Nine of the ten most NIMBY US cities are in the SF Bay Area

Written By H. Pike Oliver

High housing prices in the San Francisco Bay Area might have something to do with the fact that a survey of 562 municipalities across the USA, concluded that nine of the ten most NIMBY (Not In My Backyard) are in that region. The jurisdictions all had a population of 75,000 or more.

The following images are screenshots taken from a video presentation of the analysis entitled The Nimby Awards created and posted by CityNerd (Ray Delahanty) on June 1, 2024. The video may be accessed at https://nebula.tv/videos/citynerd-these-are-the-nimbyest-cities-in-the-us.

Scroll down for characteristics of NIMBY cities, the index (called NIMdex) used to select the municipalities and some key facts about: #1 Sunnyvale, CA, #2, Redwood City, CA, #3 Union City, CA, #4, Fremont, CA, #5 San Mateo, CA, #6 Hayward, CA, #7 San Jose, CA, #8 San Leandro, CA, and #10 Livermore, CA. NOTE: ZHVI = Zillow Home Value Index.

H. Pike Oliver

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, H. Pike Oliver has worked on real estate development strategies and master-planned communities since the early 1970s, including nearly eight years at the Irvine Company. He resided in the City of Irvine for five years in the 1980s and nine years in the 1990s.

As the founder and sole proprietor of URBANEXUS, Oliver works on advancing equitable and sustainable real estate development and natural lands management. He is also an affiliate instructor at the Runstad Department of Real Estate at the University of Washington.

Early in his career, Oliver worked for public agencies, including the California Governor’s Office of Planning and Research where he was a principal contributor to An Urban Strategy for California. Prior to relocating to Seattle in 2013, Oliver taught real estate development at Cornell University and directed the undergraduate program in urban and regional studies. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the American Planning Association and a founder and emeritus member of the California Planning Roundtable.

Oliver is a graduate of the urban studies and planning program at San Francisco State University and earned a master’s degree in urban planning at UCLA.

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