Our neighborhood group formed to fight gentrification but half of us are homeowners who've benefited from rising property values and half are renters being displaced. We're supposed to be working together but we have fundamentally different relationships to the thing we're fighting.
More people experience this than they realize.
People trying to create change together are discovering their material interests are not aligned.
“Where Are You with Cultural assimilation vs. preservation?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.