In 2021, the nation of New Zealand announced the YIMBY rapture. In the country's five largest cities, you would be allowed to build up to eight-story buildings anywhere within a 10-minute walk of mass transit lines. You couldn't be required to build any particular number of parking spaces. And now, you would be able to build up to three three-story townhomes on any residential lot in those large cities. Five years after news of this seismic event lapped up on the shores of my home in Oregon, I wanted to know: What happened next? What happens after the rapture? YIMBY COUNTRY is an independent, one-shot podcast miniseries by Michael Andersen about what happens after a country decides to re-legalize housing. It's told in a series of 30-40 minute interviews with various New Zealanders involved in the aftermath of the world's most successful upzoning campaign.
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Booking probability
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Guest openness
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Signup to Generate a PitchIn 2021, the nation of New Zealand announced the YIMBY rapture. In the country's five largest cities, you would be allowed to build up to eight-story buildings anywhere within a 10-minute walk of mass transit lines. You couldn't be required to build any particular number of parking spaces.
Recent episodes include "The Councillor" (29 October 2026, 43 minutes), "The Torchbearer" (13 September 2026, 30 minutes), and "The Essayist" (23 July 2026, 30 minutes).
YIMBY Country publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 31 minutes.
Booking probability for YIMBY Country is 26%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. YIMBY Country requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. YIMBY Country's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for YIMBY Country are Property Management & Appraisal. YIMBY Country has a history audience.
YIMBY Country is a history podcast.
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Episode #8
Councillor Julie Fairey is part of what you might call the YIMBY faction on the Auckland Council, a regional "super-city" government created in 2010 to run the newly combined cities of New Zealand's most populous metro...
Episode #7
Jack, the New Zealander featured in this interview, is another sort of person every social movement needs: the recruit. To be clear, he's been in housing advocacy for years now. But this co-founder of the advocacy group...
Episode #6
Once upon a time, back in the 1500s, someone came up with a new way to say "hot take." It came from the French word "to attempt." Brendon Harre has both the mind and the heart of an essayist. While working as a psych...
Episode #5
I'm not prepared to claim that Eric Crampton and Benno Blaschke are the nerdiest of all the nerds involved with New Zealand's zoning reforms, but they are the only ones who happily self-identified as such on the air...
Episode #4
<p>Many thousands of people's homes will exist because of people like Marko Garlick.</p><p>By day, Garlick works as a lawyer in Auckland's capital city of Wellington; by night, he lives with a couple roommates in a...
Episode #4
Many thousands of people's homes will exist because of people like Marko Garlick. By day, Garlick works as a lawyer in Auckland's capital city of Wellington; by night, he lives with a couple roommates in a house they...
Episode #3
<p>The most important part of what happened to housing in New Zealand in the last 10 years is what happened to housing in Auckland in the last 10 years.</p><p>In today's episode, two professionals lay out the...
Episode #3
The most important part of what happened to housing in New Zealand in the last 10 years is what happened to housing in Auckland in the last 10 years. In today's episode, two professionals lay out the numbers. In short...
Episode #2
<p>Somewhere along the journey from inspiration to legislation, a good idea needs to be carried along by people like Chris Parker. Parker's work is to map the big abstract facts of his field, economics, across the rocky...
Episode #2
Somewhere along the journey from inspiration to legislation, a good idea needs to be carried along by people like Chris Parker. Parker's work is to map the big abstract facts of his field, economics, across the rocky...
Episode #1
<p>New Zealand's former minister for housing and resource management is a very specific and important sort of legislator: the kind whose power and influence revolve around the fact that he's a bit of a...
YIMBY Country
<p>After seven years as a professional YIMBY, I wanted to know: What happens after you win? So I decided to go to the other side of the world and ask.</p>
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