{"id":7177,"date":"2022-08-19T11:22:25","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T15:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homefront.azhousingforall.com\/?p=7177"},"modified":"2023-01-30T15:26:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T20:26:49","slug":"glenn-youngkin-says-nimby-regulations-are-making-virginia-an-impossibly-expensive-place-to-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homefront.azhousingforall.com\/glenn-youngkin-says-nimby-regulations-are-making-virginia-an-impossibly-expensive-place-to-live\/08\/19\/2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Youngkin Says NIMBY Regulations Are Making Virginia an Impossibly Expensive Place To Live"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The governor blamed local restrictions on new development for the state&#8217;s rapidly rising rents and home prices.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Today, Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin took a surprising YIMBY-inflected (&#8220;yes in my backyard&#8221;) swipe at restrictive development regulations that he says are making the state increasingly unwelcoming for renters and homebuyers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;The cost to rent or buy a home is too expensive,&#8221; said the governor in a wide-ranging speech before the Virginia Senate&#8217;s Joint Money Committee today. &#8220;We must tackle root causes behind this supply and demand mismatch; unnecessary regulations, overburdensome and inefficient local governments, restrictive zoning policies, and an ideology of fighting tooth and nail against any new development.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The state of Virginia is short roughly 105,000 homes, according to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upforgrowth.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2022-07\/UFG_Underproduction_Report_Pages.pdf\">recent study<\/a>&nbsp;from the housing advocacy group Up For Growth. Another&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dmz1.dhcd.virginia.gov\/HB854\/executive-summary.html\">report<\/a>&nbsp;commissioned by the state government found that while the state&#8217;s population had expanded by over 10 percent since 2008, housing supply had only expanded by 8.7 percent.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>For fast-expanding regions like t<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=8200500&amp;action=edit\">he northern Virginia suburbs<\/a>\u00a0of Washington, D.C., that&#8217;s meant skyrocketing rents and home prices. The median home price in Arlington County, Virginia, is $836,806\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zillow.com\/arlington-va\/home-values\/\">according<\/a>\u00a0to the Zillow Home Value Index. That&#8217;s up from $667,000 in 2017.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;The really big danger in northern Virginia is \u2026 this unwritten rule or expectation that if you don&#8217;t have a college degree or you don&#8217;t make $100,000 per earner in your household, you should just live somewhere else,&#8221; says Luca Gattoni-Celli, founder of YIMBYs of Northern Virginia, a chapter of national housing advocacy group YIMBY Action. &#8220;And that would be a real shame.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Gattoni-Celli blames the northern Virginia region&#8217;s pressing housing affordability problems on low-density zoning rules that often allow just one house per property.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Reform is in the air, &nbsp;however. Arlington County is currently in the process of developing a &#8220;Missing Middle&#8221; zoning reform that would allow as many as eight units of housing on formerly single-family zoned lots.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Nationwide,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2022\/04\/25\/maine-could-be-the-third-state-to-end-single-family-only-zoning\/\">three states<\/a>&nbsp;and even more municipalities have legalized &#8220;missing middle&#8221; two-, three-, and four-unit homes on all residential land in an effort to bring housing prices and rents down. These zoning fights have typically occurred in deep-blue areas between pro-growth liberals and progressive NIMBYs.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Youngkin&#8217;s comments today are evidence that both the problem of housing affordability and the solution of deregulating housing construction are bipartisan issues.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&#8220;The last election reminded everyone outside of the places that voted for Gov. 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