Our neighborhood association is trying to respond to increasing homelessness and we're split between people who want to advocate for more services and housing, and people who want to focus on 'safety' and 'cleanliness' in ways that feel like criminalizing poverty. The meetings have gotten tense and I don't know how to bridge the gap between people who seem to have fundamentally different ideas about what community responsibility looks like.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group is discovering that their shared concern for community masks deep disagreement about who belongs and who deserves care.
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