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“It drowns out NIMBYism,” said Heidi Marshall, director of the county’s housing and workforce solutions department.

But Tony Nelson, a former RAF serviceman who runs the Facebook group, denies any charge of elitism or Nimbyism.

“Abundance” is the buzzword and book title for a technocratic theory of “supply-side liberalism” that seeks to clear away the red tape and interest-group NIMBYism standing in the way of government planners who want to expedite the delivery of public services — housing, high speed rail, etc.

“If we need to overcome some NIMBYism to get shelter and housing built,we should absolutely empower a receiver to do that,” Umhofer said.

Appelbuam argues that systemic racism and NIMBYism are not the only factors that have led to bad outcomes for minorities.