This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, March 2, 2020. I'm Keelim Brown.

Secure Private Property Rights. Entrepreneurial activity in a robust

housing market ought to be red meat for Republicans. So where are the Republican

Yimbies? The people who want that dynamism and

flexibility in land use? The Mercatus Centers Nolan Gray makes his case.

The average YMB is probably a young urban professional somebody who probably had to move

just a city for work and regionally you know in the Bay Area these people mostly work in

tech or in New York these people might be in finance or tech or in a whole bunch of different fields.

But they've been brought to cities by work, and they've been shocked to find at how unaffordable rents and homes are and so they've been

kind of galvanized by this issue.

So as far as their politics go, what are they typically?

Yeah, so in general, EMB's tend to be Democrats would be my guess.

You know, most of them are probably fairly progressive on range of issues it's partly a function of you know these being the kind of people who are attracted to cities are generally inclined to those kinds of politics

but you know partly a function of people who get interested in housing generally are more on the left.

Why are they, I understand if you live in a city, you work in a city, there's a good chance that you're going to be left of center,

but why aren't, why are there so few Republican or right-wingers who are Yimbies?

Yeah, that's a good question. That's something that we we ask in the piece in

City Journal because at least on paper this seems like a slam dunk issue for traditional

kind of conservative values. The housing shortage in most cities is perpetuated by over-regulation policies like zoning or excessive

permitting review or excessive use of preservation or environmental

regulations that are otherwise well meaning.

And so a conservative perspective on this might be, you know, we should expand property rights

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