Monday, May 19, 2025

Malpractice in journalism: How can you opine about pushback against denser housing developments and not mention Next Door?

 
Top headline:  Governing, 5/19/2025
Bottom headline:  Vice, 1/24/2023

Alan Ehrenhalt manages to do so at Governing.



Aaron Gordon explains at Vice.
But it didn’t take long for the posts to gradually stray from helpful, neighborly FYIs to nitpicky complaints about garbage and parking issues. “Fairly early on, you started to see kind of classic NIMBY complaints about things,” Roberts said, using the acronym for not in my backyard, a term that has become associated with anti-housing activists, narrowly, and people who act as if living in a community gives them veto power over anything anyone might do there, broadly.

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