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  • These Cities Tried to Tackle Disinvestment. Here Are Lessons From What Happened.

    December 30, 2020 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States

    Various government policies and programs have been implemented in Black communities facing urban decline but not all of them have been completely successful. Initiatives included: Expanding public transportation, refining tax codes, providing incentives for corporations, and supporting small businesses. The ideas yielded some results but also led to unintended negative consequences.

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  • After 3 years and $1.5 million devoted to testing rape kits, Alaska made one new arrest

    December 30, 2020 |

    Anchorage Daily News |

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    Response Location: United States, Alaska

    Despite hopes that testing a backlog of rape kits would reveal many new serial-rape suspects, Alaska's three-year push to test 568 kits under the federally funded Sexual Assault Kit Initiative led to only one new prosecution. The reasons the program fell short of expectations include a lack of usable DNA samples, errors by investigators, cases in which victims and suspects had died or victims no longer wished to proceed, or the kits revealed no evidence that wasn't previously known. Alaska is now footing the bill to test more kits, which contain physical evidence collected after a rape.

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  • Ils rendent un visage aux disparus

    December 30, 2020 |

    Les Jours |

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    Response Location: France

    Le Comité international de la Croix Rouge a pour mission d'aider les exilés à retrouver la trace de proches disparus et/ou perdus de vue. Grâce à un partenariat avec l'école d'ingénieurs INSA, plusieurs applications ont été créées et testées sur le terrain pour faciliter ce travail fastidieux. Les étudiants et leurs professeurs ont développé deux applications permettant d’améliorer la traçabilité des corps anonymes repêchés par les sauveteurs en mer et inhumés sans identité mais aussi pour automatiser le traitement des images des corps récupérés en mer, pour qu’elles soient regardables par les familles.

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  • The marathon: How Ontario succeeded in former GM plant's redevelopment this time

    December 29, 2020 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Ontario, Ohio

    The city of Ontario, Ohio, redeveloped the site of a former General Motors plant in an endeavor to bring back jobs. Extensive cleanup, construction, and collective action resulted in a clean facility and a bright future. The site will soon be home to the first new tenant: A specialty bags production plant.

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  • 'We stopped being afraid to meet local people': The Czech lunches that connect families

    December 29, 2020 |

    The Local |

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    Response Location: Czech Republic

    Migrants and native Czechs are breaking bread together in an initiative designed to promote tolerance. Next Door Family connects locals with migrants who seek a sense of belonging and security in their new homes. Over 40 percent of families met up again on their own. The project was also implemented in several other European countries.

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  • Pima County program getting people out of jail quicker, speeding up chances for a new life

    December 29, 2020 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    An array of services in Pima County, Arizona, greets hundreds of people getting released early from jail or helps keep them out of jail in the first place. By providing drug treatment, housing, job assistance, and other help that people need instead of incarceration, the county's Criminal Justice Reform Unit and Jail Population Review Committee saved the county $2 million in jail costs over just part of 2020. Drug use also declined and officials hope to see longer-range benefits in lower recidivism.

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  • New York's Real Climate Challenge: Fixing Its Aging Buildings

    December 29, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    A housing project in Brooklyn is taking nine apartment buildings and retrofitting them to be more sustainable and cut carbon emissions. Casa Pasiva is a $20 million project that aims to reduce heating and cooling costs because of updated machinery and thick exteriors that will improve air quality. Funding for these types of initiatives is not always certain, but a collaboration between a developer and a nonprofit, with some city financing, made this first-of-a-kind green building renovation in New York possible.

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  • Iranian women's group empowers amid pandemic by making masks

    December 29, 2020 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: Iran, Tehran

    An organization in Tehran, Iran is helping women "looking for work to make handicrafts" by allowing them to use donated sewing machines as a means of becoming self-sufficient despite high rates of unemployment. When the coronavirus pandemic impacted the market, however, they shifted to making masks. Specific sales figures for the masks aren't available, but participants say they are grateful to be able to learn a new skill for free.

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  • Under Biden, the Justice Department is expected to again police the police

    December 29, 2020 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, East Haven, Connecticut

    After East Haven, Connecticut, police officers were caught harassing residents based on race, the Obama Justice Department took the police department to court and won a consent decree requiring a long list of reforms, in hiring, training, discipline, and use of force. The oversight, rare for a small city, changed the department's culture and won praise from many residents, who now trust the police more. Such federal action waned in the Trump years, but is expected to revive in the Biden administration, though perhaps under a more collaborative, less coercive model.

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  • Ajo bands together to fight COVID food insecurity

    December 29, 2020 |

    Cronkite News - Arizona PBS |

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    Response Location: United States, Ajo, Arizona

    The Ajo Center for Sustainable Agriculture has helped the town of Ajo in Arizona distribute affordable and nutrient-dense food to the community after the coronavirus pandemic created a significant financial strain on many families. Additional support has come from the town's participation in the Environmental Protection Agency's program Local Food, Local Places which "provides technical support and expertise to help towns leverage food systems to boost economic development."

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