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  • Eine Metropole entfernt ihre Autobahn – ein Rezept gegen Versiegelung und Wohnraumnot?

    February 22, 2024 |

    Riffreporter |

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    Response Location: United States, Rochester, New York

    Seit die Stadt Rochester im US-Bundesstaat New York begonnen hat, die Stadtautobahn zurückzubauen, ist dort Platz für Bürgersteige und Radwege. Zudem kommt die Natur langsam zurück – und der Verkehrskollaps blieb aus. Doch das Beispiel zeigt auch, wie wichtig es ist, die Bürger in die Planungen miteinzubeziehen.

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  • How Mill Creek mobile home residents bought the land under their feet

    February 21, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Mill Creek, Washington

    ROC USA helps residents of manufactured home communities form co-ops to purchase the property their homes are built on, giving residents more stability and control over where they live. The organization has helped create 312 manufactured home communities in 21 states since 2008.

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  • The Black Immigrant Women Who Bought a Minneapolis Mall

    February 20, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Ignite Business Women Investment Group and the nonprofit African Career, Education & Resources Inc. (ACER) are working together to raise funds to collectively acquire commercial real estate for members of the group and other small businesses — particularly those owned by African immigrants — in the community. Joint efforts allowed members to acquire and revitalize an old strip mall, providing retail space for local small business owners.

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  • Can We Fix Mental Health Crisis Response in the Hudson Valley?

    February 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Ulster County, New York

    Mobile crisis response teams, like CAHOOTS and the Ulster County mobile teams, deploy crisis workers and medics instead of police to situations like mental health crises and welfare checks, to avoid unnecessary escalation. Counties with mobile teams say the quality of care they receive has dramatically improved. In Ulster county alone, they receive about 4,000 diverted 911 calls annually and only five to 10% of them require police backup.

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  • Bad roads: Community bridges gap amid government neglect

    February 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Karim-Lamido, Taraba State

    After a badly needed road construction project was abandoned by officials and contractors, community members banded together to pool their resources and build wooden bridges that made the road passable again.

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  • How a Northwest tribe is escaping a rising ocean

    February 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: Quinault Indian Nation, United States, Taholah, Washington

    The Quinault Indian Nation is building new housing for its community about a mile from its current village on the coast of the Pacific Ocean. The goal is to relocate the whole village to a place further above sea level to avoid flooding and sea-level rise.

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  • Indigenous women reclaim traditional birthing practices

    February 17, 2024 |

    ICT News |

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    Response Location: United States, South Dakota

    In rural areas where obstetric care is hard to access, Indigenous women are opting for traditional birthing practices and building a community around pregnancy and childbirth education. Groups like the He Sapa Birth Circle and the Great Plains Tribal Leaders’ Health Board provide spaces for Indigenous parents to seek advice, receive support and education and get connected with traditional care options.

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  • A Strategy for Success

    February 16, 2024 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Republic of Moldova

    Genderdoc-M (GDM) partners with a local lawyer to offer legal support to members of the LGBTQ+ community in an effort to promote human rights and continue to work toward a more inclusive society. Every year, about 40 people seek legal advice from GDM on matters ranging from workplace discrimination to physical abuse.

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  • The all-women crew fighting Indonesia's peatland fires

    February 16, 2024 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Indonesia, West Kalimantan, Borneo

    The Power of Mama is an all-female firefighting unit that protects the health and livelihoods of the local community and environment by working with village authorities to educate local farmers on safe practices to prevent wildfires and preserve the ecosystem. The unit formed in 2022 with just 44 volunteers, but has since grown to 92 members aged 19 to 60 across six villages.

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  • How a Methodist Church Accidentally Became a Refugee Shelter

    February 16, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Tukwila, Washington

    Riverton Park United Methodist Church has become a shelter for people navigating the immigration and asylum process, hosting 200 to 500 people in the past year. The church recently received $500,000 in donations, spending the majority of it on supplies, staffing, legal assistance and other resources and services to continue supporting refugees.

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