Is America is becoming a country of YIMBYs?

By Nathaniel Meyersohn | CNN

New York  — Public support is building for changes to zoning codes and other laws that have dominated American housing policy for decades and restricted new development.

A new Pew Charitable Trusts poll shows broad public approval for several policy initiatives that would make it easier to build new housing, especially apartments.

The poll comes amid a severe housing shortage, a loose coalition of grassroots YIMBY leaders — short for Yes in My Backyard ...