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  • Mobile turns blighted homes into affordable housing

    November 11, 2021 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Mobile, Alabama

    Home makeovers are increasing the stock of available affordable housing in Mobile. Instead of constructing new developments, the city is repairing vacant homes with federal housing funds, resulting in a “53 percent drop in blighted properties” while simultaneously alleviating the housing shortage.

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  • ‘Preach now or mourn in the future': How Key West faith leaders are confronting climate change

    November 10, 2021 |

    Southerly |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Key West, Florida

    Officials are joining forces with faith leaders and churches in order to pave the way for climate resilience. In Key West, Reverend Donna Mote is making a religious case for environmental preservation, clean energy, and emissions reductions. “It would be a shame to preserve all these buildings and then have people scuba diving in them in 100 years,” Mote said.

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  • Alone in eviction court: Alabama looks to provide lawyers

    November 09, 2021 |

    AL.com (Alabama Media Group) |

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    Response Location: United States, Alabama

    Legislation in cities like Cleveland, Louisville, New York City, provides legal representation for economically-disadvantaged people who are facing eviction. The city ordinances have drastically reduced evictions as well as the government costs associated with homelessness caused directly by evictions. A public awareness push - through social media, billboards, and door knocking - was also made in these cities to encourage people to show up to their eviction court dates.

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  • Demeter's Developments working to provide a pathway to home ownership in Mansfield

    November 09, 2021 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    A pathway to homeownership for public housing recipients has been forged by Demeter’s Developments, an organization that aims to “turn a Section 8 tenant into a homeowner within a year.” The organization sets aside a part of each rent payment to return to the eventual home-owner and also provides a $5,000 Welcome Home Grant. The rent-to-own program is conditional upon financial literacy counseling and hopes to fight generational poverty.

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  • Frequent moves for Georgia foster youth prompt changes

    November 03, 2021 |

    Street Roots |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    In Georgia, child-welfare officials considering moving a child in foster care from one caregiver to another must delay the move for 14 days. During that pause, a group of involved officials and foster parents hold a video call to explore alternatives to moving the child. Such moves can inflict trauma without solving the underlying problems. Now, moves can't be made hastily on the say-so of just a caregiver and case worker. Data on the effects of the policy are still being collected, but participants generally give it good marks and the state's "placement stability" numbers have improved.

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  • Here's how Charlotte could turn property taxes into rental help

    November 02, 2021 |

    The Charlotte Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    Property taxes are being used to subsidize rent for households that earn up to 30 percent of the area median income. The pilot program allows landlords to use the tax rebates to cover rent for tenants who would be unable to live there otherwise. The initiative makes rent more affordable and also keeps affordable housing from being sold to developers who create luxury apartments, reducing the available affordable housing stock.

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  • Anti-violence programs are working. But can they make a dent in Chicago's gun violence?

    November 01, 2021 |

    WBEZ |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Chicago is home to multiple street-outreach programs that target the people most likely to be shot or to shoot others, and that provide them with social services that keep them and others in their network safe. Programs like READI, CRED, and CP4P have shown strong results in studies of their ability to help people get access to education and jobs while avoiding arrest or injury. But community violence in Chicago is so entrenched that the existing programs lack the scale and structure to make meaningful reductions in Chicago's street violence.

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  • Preventing road deaths through safe system design

    November 01, 2021 |

    Bulletin of the World Health Organization |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    Safe System design is a public health framework for preventing traffic accidents and death. The system adapts and transforms roads as part of a broader system of reforms. In Bogotá, in addition to a city-wide speed limit, high-risk corridors were identified using geo-referenced collision data and modeling. Multiple locations were transformed into pedestrian friendly streets that encourage lower traffic speeds by using speed bumps, bicycle lanes, wide sidewalks, benches, and planters. Officials note that the change has led to a decline in fatalities.

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  • The seeds to build permanent farmworker housing are planted. Will there be a harvest?

    October 29, 2021 |

    Monterey County Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Soledad, California

    A research study is spurring change and leading to the addition of more housing units in Soledad. Agriculture is the main industry of the region, making farmworker housing a priority. Vacant housing has been rehabilitated and several new developments have been built to house both year-round and migrant workers.

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  • Pueblos in New Mexico turn to goats for fire management

    October 29, 2021 |

    High Country News |

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    Response Location: United States, Sandia Pueblo, New Mexico

    Tribes in New Mexico have enlisted over 70 goats to help clear dry brush, branches, and invasive plants, which can otherwise become fuel for potential fires. The program, which has been running for almost a whole year has proven successful and it serves a dual purpose--the goats eat, and the chances of potential fires are greatly reduced. "Sandia Pueblo’s goat experiment has garnered interest from other tribes that see goats as a more natural way to tend the land than heavy machinery and chemicals."

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