Matt McDonald
WHY NIMBYs WIN: Part 5: Somebody is Funding your Opposition
Yes, that’s right: special interests, and sometimes your competitors, could be surreptitiously funding political and legal efforts to...
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Matt McDonald
Sep 20, 20192 min read
“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 McDonald
Sep 9, 20192 min read
5 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 McDonald
Sep 3, 20192 min read
5 Reasons Why NIMBYs Win, Part 2: Builders often don’t commit to the political fight
To 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 McDonald
Aug 28, 20193 min read
5 Reasons Why NIMBYs Win, Part 1
The old adage that “you can’t fight city hall” is one of the biggest lies we tell ourselves in modern political life. Ordinary people...
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