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  • How Chicago Is Trying to Integrate Its Suburbs

    June 17, 2015 |

    The Atlantic |

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    Response Location: United States, Glenview, Illinois

    Many wealthy, white communities in the Chicago suburbs would not welcome an affordable housing development - perhaps residents wouldn’t say so outright, but instead they might pass laws prohibiting apartment buildings or deny permits to units targeted at low-income people. But now, through the Regional Housing Initiative, the housing authorities pool a portion of their Section 8-voucher funds and use that money to subsidize the construction of affordable developments in areas with a low poverty rate, a high homeownership rate, good schools, and access to jobs.

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  • Wyoming Elderly Tough It Out Even As Younger Generations Migrate Away

    June 05, 2015 |

    Wyoming Public Radio |

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    Response Location: United States, Dixon, Wyoming

    These days, most rural communities in the U.S. are elderly communities - 15 percent of Wyoming’s population is over 65 and a high percentage of them live on ranches in small towns. New caregiver programs allow seniors to continue living at home and to keep doing what they are able, with assistance provided if needed.

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  • Understand new tool Ithaca may use to fight housing crisis

    May 20, 2015 |

    The Ithaca Voice |

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    Response Location: United States, Ithaca, New York

    Ithaca works on a three-pronged approach to conquer homelessness, and to make housing more affordable in general.

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  • Can mobile homes save home ownership?

    April 27, 2015 |

    Deseret News |

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    Response Location: United States, Barnstable, Massachusetts

    Thirty-five percent of Americans will never own their home and risk a rent increase or eviction. Owned Communities USA enables working-class families to become home owners through manufactured homes, loans, and legal aid.

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  • Dutch nursing home offers rent-free housing to students

    April 05, 2015 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Deventer

    A Dutch nursing home brings together students and seniors with an innovative housing plan: offering rent-free apartments to students. In exchange, the students must partake in nursing home events for at least 30 hours per month as an effort to help bridge the generational gap and give senior residents a larger community.

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  • Inside the Revival of One of the Nation's Most Notorious Housing Projects

    March 06, 2015 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    SHIELDS for Families works in one of the country's most notoriously dilapidated housing projects to revitalize the neighborhood by providing education, treatment and counseling services.

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  • Seattle's micro-housing booms offers an affordable alternative

    March 04, 2015 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    People need a place to sleep and eat, they need privacy, but they also need community. Seattle had a recent boom in micro-housing which offers a community living model where individuals have a personal tiny room and bathroom but share a kitchen.

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  • How cities are searching for solutions among massive mounds of data

    February 20, 2015 |

    The Globe and Mail |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    New York City suffered from fires that erupted in overcrowded, run-down apartments. Then the city sleuthed through residential records and found that landlords who foreclosed let their properties fall apart and ignored safety-code violations. Greater Toronto wants to expand upon New York City’s method by using transportation surveys, census data and computer data to build transit lines.

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  • Couples lined up for Newark's Valentine's Day vacant lot sale

    February 16, 2015 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Newark, New Jersey

    As a blight-reduction and urban-development effort, the city of Newark sold bare lots in a distressed area to families willing to build a house and live in it for five years.

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  • New Orleans ends veteran homelessness

    January 20, 2015 |

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    Response Location: United States, New Orleans, Louisiana

    New Orleans implemented an extraordinary 10-year plan that engaged unprecedented cross-sector collaboration between government, non-profit, and private entities to provide housing and housing services to the city's homeless veterans. The city's success in providing homes for every single veteran formerly on their streets motivated cities across the nation to tackle the crises using similar means, leading to a 1/3 decline veteran homelessness since 2010.

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