In 2024, The Age reported the YIMBY (‘Yes In My Backyard’) manifesto as follows:
“Key to the YIMBY manifesto is the idea that a restrictive planning system, including existing height and heritage controls, is blocking a potential deluge of apartment construction in inner and middle Melbourne that – if allowed – would force down prices and rents”.
The YIMBY’s argument is that if planning systems were relaxed to allow more high-density apartments to be built anywhere, then home prices and rents would be forced lower by the resultant supply.
