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  • The Urbanist Case for Trailer Parks

    July 26, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States

    Manufactured housing—including trailer homes and tiny houses—is a low-cost, small-footprint way to increase affordable housing. However, strict zoning requirements and even outright bans limit its impact.

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  • The Downsides of Property Tax Caps

    July 26, 2018 |

    Governing |

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    Response Location: United States

    Property tax caps have been found to exacerbate economic inequality. They restrict funding for basic services and push municipalities to increase sales taxes and fees instead.

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  • Baltimore's homeless veterans get their own free barber shop

    July 26, 2018 |

    The Baltimore Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Rob’s Barbershop Community Foundation is using haircuts to empower people. Specifically, at several centers for homeless veterans in the Baltimore area, new spaces for barbers allow veterans to access haircut and grooming services for free. Haircuts can also be significant in helping veterans get new jobs, and this program is even training some veterans to become professional barbers in the future.

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  • To fix its housing woes, should California look to Seattle?

    July 26, 2018 |

    CalMatters |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In response to the rapidly developing Seattle housing crisis, the city has begun to rezone single-family housing as high-rise apartment buildings and create accessible public transportation in redeveloped areas. Though this fastest-growing city in the country has a long way to go in the fight for affordable housing, the Bay Area cities can look to these rent-stabilizing solutions as possible responses to their own housing crisis.

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  • The Millennial Who Uses Comedy to Help Veterans Heal

    July 26, 2018 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    A D.C. non-profit is using storytelling, improv, and comedy to bridge the gap between veterans and civilians. A study by doctors at Western Carolina University found that the program resulted in "a significant increase in commitment, control and self-esteem, as well as decreased stress," and the Armed Services Arts Partnership can't accommodate everyone who requests to join the program.

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  • Throw the books at them: How more training for Wisconsin's prisoners could help companies

    July 26, 2018 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

    In Wisconsin, the Department of Corrections is tailoring their prison education programs to meet the needs of the job market, and it is benefitting former inmates as well as the economy. Milwaukee Area Technical College works to get inmates credentials, which helps them get jobs upon release from prison. The investment pays off. For every dollar spent educating inmates, the government saves $5 in the years after their release.

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  • Chicago Hiked the Cost of Vehicle City Sticker Violations to Boost Revenue. But It's Driven More Low-Income, Black Motorists Into Debt.

    July 26, 2018 |

    ProPublica |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    When Chicago raised the fee for not having a vehicle sticker, the move seemed like a way to raise revenue without punishing compliant drivers. But now, thanks in part to racial disparities in policing, thousands of mostly black people are going bankrupt due to ticket debt.

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  • Wastewater treatment is a problem in the rural South. Who is working to fix it?

    July 26, 2018 |

    The Montgomery Advertiser |

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    Response Location: United States, Haynesville, Alabama

    In the South's rural Black Belt, wastewater management is an issue, but local activists, government officials, and civil engineers are working together to create a new type of sanitation system that works for the geography. The approach also includes public information campaigns to educate people about proper maintenance and stop rumors that can prevent that maintenance.

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  • Indiana's free pre-K: Adored by parents, beset with growing pains

    July 26, 2018 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Indianapolis, Indiana

    Since 2014, low-income parents who enroll their children in Indiana's state grant program, On My Way Pre-K, have watched their students gain important literacy skills and self-confidence. However, only four percent of the state's qualifying four year olds currently participate in the initiative. Teachers are now brainstorming strategies to eliminate barriers to parents applying for the funding.

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  • These Dogs Are Giving Inmates a Paws-itive Path Forward

    July 26, 2018 |

    NationSwell |

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    Response Location: United States, Bedford Hills, New York

    Training inmates to raise service dogs can benefit everyone involved. Inmates gain skills and a sense of purpose, and the dogs go on to help wounded veterans and first responders. “I’ve been here for years,” says a security guard at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility where Puppies Behind Bars started. “And let me tell you, this is like no other program. It really works.”

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