Nimbyist

nimbyist English Adjective en nimby. en w:Farhad Manjoo America’s Cities Are Unlivable. Blame Wealthy Liberals. w:The New York Times 2019-05-22 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opinion/california-housing-nimby.html 0362-4331 It was another chapter in a dismal saga of Nimbyist urban mismanagement that is crushing American cities. Not-in-my-backyardism is a bipartisan sentiment, but because the largest American cities are populated and run by Democrats — many in states under complete Democratic control — this sort of nakedly exclusionary urban restrictionism is a particular shame of the left. https://web.archive.org/web/20190601071146/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opinion/california-housing-nimby.html Noun en nimby.