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  • Some Mountain Towns are Eyeing Vancouver-style Vacancy Taxes. Could it Help Address Housing Crises?

    September 21, 2021 |

    Jackson Hole Community Radio (KHOL) |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

    Vancouver’s taxes on vacant residences have reduced the number of empty homes and apartments. The tax on empty homes was levied in an effort to ease the lack of housing, especially affordable housing. The tax has generated money for affordable housing projects in addition to encouraging property owners to rent out their residences. The success of the tax is encouraging other cities to enact similar laws.

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  • Arizona program gives low-income parents a chance at career advancement

    September 21, 2021 |

    Arizona Daily Star |

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    Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

    Single mothers in Arizona are getting access to wraparound services that give them an opportunity for social and economic mobility. The Pathways for Single Mothers provides comprehensive services that include childcare, transportation, tuition, and an emergency fund.

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  • Tribal Solar Projects Provide More Than Climate Solutions

    September 16, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, Alabama

    Indigenous groups are establishing energy sovereignty on tribal lands while simultaneously providing economic development. The transition to solar power has environmental, political, and financial benefits for indigenous communities.

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  • The great experiment—Can resident-owned mobile home parks save manufactured housing communities?

    September 16, 2021 |

    Boulder Weekly |

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    Response Location: United States, Boulder, Colorado

    Mobile home owners in Colorado are beginning to own their own communities due in part to legislation that is making it easier to do so. Resident-owned communities preserve the affordable housing stock, which manufactured home communities make up a large percentage of.

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  • Making the grade: B.C. tuition waiver program made education possible for hundreds of young people

    September 14, 2021 |

    Education Matters British Columbia |

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    Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

    The British Columbia government waives tuition at public universities for undergraduate students who grew up in foster care, a measure that takes aim at the disadvantages young people face after aging out of the child welfare system. Former foster children, who in British Columbia are disproportionately of Indigenous heritage, average lower high school graduation rates and have above-average problems with income, housing, and work after childhoods that often feature multiple moves. About 1,700 young people have received tuition-free educations since 2017.

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  • This Experiential Learning Farm Helps Youth Build a Better World

    September 09, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Columbia, Maryland

    Low-income communities of color have less access to nature, they experience "nature deprivation" at a rate three times higher than white people. Regular access to the outdoors improves respiratory health, physical fitness, cognitive functioning, and psychological well-being. The Freetown Farm was conceived as a place where all people can experience nature. Its exposing young people of all backgrounds to nature. Through its year-long internship program learned how to plant food, among other things.

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  • Eagle County problem-solving courts offer new hope to repeat offenders battling substance abuse

    September 09, 2021 |

    Vail Daily |

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    Response Location: United States, Eagle, Colorado

    Eagle County's two problem-solving courts put treatment ahead of punishment when addressing crimes committed by people with substance abuse problems. Originally set up as one court, they now function separately to address drunken driving and drugs and serve people "teetering on the edge of serious prison time" for repeat offenses. More than 90 percent of participants in 2020 maintained sobriety and more than 80 percent avoided new legal troubles. While the threat of punishment is used to win compliance with rules, prosecutors say they're more interested in permanently curing the underlying disease.

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  • Lake Mary police partnership keeps mentally ill out of ERs, away from police confrontations

    September 08, 2021 |

    WKMG-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Lake Mary, Florida

    The Mental Health Intervention Group is a partnership of hospitals and community social services agencies formed by the Lake Mary Police Department to address mental health problems before they turn into crises. Avoiding crises minimizes the chances of violent encounters with police or repeat visits to hospital emergency rooms. Volunteers and their organizations learn from police or hospitals who needs help, and then they provide whatever is needed, from counseling to food assistance. Nearly all those they've helped have avoided hospital visits afterward.

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  • As homicides surged, Oakland's premier anti-violence program went quiet

    September 07, 2021 |

    San Francisco Chronicle |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Oakland Ceasefire's "delicate architecture" balancing law enforcement and community-based responses to gun violence, which seemed to have helped lower the city's gun violence by half since 2012, came crashing down during the pandemic. While arrests continued, the alternative offered to people at high risk of violence – an array of services to turn their lives around – withered with a virtual ban on in-person meetings. Violence in the city surged as years of progress unraveled. The program is working to rebuild, while questioning if it should distance itself more from the police.

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  • University degree awarded to student behind bars: his thesis on autoethnography is a survival story

    September 07, 2021 |

    News48 |

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    Response Location: Italy, Catanzaro, Calabria

    Magna Graecia University partnered with prison administrators in Catanzaro, Italy, to help two incarcerated men find a form of rehabilitation by writing their own lives' stories. In a process called autoethnography, the men, who are serving life sentences, focus on describing without moral judgment "the psychological and creative resources they used for survival before prison and during their time behind bars." This helps them see the traits that led them into crime might also lead them out of it. Both men tell of extraordinary personal growth through the experience, which others now seek to duplicate.

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