From NIMBY to YIMBY to PHIMBY, the housing crisis has led to acronyms that help define the battle over new developments.
The first place I rented in San Francisco was half a Victorian flat tucked between the Mission and Noe Valley.
I was shocked (shocked, I say!) my rent was the sky-high sum of $500 a month.
The owner had just bought the two-flat house on 22nd Street for somewhere around $360,000, and would sell it less than a year later for slightly over $600,000. (I thought the people who bought it were nuts.)
To hear more about current housing woes and acronyms, listen to KQED’s Devin Katayama and Jessica Placzek over on The Bay.