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Original study: Among SF voters, "73% of homeowners and 84% of renters supported a 10 percent increase in the city’s housing supply." @MotherJones/@kdrum headline: "(Almost) Everyone Hates Urbanization" #NIMBY #YIMBY #journalismPermalink On twitter.com
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Mother Jones' @kdrum's latest blog post on NIMBY opinions was ignorantly written as part of a game of Internet telephone…Permalink On twitter.com
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The underlying data says that conservative and (to a slightly lesser extent) liberal HOMEOWNERS express NIMBY attitudes (i.e., they are less supportive of nearby affordable housing than of citywide AH), while RENTERS do not.Permalink On twitter.com
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Renters in fact SUPPORT affordable units *more* the closer they are located to their homes (mhankinson.com/assets/jmpWeb.pdf, p. 25).Permalink On twitter.com
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Then in a bad game of telephone, Emily Badger writes up that data into an article. nytimes.com/2018/08/21/upshot/home-ownership-nimby-bipartisan.html @kdrum calls this "bringing down the truth hammer."Permalink On twitter.com
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Kevin Drum reads that article quickly and finds a paragraph describing "liberals" and "conservatives" among the homeowners. He think that means everyone, even though the scholars are excluding renters.On twitter.com
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Drum, using no data but lots of stereotypes claims only "young, college-educated people who would like to live in a big city but can’t afford it" support increased density.Permalink On twitter.com
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Despite working for @MotherJones, Drum doesn't seem to read the underlying studies. No one at MJ fact-checks the piece, but they do add the horrible headline. "(Almost) Everyone Hates Urbanization." /endPermalink On twitter.com
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