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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.

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

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