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  • Telluride isn't immune to Colorado's high country housing problem. But it's finding a solution in diversification

    March 18, 2019 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Telluride, Colorado

    While towns across the Mountain West struggle to provide affordable housing, Telluride looks to diversification of housing to build sustainable, economically beneficial houses and apartments. From tiny homes to dormitory-style apartment buildings, the city's developments leave room for singles and families alike, and easily afforded with government bonds and subsidies.

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  • Robot learns to feed folks dinner

    March 13, 2019 |

    Futurity News |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Many people across the United State cannot eat unless assisted, but this often leads to feelings of losing independence. To combat this outcome, researchers have developed a robotic assistant that can assess a plate of food and accurately deliver the items to the individual's mouth.

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  • 3 cities in the U.S. have ended chronic homelessness: Here's how they did it

    March 11, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, Abilene

    The national program Built for Zero is aiming to end veteran and chronic homelessness by using a comprehensive data set that allows for tracking of the homelessness situation day-by-day, along with a Housing First approach that emphasizes getting people into permanent housing before offering services for other issues. The work is spreading across the country, with more than 50 cities implementing some version of the same solution, although there are concerns for the privacy of people experiencing homelessness, as well as the sustainability of the solution.

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  • Med students learn empathy and skills in Detroit street care programs

    March 05, 2019 |

    Model D |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Two medical school initiatives in Detroit allow students to gain a sense of empathy while treating at-risk populations in a city known for harsh environments for homeless individuals. The programs, run through Michigan State University and Wayne State University, build trust between the medical community and people who live on the streets. This type of meaningful connection is often lacking in emergency rooms or doctors' offices.

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  • Schools help teachers with a new kind of homework: finding a place to live

    March 05, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Thoreau, New Mexico

    In Thoreau, New Mexico, many of the district's teachers live in the "teacherage," a neighborhood of modest, affordable homes set aside for the town's educators. Thoreau's model, which offers rent subsidization and a built-in community, is just one example of strategies rural and urban areas are using to combat teacher shortages and low teacher salaries.

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  • Hub and spoke approach helps battle opioid addiction in New Hampshire

    March 03, 2019 |

    The Nashua Telegraph |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashua, New Hampshire

    The hub-and-spoke model allows local partners to provide individuals with access to resources earmarked specifically for opioid addiction treatment. The system of care, which uses regional clinics and non-profits as access points to treatment, has already proven effective in Vermont. Currently, a similar program is assisting individuals suffering from opioid addiction receive the help they need through entry points at nonprofits like The Doorway office at Harbor Homes.

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  • New York Has a Public Housing Problem. Does London Have an Answer?

    March 01, 2019 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London, England

    It takes political will to create mixed-income housing and manage the social impacts of gentrification. In contrast to New York, the London borough of Hackney has taken steps to fix its housing crisis by putting the interests of residents ahead of the interests of developers. Several housing developments slated for development in the East London neighborhood now blend subsidized and market-rate units.

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  • Many Washington foster kids become homeless. Tennessee may have found a solution.

    February 28, 2019 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Memphis, Tennessee

    Washington State looks to an innovative program in Tennessee that centers around developing strong relationships between homeless youth and their case workers. The Tennessee program, which offers youth in foster care a sense of stability and family, has helped many of its participants stay off the streets; now, King County, Washington is looking to copy the program to reduce youth homelessness in the area.

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  • Cities without sewers

    February 28, 2019 |

    Rethink |

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    Response Location: Haiti, Cap-Haïtien

    A nonprofit in Haiti called SOIL with a business arm called EkoLakay is bringing back the old-fashioned idea of a container-based sanitation system. Customers rent toilets with containers in them, use them, and return them to EkoLakay to then be converted into highly nutritious compost. Piloted in 2011, the program has been successful serving more than 1,000 households (growing by 40 every month) with a staff of 58 mostly local workers. They attribute their success to using "applied resilience thinking", having many actors at different levels, and constantly adapting to new solutions and knowledge.

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  • What Denver can learn from homelessness policies in other states

    February 27, 2019 |

    KUSA-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    In Denver, residents and city officials are learning about how to better strategize to reduce chronic homelessness by following Utah's example - and learning from its failures. Utah's inability to sustain the investments in Housing First approaches that helped them to dramatically reduce the numbers of people experiencing chronically homelessness in the first place has caused those numbers to almost double, a warning to cities like Denver searching for solutions.

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