NIMBY - Not in My Back Yard
An attitude of opposition to development projects in one's community. While defended as Jane Jacobs-style neighborhood preservation, it can often be used to safeguard expensive real-estate, maintain "aesthetics", and perpetuate social inequality.
Origin
Coined in 1980 by Walter Rodgers of the American Nuclear Society, the acronym captured growing public resistance to hazardous facilities sited near residential areas. It gained print prominence that November in The Christian Science Monitor, and by the mid-1980s had entered mainstream political vocabulary on both sides of the Atlantic.
Everyday Use
As you might take walks in the mornings, it's easy to see this one play out — a sense of judgment, jealousy, or indictment on our neighbors. But it can also be the inverse — a sense of nostalgia and protection for a vision of our collective neighborhoods that maybe doesn't currently exist, never did exist, and might even be contributing to an unsustainable version of the world where it's easier to "other" people that we don't think belong than it is to simply open our doors and step into a collective future.