Jerusalem Demsas writes in The Atlantic that of all the objections NIMBYs raise to new housing and infrastructure, perhaps the most risible is the that their community is already too crowded…(The Atlantic)
NIMBYs and overpopulation skeptics share a sense that the world is too full, that their communities are for the people who already live there, and that new people—immigrants from abroad or the next state over—are simply burdens. And in doing so, they create the world they imagine: unacceptable rates of homelessness, a country lagging far behind its peers in building mass transit, and declining trust.