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The YIMBYs Won over the Democrats

A niche pro-housing movement has convinced mainstream Democrats of the need to build.

As president, Donald Trump tried pushing the message that Democrats were out to “ destroy the suburbs,” after Senator Cory Booker of New Jersey proposed to provide grant funding to jurisdictions that updated their own zoning to ease the construction of affordable homes. But the pro-housing movement’s biggest recent defeat came at the hands not of a Republican, but of Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs, a Democrat who vetoed an ambitious bipartisan starter-home bill, prompting backlash from progressives and conservatives alike. Even if Trump or Harris polarizes national Republicans against equity-minded zoning reform, booming red states such as Texas and Florida are unlikely to turn resolutely against development and growth, the twin staples of their political success.

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