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How communities navigate conflicting definitions of fairness in local decisions

Our neighborhood council is dealing with a housing development proposal and we're supposed to survey residents about what would be 'fair' but we can't even agree on what fairness means — some think it's about property values, others about affordable housing, others about environmental impact — and the survey questions keep revealing our biases.

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What we've seen

A group confronting how their different values and interests shape fundamentally different conceptions of what justice requires in shared decisions.

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“Where Are You with What is justice — philosophical survey?”

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