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  • In Kenya's Slums, Mapping A Path To Less Destruction

    August 08, 2018 |

    Bright Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Kenya, Kibera

    Slums around cities like Nairobi are threatened as city governments seek to demolish them. One way to help, or at least give residents time to prepare to seek new homes, is a host of different types of mapping. By defining the problem - the problem being the thousands of residents and homes in slums - it becomes harder for governments to ignore those people. Map Kibera uses the software OpenStreetMap to allow for “participatory mapping,” and physical maps have proven success too. Mapping isn’t always enough, but it is an important starting point in the fight for slum residents to keep their homes.

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  • Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change

    August 01, 2018 |

    The New York Times Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    In the late 1970s to late 1980s, activists, scientists, and politicians began to address the climate change crisis. For a decade, they attempted to ask the U.S. to commit to an international agreement to reduce emissions, and they almost succeeded. “In a single decade, they turned a crisis that was studied by no more than several dozen scientists into the subject of Senate hearings, front-page headlines and the largest diplomatic negotiation in world history.”

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  • The Curfew Myth

    August 01, 2018 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    Austin moved away from its teen curfew, bucking the trend in many other cities where such laws are longstanding and efforts to remove them often meet resistance. That is despite data showing they do not reduce juvenile crime or victimization and may foster more mistrust towards the police. Austin has seen a drop in juvenile victimization rates since dumping the ordinance.

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  • The Urbanist Case for Trailer Parks

    July 26, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Manufactured housing—including trailer homes and tiny houses—is a low-cost, small-footprint way to increase affordable housing. However, strict zoning requirements and even outright bans limit its impact.

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  • Chicago Hiked the Cost of Vehicle City Sticker Violations to Boost Revenue. But It's Driven More Low-Income, Black Motorists Into Debt.

    July 26, 2018 |

    ProPublica |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    When Chicago raised the fee for not having a vehicle sticker, the move seemed like a way to raise revenue without punishing compliant drivers. But now, thanks in part to racial disparities in policing, thousands of mostly black people are going bankrupt due to ticket debt.

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  • The Downsides of Property Tax Caps

    July 26, 2018 |

    Governing |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Property tax caps have been found to exacerbate economic inequality. They restrict funding for basic services and push municipalities to increase sales taxes and fees instead.

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  • Checking the blind spot

    July 25, 2018 |

    InvestigateWest |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    In Oregon, there is a law in place that helps guide public school officials in how to react to a child with a possible concussion, but that law doesn't address what to do if a child suffers a concussion during private competitions. To address this loophole, concussion experts as well as a skier that had been impacted by this blind spot, led a legal fight that eventually allowed the expansion of this law to also cover "organized youth sports that take place outside public schools."

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  • 'It's the New Form of Affordable Housing': More People Are Living in Their Cars

    July 24, 2018 |

    Governing |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    With vehicular homelessness on the rise along the West Coast, safe parking programs provide much-needed privacy and a sense of community. San Diego and Santa Barbara are models.

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  • L.A. Offers a Tax Break for Urban Farming—But No One's Taking It

    July 24, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In 2014, the California legislature passed legislation to create the Urban Agriculture Incentive Zones (UAIZ), offering tax breaks to landowners to turn their vacant lots into community farms. However, the legislation has failed to create any kind of community impact: only 4 lots have received the tax break in the 4 years that the program has existed. Landowners have been disincentivized by five-year lending terms and insufficient implementation.

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  • Hong Kong's Pedestrian Mecca Gets the Axe

    July 20, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: China, Hong Kong

    Excessive noise, particularly from street performers, can sound the demise of pedestrian zones. After 18 years, Sai Yeung Choi Street South will reopen to cars. Another solution could have been better noise regulation, says a district councilor disappointed with the decision. That option seemed to work in a simulation project on the street.

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