Friday Funny: A YIMBY Smackdown
This is a strange one.
Fans of zoning reform—specifically upzoning—were interested in the news earlier this month that the city of Minneapolis might allow fourplexes on all residential properties in the city.
One YouTube user took it a step further and made a cheap version of a wrestling match featuring a rap track, repeated body slams of the fourplex and some censored bad language. The only sign that this video wants the fourplex idea to pass into law comes at the end, when one of the wrestler's says "Yes Please" to more neighbors and throws the #N4MN hashtag.
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Published on Thursday, March 8, 2018 in
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