solve the problem simply by sharing their houses or apartments with random newcomers.
But of course no YIMBY will do that.
And that's because the "M" doesn't really stand for "my". YIMBYs want OTHER PEOPLE to give up stuff they have, never ever themselves.
The case for migration is not as strong has you seem to think. A lot of effects are left out of conventional analysis and if there is any significant segmentation of labour markets, even straight market analysis leaves many workers worse off.
Or we could de-commodify housing but go off
Really appreciate you writing this. I'm ideologically YIMBY but also temperamentally conservative, and I've felt some of the sorts of cross pressures you describe here. It's good to see the position described in a coherent and basically sympathetic way, for much the same reasons that in other contexts I appreciate Yglesias' reminders to the effect that the median voter is 50s, white, no college. It breaks the echo chamber in a way that's really salutary, I think.