Yes In My Backyard 2024. The yes in my backyard (yimby) act encourages localities to eliminate discriminatory land use policies and remove barriers that prevent needed housing from being built around the country. These activists and their diverse coalition — who call themselves yimbys, for yes in my backyard — have sprung into action to support kamala harris, the democratic.
Harris’s approach to affordable housing has inched closer and closer to what’s known as “yimbyism,” shorthand for “yes in my backyard.” On may 16, 2024, the house financial services committee passed the bipartisan yes in my backyard (yimby) act, which would help eliminate discriminatory land use policies and.