United States: bipartisan zoning fights and a Republican YIMBY/NIMBY split

New proposals would tie federal infrastructure grants to municipalities reforming exclusionary single-family zoning. The right is split: Republican gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton objects to state-led planning mandates, while San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan wants to cap local development fees and relax building codes.

The UK's "build more homes but who decides" argument in American clothing, plus a real intra-right split between market-liberal YIMBYs and localist NIMBYs that maps onto Conservative divisions over planning reform.