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How to rebuild fractured neighborhood community connections

Our neighborhood used to have this amazing sense of community but over the past few years people have gotten more isolated and suspicious of each other. A few of us want to try to rebuild that connection but we're not sure how to bridge the divides that have formed or whether people even want to try anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Community erosion happens gradually but restoration requires intentional vulnerability and the courage to reach across accumulated mistrust.

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