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  • What can Philadelphia learn from Cleveland's water department?

    May 04, 2022 |

    The Land |

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    Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

    Cleveland’s water affordability initiative has provided relief to qualified homeowners in the city. The Homestead Water program alleviates debt and locks in reduced water utility rates. The program also has a streamlined application process, which has led to higher enrollment rates.

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  • What can Cleveland learn from Philadelphia's ambitious experiment in water billing?

    May 02, 2022 |

    The Land |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia’s Tiered Assistance Program (TAP) provides water debt alleviation and locks water bill rates to 2-3 percent of a household’s income. The program provides a unique security net to qualified homeowners in the city. Cleveland has the potential to provide a similar benefit to its residents with a few manageable changes.

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  • A tale of two cities' water bills: how one place was able to reduce mounting utility costs for low-income households and how Ohio may follow suit

    May 02, 2022 |

    Eye On Ohio |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia’s Tiered Assistance Program (TAP) provides water debt alleviation and locks water bill rates to 2-3 percent of a household’s income. The program provides a unique security net to qualified homeowners in the city. Cleveland has the potential to provide a similar benefit to its residents with a few manageable changes.

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  • LADWP Training Program Provides Power — and Good Jobs — to the People

    April 29, 2022 |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    The Utility Pre-Craft Trainee program provides a pathway to upward mobility within the Los Angeles Department of Water and power. The program provides training and experience for skilled jobs and enables participants to achieve economic mobility. 

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  • Mansfield homeless pilot project plans to ask, 'What do you need?'

    April 29, 2022 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Bloomington, Indiana

    A successful initiative in Indiana is asking people experiencing homelessness what they need in order to find housing and stay housed. The years-long program has provided food and shelter resources as well as permanent housing and employment.

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  • The struggle to help LGBTQ foster youth aging-out of the system

    April 28, 2022 |

    Outword Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    The Fostering Connections to Success Act helps aged-out foster children obtain housing, but it's not always easy for LGBTQ+ youth to find safe, accepting places to live. But with the newly implemented Resource Family Approval program, members of area child protective services departments and foster care representatives meet with potential foster families to evaluate how they would support LGBTQ+ youth in their home.

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  • More Public Defense Spending

    April 28, 2022 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    The Defender Association of Philadelphia practices community-oriented public defense — also known as "holistic defense" — to connect clients with support services and resources that help address the root causes of crimes. The association works with social workers, investigators, and paralegals to get clients access to housing, food, jobs, and healthcare, as well as mental health and substance use treatment, with more than 150 people referred to treatment providers between September 2016 and January 2017.

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  • Salem looks to solution-based housing for those experiencing homelessness

    April 26, 2022 |

    KGW-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Salem, Oregon

    Micro-shelters with on-site case managers give people experiencing homelessness a stable place to live while connecting them to medical care and job opportunities.

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  • Zimbabwe's women-only rangers fight poachers and poverty

    April 25, 2022 |

    Thomson Reuters Foundation |

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    Response Location: Zimbabwe

    Akashinga Unit, a woman-only rangers group, gives women in Zimbabwe the opportunity to earn a good salary and feel empowered while preventing poaching.

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  • Public Libraries Are Making It Easy to Check Out Seeds—and Plant a Garden

    April 25, 2022 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Jefferson, Georgia

    More and more public libraries around the United States are creating seed libraries as a way to encourage gardening, combat hunger insecurity, and build community resilience. For example, the Jefferson Public Library in Georgia has seen the number of people using the seed library grow to more than 300 in 2021. It can be a lot of work to maintain the seed libraries, but some librarians see it as a way to engage the community.

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