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Scenario

How to address unspoken bias in community decisions

My neighborhood association is split on whether to support a new affordable housing development, and the people opposing it are using language about 'community character' that feels coded but I can't prove it. Half our members genuinely seem to think this is just about parking and traffic, but I think there's something else happening that we're not naming directly.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Competing interpretations of the same situation reveal underlying tensions about who belongs and what values actually drive decisions.

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