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To save affordable housing, states promote resident-owned mobile home parks

Kevin Hardy

October 30, 2024 |

Stateline |

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Response Location: United States

Residents of mobile home communities are coming together to collectively buy the land their houses are on and establish cooperatives. It ensures their rent stays affordable long term, and some state governments are making it easier to do so to help address housing affordability crises.

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This Caribbean nation is preparing for the ravages of climate change by selling citizenship

Chico Harlan Carolyn Van Houten

October 04, 2024 |

The Washington Post |

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Response Location: Dominica

Dominica is funding its climate change adaptation and resilience projects, like building storm-resilient housing, by selling citizenship to people who want a Dominica passport to travel in the West with less restriction.

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FEMA Is Going Door-to-Door to Help Vermont Flood Victims

Hannah Feuer

September 25, 2024 |

Seven Days |

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Response Location: United States, Vermont

Federal Emergency Management Agency employees are knocking on doors across Vermont to demystify the financial assistance process and help people impacted by flooding apply.

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All Aboard the Electric School Bus!

Hannah Wallace

September 16, 2024 |

Reasons to be Cheerful |

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Response Location: United States

The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean School Bus Program is funding zero-emission, electric school buses and low-emission buses for schools looking to make the switch from diesel.

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These American Climate Corps Workers Are Paving a Green Future

Yessenia Funes

August 15, 2024 |

Atmos |

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Response Location: United States, California

Over 300 SolarCorps fellows in the inaugural class of the United States Climate Corps, a workforce-training program, are engaging with communities and installing solar panels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Fellows work with different organizations across several states, such as the nonprofit GRID Alternatives, which is focused on bringing no-cost solar installations to underserved communities.

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After historic floods, the safety net failed small farmers

Sarah Trent

August 01, 2024 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, California

Two-thirds of California’s farms are considered small, cultivating less than 50 acres, and they play a critical role in food security and climate resilience for the whole country. As climate change makes extreme weather more unpredictable, these farms have to rely on government disaster relief and crop insurance to get back on their feet.

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Funds to Help Low-Income Families With Summer Electric Bills Are Stretched Thin

Martha Pskowski Jenaye Johnson

July 19, 2024 |

Inside Climate News |

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Response Location: United States

The government-funded Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program is meant to help households across the United States keep afford the cost of heating in the winter and air conditioning in the summer.

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Can New York City Treat Its Food Scraps As More Than Trash?

Doug Bierend

July 15, 2024 |

Civil Eats |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

New York City’s Compost Project supports a network of community compost operations to reduce the waste sent to landfills. Each composter operates differently based on local conditions and needs. BK Rot, for example, employs local Black and Brown youth to collect organic scraps from homes and businesses and sells its compost.

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Here's What $200 Billion in Covid Money Did for Students

Matt Barnum Rosie Ettenheim

June 26, 2024 |

Wall Street Journal |

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Response Location: United States

As COVID relief funding gets ready to end, studies show the funding has helped schools — particularly high-poverty schools — provide extra support to students to ensure they didn't fall behind, especially when it comes to math test scores.

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An experiment doled out money to homeless people in Denver, no strings attached. Here's what happened.

Jennifer Brown

June 19, 2024 |

The Colorado Sun |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

The Denver Basic Income Project provided people experiencing homelessness with no-strings-attached monthly stipends that they could spend however they’d like. At the end of the pilot, twice as many participants were in stable housing, more of them were working full time, and the nights that participants spent in shelters decreased by half.

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