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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.

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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.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.