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Scenario

How to navigate community conflicts over housing development

Our neighborhood association is fighting about whether to approve new housing development and it's split between people worried about changing community character and those of us who think blocking affordable housing is stealing futures from the next generation.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A community is fracturing along lines of preservation versus progress, with each side claiming moral authority about what they owe the future.

Your guide for this
Juana
Juana works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Intergenerational justice — what we owe the future?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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