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When renters feel excluded from neighborhood decisions

I am the only renter on a block of homeowners and they have neighborhood association meetings about property values that I feel excluded from even though decisions affect me too.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Different relationships to place create hierarchies of belonging that can exclude those whose stakes are real but not recognized as legitimate.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Neighborhood and place-based belonging?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.