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  • How Upzoning in Cambridge Broke the YIMBY Mold

    March 03, 2025 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Cambridge’s new zoning reform lessens housing restrictions by allowing property owners and developers to build six-story apartments — through a process called upzoning — to accommodate more residents on a single lot in areas that were previously restricted to single-family homes. The city previously aimed to build 350 new units by 2040, but with the new zoning reform, that estimate has grown to 4,880.

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  • Kansas sought homelessness success stories. It stumbled on a cautionary tale, too.

    February 26, 2025 |

    The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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    Response Location: United States, New Jersey

    Community Solutions provides support and data analysis for municipalities trying to reach “functional zero,” when it becomes rare for a specific population, such as veterans or people who are chronically unhoused, to fall into homelessness. The milestone has been achieved by several communities, including Rockford, Illinois, and Abilene, Texas, but some, such as Bergen County, New Jersey, have struggled to maintain the standard long-term.

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  • Successful rural county health program could go statewide—if politics don't get in the way

    February 06, 2025 |

    North Carolina Health News |

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    Response Location: United States, North Carolina

    The Healthy Opportunities pilot program uses Medicaid dollars to address non-medical needs like food access, transportation and housing. Since launching in 2022, the program has assisted nearly 30,000 people in 33 of the state’s 100 counties. Research shows the state is spending about $85 less in medical costs per month for each participant, and lawmakers are currently weighing whether to expand the program.

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  • Early results suggest communities stop logging during basic income pilot project

    January 27, 2025 |

    Mongabay |

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    Response Location: Amazon, Peru

    After two seasons, an unconditional cash-transfer pilot project for Indigenous peoples in Peru’s Amazon has resulted in a positive impact on families who, in the past, would turn to unsustainable or illegal forest activities as a response to economic stress and food insecurity. According to the pilot's latest internal assessment, three communities are no longer engaging in illegal forest activities to make ends meet.

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  • These Cities Are Welcoming Immigrants With Municipal ID Programs

    January 21, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Municipal ID programs such as IDNYC provide identification for residents who aren't able to access official government IDs, such as those who are undocumented or unhoused. The municipally-issued IDs make it easier for these residents to access local services and benefits and interact with officials, including law enforcement.

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  • The City That Wiped Out $100 Million in Medical Debt

    January 08, 2025 |

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    Response Location: United States, St. Paul, Minnesota

    The city government of St. Paul, Minn. partnered with Undue Medical Debt, a nonprofit organization that buys up and forgives personal medical debt. Leveraging pandemic relief funds, the city was able to forgive more than $100 million in medical debt through the partnership.

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  • How One City Cut Its Poverty Rate By More Than a Third

    December 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    Richmond’s Office of Community Wealth Building acts as a hub for connecting the city’s many anti-poverty programs and organizations, with partnerships that holistically tackle everything from job training and guaranteed income initiatives to community health programs. Since 2014, the city’s poverty rate has dropped from nearly 27 percent to 17.1 percent.

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  • Farmers Markets Can Be a Form of Climate Action. Here's How

    December 19, 2024 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Farmers markets, supported by federal, state, and private food assistance programs, are helping to bridge gaps left by disparate food access by offering a direct distribution model.

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  • Beneath Branko's Bridge

    December 18, 2024 |

    Transitions Online |

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    Response Location: Serbia, Belgrade

    The Drumodom program meets people experiencing homelessness where they are with a mobile doctor’s office as well as a retrofitted bus that offers showers, hygiene products, and hair cuts given by volunteers. The service is often clients’ only means of receiving medical care, and more than 1,200 people benefited from such care in the first nine months of 2024.

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  • 'One of the hardest days since the hurricane:' Asheville church needs more for rent relief

    December 13, 2024 |

    Citizen-Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Asheville, North Carolina

    The Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Asheville, North Carolina, is providing rent assistance, including same-day eviction protection, for people impacted by Hurricane Helene.

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