Reposted by Andrew Fister
It's fair to say regulation is yimby's top priority. What's wrong is that "regulatory reform" is a euphemism for deregulation. The yimby program is the opposite of dergulation; it seeks to impose uniform rules on a chaotic system of arbitrary local decisions made by small local interest groups.
![screenshot from Wikipedia: “[Friendship Heights] is almost entirely occupied by high-rise residential buildings. It has the highest population density of any census-designated place or city in the United States. In fact, its density exceeds that of the New York City borough of Manhattan, which itself is coextensive with the United States' most dense county. The 2010 population of Friendship Village Heights was 4,698, giving it a population density of 88,432 per square mile, versus Manhattan's approximate 70,000.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aj7zl2gwzmtsfzyozfmufkb4/bafkreiaqb26fspt6juwwx7pwrxm6ay62dns7sqykyfm6he7lhvr5kf46za)
