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Originally Posted by bossabreezes
I don't understand why the housing market seems like its not keeping up with the demand. Texas is a pro-business and not NIMBY place in general. I'm guessing some places in Austin are more NIMBY, but I don't understand how the market isn't meeting needs in the suburbs.
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Austin’s land use code is from 1984… It is all about replacing greenfields and forests with auto-centric development, horrible at allowing for high-demand infill development (with a few exceptions). And that’s exactly the way our Housing Opposition Groups want to keep it. We were a few weeks away from replacing our antiquated code with a new one in early 2020 when a NIMBY-led lawsuit found a NIMBY-curious judge and threw the whole thing into the courts. HB 2989 could fix all of this but the HOGs have hired two lobbyists to kill it. We need more attention to stymie NIMBYism at every level of government as things only get worse from here.