# Social media as zoning review board

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2023-01-26

city-planning, development, housing, housing-politics, land-use-planning, nextdoor, nimby, planning, urbanism, vice, yimby, zoning

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[This is an interesting article](https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ap98/nextdoor-housing-crisis-policy) about the neighborhood-based social network, Nextdoor, and how it has become a tool for housing politics:

> _Overall, activists both for and against more housing regard Nextdoor as an increasingly influential and even critical tool in the fight, which conflicts with the platform’s marketing as a friendly, kinder social media. Rather than being the neighborhood bulletin board, Nextdoors around the country are looking more like the local zoning commission hearing._

Housing debate is no stranger to social media, but in the case of Nextdoor, the audience gets focused down to the scale of a neighborhood. And that clearly changes things.

For the full article, [click here](https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ap98/nextdoor-housing-crisis-policy).

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/social-media-as-zoning-review-board)*