The Old Normal

What YIMBYs/housing advocates want is, for me, fundamentally a course correction, or restoration, of what is, or should be, or once was a kind of civic, social, economic, maybe even metaphysical normal. Housing advocates aren’t the ones who “want” anything; that’s applying a language of agenda to a movement whose agenda is to permit what is natural. Housing advocacy is a basic public good which is forced to subsist in a particular political movement. That is, I hope, temporary. Because first, everyone should be a housing advocate. And second, “housing advocate” should come to be a peculiar, anachronistic concept. There were people who *didn’t* think housing was good?