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When communities face losing a shared space to competing values

Our community garden has been our neighborhood's pride for five years but now the city wants the lot for affordable housing and we're split between people who want to fight it and people who think housing is more important than our vegetables, and it's getting personal in ways that might outlast whatever happens to the garden.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

A group is discovering that their shared space held different meanings for different people, and now they must choose between preservation and larger principles.

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