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  • A San Francisco Program Helps Older People Manage Their Hoarding Behavior – and Stay Housed

    February 13, 2024 |

    MindSite News |

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    Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

    Organizations like Legal Assistance to the Elderly, Adult Protective Services, and the Mental Health Association of San Francisco help the elderly who exhibit hoarding behaviors by hosting interventions and connecting them with support groups. The groups also host clean-outs to help those with hoarding behaviors avoid eviction.

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  • Can Baby Bonds Deliver on Promise to Close Rhode Island's Wealth Gap?

    February 10, 2024 |

    Rhode Island Current |

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    Response Location: United States, Connecticut

    Connecticut and several other East Coast states are implementing baby bond programs to help children in low-income families generate wealth. The programs create trust funds for babies born into families on public health insurance that are managed by the state until they turn 18.

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  • Reclaiming Our Homes

    February 09, 2024 |

    Latino USA |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Moms for Housing reclaim vacant homes owned by investors to provide a place for single mothers to live. Advocating for housing as a human right, 13 organizers are currently living in these unoccupied houses and through civil disobedience, managed to negotiate temporary housing as they continue fighting for permanent solutions to the area’s housing crisis.

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  • 'A solution that nobody even imagined': The Village as a model for housing and mental health and addictions support

    February 09, 2024 |

    The Discourse |

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    Response Location: Canada, Duncan, British Columbia

    A site full of tiny homes called The Village provides stable, transitional housing for people experiencing homelessness in Duncan, British Columbia. The organizations that run the site provide residents with addiction recovery support and necessities like food while creating a welcoming, culturally safe community.

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  • Comox Valley Farmers' Market coupon needs have 'skyrocketed'

    February 07, 2024 |

    The Discourse |

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    Response Location: Canada, Comox Valley, British Columbia

    The BC Farmer’s Market Nutrition Coupon Program in British Columbia, Canada, provides lower-income families and seniors with coupons to purchase food at farmer’s markets. The program improves food security by ensuring more people have access to fresh, healthy food and supporting local farmers.

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  • Black Mayors Visit Innovative Temporary Housing Complex in LA

    February 05, 2024 |

    Inland Valley News |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Hilda L. Solis Care First Village provides temporary housing and support services for people experiencing homelessness in Los Angeles with the goal of transitioning them into permanent housing. Residents get a private room with a TV and a shower and share other facilities like kitchens and laundry rooms.

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  • New Hampshire Teens Provide Weekend Snacks and Meals to Hungry Peers

    February 01, 2024 |

    The 74 |

    Multi-Media |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Manchester, New Hampshire

    Fueled by Kids provides food for students who rely on school lunches to ensure they have food to eat during the weekends. Fueled by Kids curates bags of food that are easy for the students to prepare themselves and offers them at more than 20 schools, serving more than 1,000 students.

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  • Hot? Hungry? Step inside these food forests.

    January 29, 2024 |

    Grist |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Organizations in cities across the United States, including Philadelphia and Tucson, are simultaneously combatting urban heat and hunger by planting fruit trees and edible plants that provide shade and food that community members can harvest.

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  • How An Englewood Artist And Activist Is Helping Black Families Keep Their Homes

    January 25, 2024 |

    Block Club Chicago |

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    Response Location: United States, Englewood, Illinois

    unBlocked Englewood, in collaboration with the Chicago Bungalow Association, works to help Black people own and keep their longtime homes in their families by addressing the racist practices that prevent Black home ownership and helping provide funds to cover costly home repairs.

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  • Money clubs help displaced Nigerians create their own safety nets

    January 23, 2024 |

    The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN) |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Abuja

    Women at displacement camps in Nigeria are using a traditional method of saving and loaning money called Adashe to provide each other with financial support. The women in the Adashe group pool their extra money into a collective fund and split it between group members on a monthly rotation.

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