Yes In My Bamako Yard - Asterisk Magazine

YIMBYs have been winning in some of the most productive cities on Earth. Legislative wins in California and the UK have made it easier — if still not easy — to build. The logic of pro-housing reforms is both straightforward and well-supported: Fewer regulatory barriers to building mean more houses, which leads to more affordable housing and, in turn, more people able to live in dense cities that offer all the benefits of urban life. City life makes workers smarter and more productive. Urban density spurs greater innovation and raises wages. More people concentrated in compact areas translates into significantly lower emissions per capita compared with rural and suburban areas. Cities are, in short, humanity’s engines of economic growth and prosperity. On average, with every 10% increase in the share of a country’s urban population, its output per capita increases by 30%. And there are no exceptions to this phenomenon; no country has gotten rich without undergoing urban transition.1 A f

YIMBYs have been winning in some of the most productive cities on Earth. Legislative wins in California and the UK have made it easier — if still not easy — to build. The logic of pro-housing reforms is both straightforward and well-supported: Fewer regulatory barriers to building mean more houses, which leads to more affordable housing and, in turn, more people able to live in dense cities that offer all the benefits of urban life. City life makes workers smarter and more productive. Urban density spurs greater innovation and raises wages. More people concentrated in compact areas translates