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Homeless Camp Sweeps Can Harm Health. Here's a New Way.

Ryan Levi

November 24, 2025 |

MindSite News |

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Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

Several California cities have adopted a new approach to clearing homeless encampments that prioritizes housing over displacement, called Inside Safe. The model involves spending 6-8 weeks getting to know each encampment resident individually, matching them with appropriate housing, moving people gradually and minimizing police involvement. Los Angeles's Inside Safe program has moved 5,200 people indoors over three years, with approximately 25% securing permanent housing.

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With Hunger on the Rise, Urban Gleaners Seek to Strengthen Local Food Security

Elena Valeriote

November 18, 2025 |

Civil Eats |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States

Gleaning organizations across the U.S. collect surplus food from farms, grocery stores, and markets that would otherwise go to waste, then distribute it through free-food markets and food banks to address both food insecurity and environmental harm in their communities.

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Diabetes care on wheels brings help to people who need it most

Stephanie Dubois, Brian Goldman

November 01, 2025 |

CBC |

Multi-Media |

Over 15 Minutes

Response Location: Canada, Calgary, Alberta

A mobile diabetes clinic in Calgary brings comprehensive healthcare directly to people experiencing homelessness or low income at community health centers. The team provides services including foot care, retinal scans, blood and urine screening with immediate results, dietary counseling, and connections to housing and mental health programs. The "one-stop-shop" model eliminates the need for patients to travel to multiple appointments, ensuring they get the care they need.

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Stability or speculation: What community land trusts teach us about affordable housing

Sam Woods

October 30, 2025 |

WUWM |

Radio |

3-5 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Community land trusts help preserve affordable homeownership across generations by separating land and home ownership. With Milwaukee’s trust, the trust owns the land, and residents own their homes at a capped 1.25% annual appreciation. This helps keep housing prices stable while still allowing residents to build wealth. Research shows community land trusts nationwide achieve 95%+ foreclosure prevention rates.

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Ventura County is turning former farmland into affordable housing for farmworkers

Erin Rode

October 20, 2025 |

High Country News |

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Response Location: United States, Ventura, California

The 2016 exemption to Ventura County's strict farmland protection laws has enabled the development of nearly 700 affordable housing units for farmworkers. These rent-controlled apartments on former agricultural land provide stable housing regardless of immigration status.

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Small farmers are more squeezed than ever. A California grant program offers a lifeline.

Frida Garza

October 03, 2025 |

Grist |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, California

California's farm-to-school grant program, launched in 2021, has successfully directed 100% of its funding to small and disadvantaged farmers. This has helped them expand their businesses through investments like refrigerated vans and partnerships with food hubs, enabling fresh local produce delivery to schools across the state.

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« Ici, je suis moins tentée par les cochonneries de tête de gondole » : dans cette épicerie, on peut être au RSA et manger bien

Morgane Bertrand

September 08, 2025 |

Le Nouvel Obs |

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Response Location: France, Villeneuve-d'Ascq

Aux épiceries éphémères installés par l’association Vers un Réseau d’Achat en Commun (Vrac), les résidents des quartiers populaires peuvent accéder à des aliments biologiques de haute qualité à prix réduit. Il y a 124 de ces épiceries dans toute la France et plus de 10 000 foyers adhérents.

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"One City" to Cut Poverty

Courtney DuChene

September 05, 2025 |

The Philadelphia Citizen |

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Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building helps coordinate anti-poverty programs between different departments and offers a wide range of job services, such as career counseling, vocational programs, work-based learning initiatives, and adult education courses. The office is the cornerstone of the city’s efforts to drastically reduce its rate of poverty, which has decreased by roughly 10 percent over the past 13 years.

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Puerto Ricans are devising the food system of tomorrow

Ayurella Horn-Muller

September 03, 2025 |

Grist |

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Response Location: United States, Puerto Rico

Communities in Puerto Rico developed locally-run resilience hubs that combine community kitchens, food stockpiling, and disaster preparedness infrastructure, successfully serving thousands of meals during events like Hurricane Fiona and providing year-round food security while reducing dependence on delayed government aid.

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An Old Timber Town's "Freedom Church of the Poor"

Betsy Froiland

August 29, 2025 |

The Daily Yonder |

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Response Location: United States, Grays Harbor County, Washington

Chaplains on the Harbor, also known as the Freedom Church of the Poor, supports area residents experiencing poverty and homelessness through a resource center, a farm, outreach in prisons and encampments, and support with pursuing political advocacy. The organization helped community members to file a lawsuit against the city alleging a local ordinance made it difficult for outreach workers to access encampments, which ended with the city allocating funding for a sanctioned camping area.

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