{"id":352521,"date":"2025-08-17T20:48:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352521\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T20:48:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T20:48:10","slug":"welcome-to-the-yimbyest-neighbourhood-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352521\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the YIMBYest neighbourhood in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">Persuading yuppies to move to \u201cSwampoodle\u201d was always going to be an uphill battle. So when the ex-industrial zone next to Washington, DC\u2019s main railway station was slated for redevelopment in the 1990s and 2000s, the authorities ditched the neighbourhood\u2019s original 19th-century name, which had already fallen into disuse. Instead, they christened the wider area \u201cNoMa\u201d (\u201cnorth of Massachusetts Avenue\u201d), a syllable or two away from trendy locales like NoMad (in New York) and Soho (in each of New York, London and Hong Kong).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Persuading yuppies to move to \u201cSwampoodle\u201d was always going to be an uphill battle. So when the ex-industrial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[49,978,659,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-352521","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-united-states","9":"tag-us","10":"tag-usa","11":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115046075905283477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}