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When homelessness affects your neighborhood spaces

There is a homeless encampment in the park where my kids play and I feel torn between wanting it gone for safety and knowing these people need somewhere to exist.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The proximity of suffering challenges us to hold both compassion for human need and concern for our own sense of security.

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

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