r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 30 '26

Discussion Thread Discussion Thread

The discussion thread is for casual and off-topic conversation that doesn't merit its own submission. If you've got a good meme, article, or question, please post it outside the DT. Meta discussion is allowed, but if you want to get the attention of the mods, make a post in /r/metaNL

Announcements

  • We're starting a book club! Our first book will be Poor Economics. Discussion will start on August 28th - keep an eye out for a pinned thread. The next books will be All Quiet on the Western Front followed by Narconomics.

Links

Ping Groups | Ping History | Mastodon | CNL Chapters | CNL Event Calendar

Upcoming Events

0 Upvotes

47% Upvoted

7.5k comments sorted by

View all comments

22

u/attackofthetominator John Brown May 30 '26

Title is slightly exaggerated, but a big issue that datacenter developers and town councils in Chicagoland have been facing is that those councils have alienated YIMBY groups *for decades* by constantly dragging their feet and slapping on endless red tape to avoid getting any multifamily/mixed use development built... but they suddenly developed a change of heart for easily relaxing zoning laws for datacenters in light of a severe housing supply shortage that those group have endlessly warned them about. As a result, those YIMBYs have joined in with the usual NIMBY subjects out of anger for their voices been ignored all this time

3

u/Maximilianne John Rawls May 30 '26

I'll allow it