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When community organizing reveals conflicting interests among members

Our neighborhood group formed to address gentrification but half of us are homeowners who've benefited from rising property values and half are renters being pushed out. Every meeting feels like we're talking past each other even though we supposedly want the same thing.

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A group united by shared concern discovers their material interests fundamentally oppose each other.

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