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When age affects your voice in neighborhood advocacy

I started attending city council meetings about the proposed highway expansion through our neighborhood but I am the only person under forty there and no one takes me seriously.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Generational dynamics in civic spaces can silence those who will live longest with the consequences of today's decisions.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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

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