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When your voice gets lost in community organizing

I started attending these community meetings about local development but I realize I am the only renter in a room full of homeowners and my concerns are not being heard.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Grassroots movements can replicate power imbalances they claim to challenge, marginalizing the very people they should serve.

Ideas that help explain it
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