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19 July 2018
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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800-1500 Words
In response to a decline in city services, local Detroiters have begun providing for neighbors out of a sense of goodwill. Detroiters Helping Each Other distributes donated items, ranging from school supplies to beds ...
Urbanet
Laura von Puttkamer
21 June 2018
Mexico City, Mexico
Text
800-1500 Words
By participating in the decision-making process, Mexico City residents successfully convinced the government to build a public park instead of an office development. The Parque Imán is 2.4 hectares, includes 163 trees...
Yes! Magazine
Adam Lynch
15 June 2018
Jackson, Mississippi, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In Jackson, Mississippi, a series of community-led cooperatives are creating opportunities for affordable home ownership. This is part of a trend across the country to create community land trusts. They are financed t...
University of Oregon
Bryana Sena
7 June 2018
Eugene, Oregon, United States
Video
3-5 Minutes
Composting reduces the waste that fill landfills, but it's not always a common practice. Food For Lane County and Compost Crew are two operations in Oregon that are working to change this through local control operati...
The Philadelphia Citizen
Mark Dent
21 May 2018
Oakland, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Oakland, California is showing big cities that transit-oriented development is possible. After a decade of planning between public transportation officials, developers, and a neighborhood organization, the Fruitvale T...
7 May 2018
London, England
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
A team of London artists revitalized a town by turning an old World War II bomb site into a community garden. They joined forces with locals, who saw the garden as an opportunity to protect the space from being develo...
NMPolitics.net
Heath Haussaman
10 April 2018
Kingston, New Mexico, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Without much support from local governments, unincorporated towns turn to personal connections to sustain themselves. In the towns of Kingston and Hillsboro, in southern New Mexico, residents cherish their social netw...
2 March 2018
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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800-1500 Words
In Fairhill, a neighborhood in North Philadelphia, voter turnout was a mere 12% in one recent election. Fairhill Neighbors, a coalition of neighborhood groups, is seeking to combat lower turnout rates with a personal...
14 February 2018
Liverpool, United Kingdom
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1500-3000 Words
Eleanor Lee is one of many women leading the charge to restore the Granby neighborhood in Liverpool. The few households that remained inhabited after the neighborhood was forgotten came together and formed a community...
11 February 2018
Belgrade, Montana, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Belgrade, Montana, a city 12 miles outside of Bozeman, uses creative financing and revitalization to ensure its identity remains independent from its rapidly growing and ever-popular adjacent city. While many resident...
6 February 2018
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
The diverse Frogtown neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota is filled with immigrants from all over the world. However, warning signs of gentrification are hinting at rising home prices that threaten the affordability of...
24 January 2018
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Text
Under 800 Words
Time-banking is a way of trading goods and skills using labor hours rather than cash. The system connects neighbors to fulfill each other’s needs, everything from bike repairs to cooking and cleaning. More than 2,000 ...
10 January 2018
Boulder, Montana, United States
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800-1500 Words
Boulder, Montana struggled upon learning that a major local employer, the Montana Developmental Center, was going to close. However, the news pushed the town toward a path of redevelopment. The Boulder Transition Advi...
10 January 2018
Boulder, Montana, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Affordable housing often needs several solutions to make sufficient impact in a community. In Boulder, Montana, several groups and funding sources are working together to keep a diverse stock of affordable housing ava...
9 January 2018
San Agustín, Ecatepec, Mexico
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Abandoned buildings hold great potential. In Ecatepec, friends got together and transformed an empty commercial space into El Banco, a bustling hub of arts and recreation activities open all day for local kids and fam...
Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB)
Allison Frost
Andrew Dorn
18 December 2017
Portland, Oregon, United States
Multi-Media
Over 15 Minutes
Providing people with safety and stability can help to break the poverty cycle. In the Kenton neighborhood of Portland, Oregon, the Kenton Women’s Village provides shelter and support for homeless women. The community...
11 December 2017
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Block clubs act as a more approachable way for residents of a certain area to come together, “and they’re also one of the most essential.” In several neighborhood of Detroit, block clubs have made impactful local chan...
The Philadelphia Citizen
Jill Harkins
4 December 2017
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
In Detroit, Michigan, residents reduce the effects of gentrification through physical activity and shared storytelling. The non-profit Pedal to Porch encourages residents to bike to their neighbors’ homes and record t...
11 October 2017
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Broadcast TV News
5-15 Minutes
Urban areas that have more trees tend to have lower crime rates, attracting more investment and have higher income levels. They also make neighborhoods nicer places to live so that’s why Blacks in Green, a community g...
Next City
Scott Atkinson
10 August 2017
Flint, Michigan, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Instead of relying on Flint’s municipal government for basic services that it does not have the money for, residents are “picking up the slack” by joining block clubs. These community groups maintain parks, mow lawns,...
25 July 2017
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Kansas City neighborhood of Ivanhoe was once plagued by blight, illegal dumping, drug trade, gun violence, and neglect; neighbors lived in fear or moved away. Inspired by one compassionate and proactive family, th...
7 June 2017
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
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800-1500 Words
After taking a year off, the Lafayette Farmers Market in Colorado is back in action and piloting a new type of incentive program that is based on guaranteed-minimum sales for participating farmers. A first of its kind...
7 June 2017
Malmö, Sweden
Text
Over 3000 Words
The Seved district of Malmö, Sweden used to be one of the roughest in the nation, with drug crime and gang violence making the neighborhood uninhabitable for many and preventing basic services, such as the post, from ...
CityLab
Andrew Zaleski
2 June 2017
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Dorchester, the Boston neighborhood with the highest poverty levels, struggles to keep kids in school from engaging with gangs and crime. But College Bound Dorchester (CBD) is fast rewriting the solution to high drop ...
Citiscope
Connor MacDonald
30 March 2017
Yangon, Yangon Region, Myanmar
Text
1500-3000 Words
Years of misrule and a subsequent dearth of hard currency, along with crippling bank-fostered debt cycles and exorbitant home mortgage interest rates, have created immense suffering for Myanmar's poor. But with the gu...
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