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Scenario

How communities design fair allocation systems when every choice has trade-offs

Our community land trust is trying to create a fair process for allocating affordable housing units and every system we design seems to advantage some groups over others — points for local ties versus newcomers, income requirements that exclude the very poor, family size preferences that favor traditional households.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group confronting the reality that any systematic approach to fairness necessarily embeds particular values and creates new forms of inclusion and exclusion.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with What is justice — philosophical survey?”

Peri

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