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  • To Combat Potholes, Cities Turn to Technology

    June 18, 2018 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States

    Watch out, potholes. Local governments are coming for you. New technology makes it easier than ever to report potholes, track repairs, and anticipate road issues before they even happen.

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  • After Centuries of Housing Racism, a Southern City Gets Innovative

    June 15, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    In Jackson, Mississippi, a series of community-led cooperatives are creating opportunities for affordable home ownership. This is part of a trend across the country to create community land trusts. They are financed through donations, other community businesses, or commissions. Though each land trust faces hurdles, they are collectively allowing more access to wealth and ownership in historically low-income neighborhoods.

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  • Detroit's demolition program under fire for lack of diversity

    June 15, 2018 |

    Detroit Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Detroit had an opportunity to use its huge budget for demolitions to help minority-owned and Detroit-owned businesses, specifically by using Hardest Hit Fund federal dollars. However, the winning contractors largely were not as diverse or as local as many would have liked. Despite public outcry, the city continues to award contracts to large firms, maintaining the status quo stays. Their minimal efforts to change have not gone far enough, and locals are looking to states like Tennessee and South Carolina, hoping its leaders can learn from the success of others and bring more positive change to Detroit.

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  • A Motel Gets a Noble Second Life on Route 66

    June 14, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    A new trend is transforming old motels into new affordable housing units. NewLife Homes, a real estate group, first turned the Sundowner motel in Albuquerque into apartment units reserved for low-income people, formerly homeless people, or people with special needs. This trend has spread to California, and many of these residential buildings have added supportive staff and community engagement efforts, as well.

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  • A Venice couple is housing homeless people, one small building at a time

    June 08, 2018 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    SHARE, or Self-Help and Recovery Exchange, is a nonprofit organization that “places extremely low-income people into market-rate housing by matching renters two to a bedroom.” The model depends on renters being able to pay and requires renters to attend weekly self-help sessions. The homes are rented out by local investors who are interested in helping homeless people while still turning a small profit via their investment. Currently, SHARE houses 400 tenants throughout Los Angeles.

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  • Barcelona Finds a Way to Control Its Airbnb Market

    June 06, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Spain, Barcelona

    Swamped by short-term vacation rentals, Barcelona pushed Airbnb to share data with government officials and help ensure that only licensed properties are listed on the site. The agreement offers a model for how other cities can respond to the same problem.

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  • Netherlands to build world's first habitable 3D printed houses

    June 06, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: Netherlands, Eindhoven

    After facing a shortage of bricklayers, the Netherlands found a housing solution which also doubled as a way of cutting development costs and damage to the environmental. Project Milestone, a development that creates 3D printed houses, is the first of its kind and is already drawing a steady residential candidate pool.

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  • The community trying to unite rich and poor

    April 26, 2018 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: Canada, Toronto

    The Regent Park neighborhood in Toronto is now home to a mixed income housing development project in which residents of different income groups are living alongside one another. It’s also bringing a private developer and a public housing agency to work together on the project, with the hopes of fostering a sense of community and creating a safer neighborhood.

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  • Citizenship for sale: the countries whose biggest export is passports

    April 25, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    Response Location: Saint Kitts and Nevis

    An increasingly popular way to attract foreign direct investment is to let the world’s wealthiest trade cash and property investments for citizenship. The $2 billion-a-year industry allows the ultra-rich to buy passports that permit visa-free travel to nearly the entire world, often with no residency requirements. Highly controversial, the industry is marked by a lack of transparency and concerns about what happens to civic ties when citizenship can be bought and sold.

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  • The Mumbai creche that means toddlers aren't left home alone

    April 13, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: India, Mumbai

    For the millions of migrant workers employed in the construction industry in India, there is hope for their children. Mumbai Mobile Creches (MMC) is a childcare provider that cares for children while parents work all day. This is part of a law that says any construction site with over 50 women needs daycare, but MMC is one of the few large providers. The benefits extend to everyone involved: the mothers are less anxious and more productive, and kids learn and eat healthy food in a safe environment.

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