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  • Creating Affordable Homes for Multigenerational Living

    June 18, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Irvine, California

    A new, more-affordable housing option is available for multi-generational families hoping to live together. To combat the “missing middle,” or the dilemma when a family makes too much money for low-income housing but not enough for a sufficient home, Urban Pacific Group is building homes to fill that market gap. The solution is helping families stay together and lead more affordable lifestyles.

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  • After Centuries of Housing Racism, a Southern City Gets Innovative

    June 15, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    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 through donations, other community businesses, or commissions. Though each land trust faces hurdles, they are collectively allowing more access to wealth and ownership in historically low-income neighborhoods.

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  • A look at how Ohio's land banks are battling blight

    June 15, 2018 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    Ohio has more than 50 land banks, which are best known for reducing blight by demolishing old buildings, but several land banks are trying creative ways to enhance their land on a budget. Successful projects include a program for locals to redevelop old lots, a pop-up art gallery in a condemned house, and urban forests to make communities more welcoming. The collective effect of these projects is to revitalize cities all across the state.

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  • A Motel Gets a Noble Second Life on Route 66

    June 14, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    A new trend is transforming old motels into new affordable housing units. NewLife Homes, a real estate group, first turned the Sundowner motel in Albuquerque into apartment units reserved for low-income people, formerly homeless people, or people with special needs. This trend has spread to California, and many of these residential buildings have added supportive staff and community engagement efforts, as well.

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  • This Philly housing project helps residents double their income

    June 12, 2018 |

    Billy Penn |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    By offering flexible rent, a Philadelphia nonprofit allows low-income residents to attain economic success. Financed through an initial endowment, the Women’s Community Revitalization Projected is sustained by support from independent donations and Philadelphia’s low-income housing tax credits. In addition to offering affordable housing and residents’ services to Philadelphia’s low-income women and families, the WCRP also operates a community land trust to help address future development concerns in the city.

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  • A Venice couple is housing homeless people, one small building at a time

    June 08, 2018 |

    Los Angeles Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    SHARE, or Self-Help and Recovery Exchange, is a nonprofit organization that “places extremely low-income people into market-rate housing by matching renters two to a bedroom.” The model depends on renters being able to pay and requires renters to attend weekly self-help sessions. The homes are rented out by local investors who are interested in helping homeless people while still turning a small profit via their investment. Currently, SHARE houses 400 tenants throughout Los Angeles.

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  • Golden girls: how beauty therapy boosts self-esteem in care homes

    June 07, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom

    A good pampering can feel fantastic. Beauty and wellness experiences such as pedicures and massages are particularly special for women and men in care homes, lifting moods and helping individuals express themselves. “It’s rewarding, humbling, a privilege,” Back to Beauty founder Sarah Rigden says. “They come in a little bit stressed and a little bit anxious, and they go out with a smile on their face.”

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  • Why Japan is paying single mothers to move to the countryside

    June 06, 2018 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    Response Location: Japan, Hamada

    Small towns in Japan like Hamada are recruiting single mothers in an effort to boost their declining population, and care of their aging one. They recruit single mothers by offering them jobs at the local nursing homes, paying them while they get trained, covering their moving costs, part of their rent, and a offering them a used car.

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  • For Survivors Of Domestic Abuse In Papua New Guinea, Volunteers Offer Safe Havens

    June 06, 2018 |

    NPR |

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    Response Location: Papua New Guinea

    Volunteer advocates in Papua New Guinea are trained by the United Nations to be human rights defenders and are crucial links for women facing abuse to help them navigate through legal proceedings to get protection. In a country where many officials are bribed and women have few resources to get help, the defenders are usually their only route to escape. It's dangerous work but when it works by coordinating many sectors it's effective.

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  • Domestic violence: Police failed to ask 11 questions that might have saved Anako Lumumba

    June 06, 2018 |

    Burlington Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Burlington, Vermont

    Lethality assessments have proven effective at avoiding domestic violence homicides and such a tool might have saved a Vermont woman who was murdered. The 11 questions help victims understand the danger they are in and also help law enforcement connect them with services. But officers in many counties in Vermont are either not using the tool or not doing it systematically even though an advocacy organization has pushed for its implementation and even when police chiefs embrace its use.

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