Matt McDonaldSep 23, 20191 minWHY NIMBYs WIN: Part 5: Somebody is Funding your OppositionYes, that’s right: special interests, and sometimes your competitors, could be surreptitiously funding political and legal efforts to...
Matt McDonaldSep 20, 20192 min“Bad Projects” can ruin “Good Projects”In a 2018 major survey by the San Jose Mercury News, 57% of respondents blame builders as a major reason for the housing crisis....
Matt McDonaldSep 9, 20192 min5 Reasons Why NIMBYs Win, Part 3: CEQA sucks...but not for the reason you think.The California Environmental Quality Act is an existential threat to new development in the Golden State. The fact that the CEQA...
Matt McDonaldSep 3, 20192 min5 Reasons Why NIMBYs Win, Part 2: Builders often don’t commit to the political fightTo the man with a hammer, every problem is a nail. It’s an old adage we all understand, and unfortunately it tends to describe many...
Matt McDonaldAug 28, 20193 min 5 Reasons Why NIMBYs Win, Part 1The old adage that “you can’t fight city hall” is one of the biggest lies we tell ourselves in modern political life. Ordinary people...