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When shared community spaces lack clear agreements about ownership

Our community garden has become this source of stress because some people treat it like their private plots and others think everything should be shared, and we never actually decided which approach we wanted. Now people are passive-aggressively moving each other's tools and there are unspoken feuds over the tomatoes.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group of people trying to create something together are discovering that unstated assumptions about sharing and boundaries can poison even the most well-intentioned collaborative efforts.

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