NIMBYism

Nimbyism nimbyism English Etymology From en NIMBY -ism. Noun - en nimbyism. en w:Paul Krugman Why a Blue City Is Feeling the Blues w:The New York Times 2022-01-18 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/17/opinion/new-york-city-wall-street-economy.html 0362-4331 And in the case of New York, NIMBYism is ultimately the reason a great global city has become a one-industry town, leaving it unusually vulnerable to pandemic-driven economic dislocations. https://web.archive.org/web/20220301202806/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/17/opinion/new-york-city-wall-street-economy.html en Conor Dougherty Twilight of the NIMBY w:The New York Times 2022-06-05 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/business/economy/california-housing-crisis-nimby.html 0362-4331 NIMBY stands for “Not in my backyard,” an acronym that proliferated in the early 1980s to describe neighbors who fight nearby development, especially anything involving apartments. The word was initially descriptive (the Oxford English Dictionary added “NIMBY” in 1989 and has since tacked on “NIMBYism” and “NIMBYish”) but its connotation has harshened as rent and home prices have exploded. https://web.archive.org/web/20220610031740/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/business/economy/california-housing-crisis-nimby.html