Bridging and belonging in neighborhoods: Transformative Change and Care, Starting From the Block

Over the last year, the pandemic has kept us apart and relegated many of our connections to virtual spaces. But it has also been a chance to reorient ourselves to life and relationships at the neighborhood level. How can one-to-one relationships between neighbors plant the seeds for systems change, different ways of living collectively, and bridges to belonging? Explore connections between a range of bridging efforts rooted in everyday moments of interpersonal connection ― from community care and solidarity through mutual aid organizing, to campaigns that are reimagining community safety, infrastructure, and ownership ― that are building neighborhood bridges across lines of difference. How are these projects creating possibilities far beyond isolation, segregation and discrimination, housing precarity and displacement, and other manifestations of breaking in neighborhoods we see today?