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  • Are Tiny Homes the Solution to the Housing Crisis?

    February 27, 2020 |

    NBCLX |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    Across the country, the use of tiny homes allows millenials with massive debt and other vulnerable populations to become homeowners without enormous mortgage payments. IN the North Texas suburb of Lake Dallas, the country's first tiny home neighborhood allows residents to pay fair mortgage payments while having a place of their own.

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  • Wilmington's HBCU Week gives students a leg up for college. Philly students deserve the same chance.

    February 27, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Wilmington, Delaware

    In Wilmington, Delaware, high schools are hosting college fairs featuring historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to introduce students to institutions of higher education that they might not otherwise know about.

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  • Jacksonville Organization Attacks Violence, Blight With Holistic Approach

    February 27, 2020 |

    Juvenile Justice Information Exchange |

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    Response Location: United States, Jacksonville, Florida

    After the residential real estate market collapsed a decade ago, a developer that had been revitalizing an impoverished Jacksonville neighborhood with single-family homes pivoted to a broader approach to reducing crime and blight. Progress has been difficult, and violence in the neighborhood remains high. But, by building larger complexes and offering an array of services and interventions, Northwest Jacksonville Community Development Corporation is achieving slow but steady social change.

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  • Down on the Farm That Harvests Metal From Plants

    February 26, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Malaysia, Borneo

    A group of scientists in Borneo have proven that plants can supply small levels of the minerals needed to sustain industrial products such as stainless steel. Specifically, a group of plants that thrive in metallic soil can produce nickel. While a small-scale trial has been successful, scientists are in the early stages of proving this can be scaled up - to reduce fossil fuels, support the land, and make metal a product that can be farmed sustainably.

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  • The Runners Helping Each Other Get Back on Track Audio icon

    February 26, 2020 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States

    In New York and across eleven other cities in the United States, a non-profit organization called Back On My Feet leads early morning runs (starting at 5:30am) with members overcoming homelessness and the volunteers who choose to join them. In the course of twelve years, the organization helped over 7,500 members transition into permanent jobs and homes, with 83 percent of members maintaining employment and 70 percent maintaining housing. There are also physical health benefits including lower blood pressure, less dependence on nicotine, and a reduced BMI and obesity risk.

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  • A parent's place? Meet the women fighting for space at SA's rural hospitals

    February 26, 2020 |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Madwaleni

    In the rural Eastern Cape of South Africa, a hospital has transformed their model of care for children with cerebral palsy to better serve the entire family. Offering weeklong stays, the hospital offers physical therapy for the children and emotional and educational support to the mothers of the children. Although this kind of care comes at a financial cost for the hospital, the results have indicated positive outcomes for both the child and moms. Additionally, the hospital staff has also trained the moms to act as community workers, helping to better increase awareness and access to services.

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  • The Beto Effect: Transforming Houston's Criminal Justice System

    February 25, 2020 |

    The Marshall Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Beto O’Rourke’s failed Senate campaign in 2018 nonetheless has made lasting change in Texas’ largest city, where Democrats drawn to the polls by O'Rourke's candidacy swept out Republican judges who had blocked various criminal justice reforms. Since then, Houston's newly Democrat-controlled judiciary has transformed a famously punitive legal culture. It largely abolished cash bail in low-level cases, keeping more defendants out of jail pending trial. The city sends far fewer juveniles to youth prisons, and now prosecutors at all levels face stiffer resistance when they appear in court.

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  • City watchdog says Chicago's arrest diversion program for youth can't be evaluated due to poor record keeping and lack of collaboration

    February 25, 2020 |

    Chicago Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    Over the past 14 years, the city of Chicago has been running a Juvenile Intervention and Support Center (JISC) to help divert youth away from the criminal justice system. The goal of the program, which took a $5 million investment, was to connect them with social services, favoring rehabilitation over punitive measures. But because of record destruction, lack of record keeping, and an inability by the police and Department of Family and Support Services to collaborate, a recent audit has proved unable to determine the success of the JISC.

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  • How medication donation programs could be a game-changer in PA

    February 25, 2020 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Cheyenne, Wyoming

    Unused prescription drugs can often end up in landfills or in "the hands of those who may be vulnerable to misuse and addiction," so Wyoming has introduced a program to decrease those likelihoods from happening. This program, like that of other programs in 38 other states, collects unused medications and redistributes them to uninsured residents.

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  • University of Notre Dame converts tons of dining hall leftovers into energy

    February 25, 2020 |

    National Catholic Reporter |

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    Response Location: United States, Notre Dame, Indiana

    The University of Notre Dame installed three Grind2Energy systems, which aims to reduce the amount of food waste from the campus’ dining halls. The systems process the waste and send it to a local dairy farm where they break down the material to produce biogas that is used to generate electrical power for 1,000 homes each day in Plymouth, Indiana. While not everyone at the university has committed to the sustainability efforts, these systems can be scaled to be used on other college campuses.

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