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  • Black Investors Take Back a Legal Tool to Restore Affordable Housing

    December 07, 2023 |

    Illinois Answers Project |

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    Response Location: United States, Chicago, Illinois

    The Community Receiver Program works with real estate professionals of color to rehabilitate vacant and foreclosed properties. These properties are then resold to local homebuyers — to preserve generational wealth — or rented out at affordable rates. The program trains people to be community receivers for free, teaching them how to acquire and rehabilitate the buildings, as well as how to leverage grants and local funding programs. Since 2020, the Program has trained about 520 people, rehabilitated 16 buildings and contributed about $4.5 million in restored property value.

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  • With law enforcement sparse, Alaska villages build network of safety for survivors

    November 29, 2023 |

    Alaska Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Emmonak, Alaska

    Amidst a lack of law enforcement in remote areas, the Emmonak Women’s Shelter has begun training people in small villages to become victim resource advocates to connect those who have experienced domestic violence or sexual assault with shelter and care.

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  • The case for collective disaster preparedness

    November 16, 2023 |

    Hothouse 2.0 |

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    Response Location: United States

    Neighbors around the country are forming grassroots community groups to prepare for, and respond to, extreme weather and disasters. These groups organize aid and supplies, participate in reconstruction, and help others find shelter amidst the storms.

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  • South Dallas leaders help make GoLink successful, will DART make it permanent?

    November 09, 2023 |

    Dallas Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

    South Dallas’s GoLink pilot program allows residents to book door-to-door transportation within a designated zone at much lower rates than traditional rideshare programs like Uber. The neighborhood now has the third-highest ridership in the metro area and sees roughly 220 riders per day.

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  • Kauai became a clean energy leader. Its secret? A publicly owned grid

    November 07, 2023 |

    Canary Media |

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    Response Location: United States, Hawaii

    In an effort to lower electric rates and move toward more renewable energy, Kauai residents raised funds to acquire and turn the area’s for-profit utility company into a locally owned cooperative, the Kauai Island Utility Cooperative (KIUC). When it was formed in 2008, KIUC pledged to reach 50% renewable electricity by 2023, and last year it was already generating 60% of its energy from renewables like solar power.

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  • As Renters Revolt, Tenant Unions are On the Rise

    October 26, 2023 |

    Time Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    KC Tenants is a tenant union that connects renters to put pressure on landlords and local government to protect tenant rights. With the help of the group’s political arm, KC Tenants Power, they have blocked thousands of evictions, received millions of dollars in funding to secure affordable housing for those in need and have grown to about 10,000 members. Outside of blocking evictions and securing long-term affordable housing, the group also has four members who won City Council seats.

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  • What will it take for Arizona's gay bars to stop overdoses?

    October 24, 2023 |

    LOOKOUT Phx |

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    Response Location: United States, Phoenix, Arizona

    In an effort to combat overdoses in the LGBTQ+ community, some local spaces — like gay bars — are carrying Narcan. While not every gay bar in the area is on board with carrying Narcan, there are several individuals and local organizations working to push these venues to make a change and helping to ensure people who need it can access the potentially life-saving drug if they need it.

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  • Matching programs help up-and-coming Thurston County farmers get their footing. Here's how

    October 23, 2023 |

    The Olympian |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    In Washington, the Thurston Conservation District’s South Sound FarmLink program helps farmers connect with locals who are willing to lease their land for agricultural use. This is especially helpful for farmers who are just starting their careers and can’t afford to buy land.

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  • How a California Child Care Workers' Union Fought for Living Wages — and Won

    October 13, 2023 |

    KQED |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    By organizing on nights and weekends through their union, Child Care Providers United, home-based child care providers in California were able to secure a landmark contract creating the country’s first retirement fund for unionized child care workers.

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  • Kentucky Activists Step In to Deliver on the Promise of Voting Rights Restoration

    October 12, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Kentucky

    After Kentucky reinstated voting rights for people convicted of nonviolent crimes who have finished their sentence, a coalition of activists and nonprofit organizations started using public records, social media, door-to-door canvassing, and other outreach methods to inform formerly incarcerated people of their rights. The effort has helped register more than 89,000 people since 2019, though advocates say the state itself could be doing much more to reach newly-enfranchised voters.

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