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  • Tackling Rural America's 'Hidden' Housing Crisis

    March 15, 2023 |

    The Daily Yonder |

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    Response Location: United States, Roseburg, Oregon

    Organizations like the Gary Leif Navigation Center are providing housing services and support to those in need. The Gary Leif Navigation Center opened in the summer of 2022 and is a low-barrier shelter that provides 10 pods for individuals to sleep and store their belongings in. Due to increased need, plans are currently underway to expand the Center, adding an additional 30 beds.

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  • Making transitional housing Halal in Texas

    March 14, 2023 |

    Scalawag |

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    Response Location: United States, Houston, Texas

    Transitional housing centers like Huma-Faith and Halal House provide accommodations for formerly incarcerated people, specifically Muslim men. These houses are safe spaces that provide necessary resources like a shower and a warm bed, as well as work opportunities, group talk sessions, and regular drug and alcohol screening to help people put their best selves forward. These houses are also Muslim-centric, meaning people can rebuild their lives while freely practicing their religion.

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  • Saving Black homes lost to tax inequity

    March 02, 2023 |

    The Emancipator |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Tax Sale Benevolence Program reaches out to owners of properties in Cook County, Illinois, with tax debt to help them pay it off and connect them to helpful resources so they do not lose their homes.

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  • Solar for all? U.S. cities take green power to low-income homes

    March 01, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Community solar projects like the Oxon Run Community Solar Farm in Washington D.C. give lower-income communities a chance to reduce energy bills while helping the city meet climate goals. These solar farms are typically set up on vacant lots and the electricity is directed to specific users through the grid instead of used onsite.

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  • South Siders Organizing To Help New Migrant Neighbors At School-Turned-Shelter: 'Woodlawn Is A Welcoming Community'

    February 27, 2023 |

    Block Club Chicago |

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    Response Location: United States, Woodlawn, Illinois

    A closed school was converted into a shelter for some of the nearly 200 migrants arriving in Chicago. In tandem, local residents and faith-based groups started the Chicago 4 All initiative to help provide them with the necessary resources to settle in.

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  • A Wyoming group moves homes to save affordable housing and preserve history

    February 26, 2023 |

    Casper Star-Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Wyoming

    Shacks on Racks relocates houses and works to make homeownership more accessible to area workers. Since starting in 2016, the non-profit has relocated 21 houses. For those 21 saved houses, Shacks on Racks estimates they’ve spared landfills more than 1.2 million pounds of waste.

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  • A tested solution for helping teens who are homeless, or living on the brink

    February 07, 2023 |

    The Salt Lake Tribune |

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    Response Location: United States, Salt Lake City, Utah

    Teen centers are spaces in high schools that provide youth with a place to call home if they’re experiencing housing insecurity. They also provide access to resources like food, clothes and counseling services. Several area high schools have opened their own teen centers, equipped with showers, washing machines, dryers, study rooms and trusted adults they can confide in who help them when they’re in crisis or seeking guidance.

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  • A Gillette social service organization is helping and giving hope to the homeless

    February 03, 2023 |

    Wyoming Public Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Gillette, Wyoming

    The Day of Hope is an annual event hosted by the Council of Community Services that is intended to connect the local homeless population with social service agencies, from housing assistance to credit repair, to help them get back on their feet. CCS is the only homeless shelter in northeast Wyoming and has seen a dramatic increase in those seeking help in the past three to four years.

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  • Avivo Village shines as solution for unsheltered homelessness in Minneapolis

    February 01, 2023 |

    MPR News |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Avivo Village provides shelter for those experiencing homelessness and assists them in securing their own permanent housing. Avivo Village is specifically for people experiencing unsheltered homelessness and offers a safer option than staying in encampments. As of December, Avivo Village helped 119 secure housing and every time a person moves out, the Village moves in someone else from an encampment.

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  • At On-Campus Retirement Communities, Seniors and 'Seniors' Forge Deep Bonds

    January 26, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Tempe, Arizona

    University-based retirement communities help to foster intergenerational connections between younger and older generations. Some of these facilities are simply developments near colleges, while others are physically on-campus. Along with building connections, these programs help fight feelings of loneliness among the older population and break down stigmas young people may hold about the elderly.

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