Inside the new group hoping to shake up Fresno's development politics

Inside the new group hoping to shake up Fresno's development politics

Fresno seems like the rare California city where you’re more likely to see residents clamoring for more housing in older neighborhoods, than not. (Except, maybe in Old Fig. Or the San Joaquin River Bluffs.) So, it might be surprising that the Yes-In-My-Backyard movement, or YIMBY, hasn’t quite taken off here, just yet. The movement has grown as more people have pegged California’s extreme housing affordability issues on a fraught, bureaucratic s…