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When community values conflicts create impossible conversations

Our neighborhood association is trying to address homelessness in our area but the conversations keep getting stuck between people who want to focus on compassion and services versus people who are primarily concerned about safety and property values. Both sides think they're being reasonable and the other side is being naive or heartless.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Moral frameworks that seem mutually exclusive can trap communities in false choices that prevent creative problem-solving.

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