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  • The world's first 3D-printed neighborhood now has its first houses

    December 11, 2019 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: Mexico, Tenosique, Tabasco

    3D-printed homes offer a solution to affordable housing in remote and underserved areas. New Story, nonprofit in San Francisco that specializes in 3D printed homes, recently expanded its work to Tabasco, Mexico. After using 3D printers to help communities in El Salvador, Bolivia, and Haiti rebuild after natural disasters, the nonprofit has brought its model to create an affordable neighborhood in rural Mexico. Partnering with Icon, the developers of a 3D printer, and a local nonprofit, Echale a Tu Casa, the initiative has created its first homes for residents.

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  • Seattle program makes homes affordable in a pricey market. Is it a model for Charlotte?

    December 10, 2019 |

    The Charlotte Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The Homestead Community Land Trust offers affordable home ownership in Seattle and the rest of King County, Washington, ensuring that there is always permanently affordable homes available. This opens up homeowner opportunities for those who have historically been excluded and serves as a stem in the tide of gentrification. This article includes personal testimony from people who live in the housing, and already the program has reduced buyers' costs by 30%.

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  • 13 grocery stores: The Navajo Nation is a food desert

    December 10, 2019 |

    Planet Forward |

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    Response Location: United States, Navajo Nation

    A produce prescription program is one of several approaches that people living in Navajo Nation are taking to combat the harms of living in a food desert. Although this program has only been implemented on a small scale so far, 15 health care clinics are participating and 1,700 Navajo people have used to program to access fresh produce with many reporting positive health impacts.

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  • The US city giving away free money

    December 09, 2019 |

    BBC |

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    Response Location: United States, Stockton, California

    The city of Stockton, California is providing several low-income residents with $500 per month to pilot the effects of a "Universal Basic Income." So far, pilot participants report feeling less stressed about money, have been able to pay off small amounts of debt, and can afford extra groceries with the additional monthly income.

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  • Can CA Reduce Homelessness Through Better Prevention?

    December 06, 2019 |

    Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    In California, concerns due to ever-increasing numbers of people experiencing homelessness is prompting state and city leaders to emulate strategies from New York and Chicago. Many of those strategies, like call centers, emphasize preventing homelessness in the first place by focusing on vulnerable individuals and families and linking them to emergency aid to help them avoid evictions.

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  • Rejected Produce Rescued To Feed Hungry

    December 05, 2019 |

    New Haven Independent |

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    Response Location: United States, Hamden, Connecticut

    To reduce food waste, a pilot project in Connecticut organized by a professor aims to deliver the still-viable thrown-out products to a local food pantry. With the help of her students, the project has successfully helped to consistently divert perfectly edible produce to "people who don’t care whether an onion isn’t in season or if an avocado is too soft."

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  • Dirt floors can kill you. This graduate might have a solution.

    December 05, 2019 |

    National Geographic |

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    Response Location: Rwanda

    Stanford University graduate Gayatri Datar founded a nonprofit called EarthEnable that aims to rid the world of dirt floors. EarthEnable sells an earthen floor covered with an environmentally friendly varnish at a cost less than a concrete floor. To date the organization has installed more than 4,400 floors, and customers and the Rwandan government love them.

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  • America trashes 40% of its food. A Colorado startup is connecting the discards to dinner tables.

    November 26, 2019 |

    The Colorado Sun |

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    Response Location: United States, Colorado Springs, Colorado

    Finding alternatives for uneaten or imperfect food reduces waste. In Denver, multiple initiatives, ranging from the city’s Certifiably Green Denver program to tech startups and nonprofits, are working to tackle the problem of excess and wasted food. The nonprofit organization, We Don’t Waste, redistributes unused food from large venues at food banks and farmers markets. The tech startup, FoodMaven, similarly aims to reroute food from the landfill to consumers.

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  • Houston, we have a solution: How the city curbed homelessness

    November 18, 2019 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Across the country, governments at every level are working to tackle homelessness. In Houston, connecting permanent housing to services has proven an effective strategy but it has required an increase in affordable housing stock and more strategic organization between non-profits and officials.

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  • More Seattleites are housing homeless people in their backyards, but it's hard to find the right fit

    November 18, 2019 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In Seattle, the BLOCK project started two years ago to build houses for those experiencing homelessness in backyards. While the project has slow-going - with only 9 matches between families and an unhoused person completed - that's in part because the non-profit is incredibly deliberate about its process in recognition of some controversy the idea has recieved.

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