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When your community work produces unintended harmful consequences

I spent twenty years building affordable housing in this neighborhood and now it is gentrifying anyway and I feel like I accidentally helped displace the people I was trying to serve.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Good intentions meeting complex systems can create moral injury when outcomes contradict purposes.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Political and civic legacy?”

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