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  • Reducing blight is possible, experts say

    Lex Talamo

    November 29, 2015 |

    The Shreveport Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Shreveport, Louisiana

    Shreveport, Louisiana, faces blight. New Orleans decreased blight by 30 percent by creating an authority for the task, using technology to collect data, and providing residents with information and help.

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  • Repurposing historic buildings on Detroit's medical campuses

    MJ Galbraith

    July 14, 2015 |

    Model D |

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    Response Location: United States

    Two local hospital systems have worked diligently to balance the preservation of the historic character of their campuses with the need to keep their facilities state-of-the-art. Communities have chosen to repurpose old medical buildings instead of demolishing them and losing the history of the site.

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  • Latin American Cities to Millennials: Move Out of Your Parents' House and Rent

    Gregory Scruggs

    June 29, 2015 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: Chile, Santiago

    Chile and other countries in South and Latin America have begun using positive peer pressure and humor in new housing campaigns to encourage millennials to move out of their parents' homes and into rental units. These campaigns are part of a larger international trend that's working to build rental markets in order to foster economic mobility and opportunity.

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  • How Chicago Is Trying to Integrate Its Suburbs

    Alana Semuels

    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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  • Understand new tool Ithaca may use to fight housing crisis

    Brian Crandall

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

    Susan Kelleher

    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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  • New Orleans ends veteran homelessness

    Chris Peak

    January 20, 2015 |

    NationSwell |

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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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  • The End of Gangs

    Sam Quinones

    December 29, 2014 |

    Pacific Standard |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In 2014, the Los Angeles Police Department announced that gang-related crime had dropped by nearly half since 2008. The transformation of LA holds lessons for decreasing violent crime through community policing, a focus on gangs, and the use of CompStat.

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  • Land, Co-ops, Compost: A Local Food Economy Emerges in Boston's Poorest Neighborhoods

    Penn Loh

    November 07, 2014 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    By the 1980s, Roxbury and north Dorchester had been devastated by the disinvestment and white flight of the 1960s and 1970s. Racist banking and housing policies (“redlining”) had segregated people of color from opportunity, barring them from getting home loans except in certain neighborhoods. So the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) brought together residents to develop their own comprehensive plan to revitalize their community, building a community food system along the way.

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  • Public Housing Works: Lessons from Vienna and Singapore

    Anna Bergren

    June 09, 2014 |

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    Response Location: Austria, Vienna

    Public housing programs in Vienna and Singapore provide examples of successful policies. Not only do they provide housing, but they also prevent skyrocketing housing costs, and promote social cohesion. The two cities have created successful housing programs that are worth emulating.

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