Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
As someone who has moved around a fair amount, I wondered what it would be like to stay rooted to one place, one community.
It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual.
What's much harder is taking on people in your own community.
Investing for the poor requires participation from the entire community.
Being involved in the well-being and advancement of one's own community is a most natural thing to do.
Our community is like many around the country that have, as the gentleman from New York referenced, sophisticated planning and zoning regulations. These are elements that are developed as a result of local community pressure to balance interests.
A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.
One of the most important parts of my life has been community.
The market doesn't make communities. Markets make networks of self-interested individuals, and they work as long as there's more than enough to go around.
When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.