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14 December 2020
Houston, Texas, United States
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Over 3000 Words
Houston's effort to significantly decrease homelessness was successful due to the overhaul of its previous system which was disjointed, had too many services gaps, and often duplicated services. The new system provide...
22 October 2020
Singapore
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1500-3000 Words
Singapore's Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP) has prevented ethnic enclaves in the city-state through the use of quotas. The four recognized ethnicities cannot surpass the set quotas in public residential buildings, whi...
The Boston Globe
Jasmine Nicole Olivier
2 October 2020
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Under 800 Words
Over the four decades that a major Boston public housing development was run by a tenant management corporation (TMC), residents' safety and relations with police improved in ways that serve as lessons today as gun vi...
11 September 2020
Johannesburg, South Africa
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800-1500 Words
The South African government has provided free apartments to millions of people since the end of apartheid, in part as a way to address structural inequalities rooted in apartheid. The program has been a lifeline for ...
Law at the Margins
Joseph Young
Robert Warren
30 August 2020
Washington D.C., United States
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Over 3000 Words
Washington D.C. has decreased the number of people experiencing homelessness through the implementation of its permanent supportive housing programs. The 'housing first' initiatives prioritize providing permanent hous...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
James E. Causey
7 August 2020
Milwaukee, Minnesota, United States
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Over 3000 Words
The Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity provides a comprehensive approach to providing affordable housing in seven counties across Minneapolis and St.Paul. The large area it serves allows families to move into either urb...
15 July 2020
Athens, Greece
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800-1500 Words
Athens's distinctive apartment buildings, known as polikatoikia, have unintentionally solved problems most cities grapple with. The housing complexes have given rise to a city that has socio-economic integration, dece...
8 July 2020
Singapore
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1500-3000 Words
Affordable housing in Singapore has resulted in one of the highest rates of home ownership in the world. In 1964 the government embraced a "Home Ownership for the People Scheme" in which it gave lower and middle-incom...
19 May 2020
New York, New York, United States
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800-1500 Words
In New York City, where the average census response rate is only 49 percent, the city's largest co-operative housing complex achieved over a 70 percent response rate, well above the 40 percent rate typical in the co-o...
6 May 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Chinatown Community Development Center (CCDC), a San Francisco nonprofit, is helping those living in single-room occupancy (SRO) or public housing access food safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. The CCDC has part...
7 April 2020
Houston, Texas, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
The Houston Community Land Trust (CLT) is a nonprofit that sells affordable homes in Houston to help resist gentrification. They keep it affordable by only selling the houses on top of the land and not the land itself...
23 March 2020
United Kingdom
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1500-3000 Words
Rising rents are being addressed through a variety of interventions in cities around the world. While rent control has worked in some cities, it has been a lesson of what does not work for others. Policies to keep ren...
Next City
Gregory Scruggs
24 January 2020
Seattle, Washington, United States
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1500-3000 Words
In 2018, a per-employee tax levied on Amazon and other Seattle businesses making over $20 million a year was struck down by council members with unfavorable polling. In 2020, that same referendum is being brought back...
San Francisco Public Press
Laura Wenus
20 December 2019
San Francisco, California, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
Affordable housing in San Francisco is becoming more and more unattainable. When the landlord tried to change its status to not be rent-controlled to not, a group of residents at said building banded together with a n...
13 November 2019
Rwanda
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800-1500 Words
Rwanda is taking a controversial approach to tackling poverty within its borders—literally moving people from rural areas into model villages. On one hand, it alleviates the first markers of poverty: having a roof ove...
CityLab
Lizabeth Cohen
21 October 2019
New York, New York, United States
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Over 3000 Words
A plan forged in New York City suburbs in the 1970s addressed urban renewal and income inequality by creating low-income housing dwellings in nine separate towns outside of the city. Though the "Fair Share" program fa...
25 September 2019
United States
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1500-3000 Words
The Housing First model proposes finding homes for the unhoused without requiring employment, stability, or sobriety in order to qualify. Getting people off the street first and then helping them stay there through va...
20 September 2019
Woodlawn, Alabama, United States
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1500-3000 Words
Eighteen "purpose built communities" across America have revitalized neighborhoods through a comprehensive approach that includes building mixed-income housing, providing better educational opportunities and offering ...
8 September 2019
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A program run by the Cambridge Housing Authority that provides wraparound support to students in eighth grade through sophomore year of college has helped two-thirds of program alumni move out of the city's public hou...
16 July 2019
Norwich, United Kingdom
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800-1500 Words
A neighborhood of 100 homes in Norwich offers a solution to the affordable housing crisis through no-frills public housing. The homes, part of a social housing project funded by the Norwich City Council, meet modern e...
18 March 2019
Telluride, Colorado, United States
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1500-3000 Words
While towns across the Mountain West struggle to provide affordable housing, Telluride looks to diversification of housing to build sustainable, economically beneficial houses and apartments. From tiny homes to dormit...
The New York Times
Michael Kimmelman
1 March 2019
London, England, United Kingdom
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800-1500 Words
It takes political will to create mixed-income housing and manage the social impacts of gentrification. In contrast to New York, the London borough of Hackney has taken steps to fix its housing crisis by putting the i...
27 February 2019
London, United Kingdom
Text
800-1500 Words
Modified shipping containers can offer a solution for housing shortages. In London, QED Properties and ISO Spaces partnered together to create The Hope Gardens, a temporary housing arrangement for Londoners facing hom...
19 February 2019
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Columbus, Ohio aims to make housing more affordable by enacting he Central Ohio Community Land Trust; the community land trust uses ideas from other national affordable financing models to ensure low-income Columbus r...
Thomson Reuters Foundation
Gregory Scruggs
21 January 2019
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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800-1500 Words
A community land trust in North Carolina uses a "shared equity" model to help minority and low income people obtain access to affordable housing. The trust owns the land underneath the house, therefore holding onto th...
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