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How communities navigate competing values in decision-making

Our community garden committee can't decide whether to allow a developer to buy part of our land for affordable housing and we're split between people who see housing as more important and people who think we're giving away something irreplaceable.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

When shared spaces become contested ground, communities must choose between different versions of the common good.

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