YES IN MY BACKYARD!

What if your community became a YIMBY (yes-in-my-backyard) community? What changes would you make to increase affordable housing?

After reading Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, By America, IGSS students partnered with the fair housing organization Open Communities to explore affordable housing on the North Shore. As part of the summative assessment, students drafted their own proposals to increase affordable housing specific to their towns; they then went before the Village Boards to make their case.