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  • Barcelona Finds a Way to Control Its Airbnb Market

    June 06, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: Spain, Barcelona

    Swamped by short-term vacation rentals, Barcelona pushed Airbnb to share data with government officials and help ensure that only licensed properties are listed on the site. The agreement offers a model for how other cities can respond to the same problem.

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  • How Denmark lost its MindLab: the inside story

    June 05, 2018 |

    Apolitical |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Denmark

    Denmark’s MindLab pushed experimentation and innovation in government for more than 16 years, inspiring imitators around the world. Now shut down, the innovation lab fell victim to a swift shift in political priorities, say former directors. Digital transformation of the civil service is now the focus.

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  • Chester Artists Revitalizing Corridor on Their Own Terms

    June 05, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Chester, Pennsylvania

    Investment from large foundations can often compromise an organization's vision or tie an organization up in debt. In working with major funders, organizers in Chester, Pennsylvania were careful to select funders that shared their vision and established relationships that would eliminate the need for funders rather than create long-term dependency.

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  • Day Zero: how Cape Town stopped the taps running dry

    June 05, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

    Documentary |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: South Africa, Cape Town

    To avoid running out of water, Cape Town authorities enacted severe restrictions on water usage, rationing water to 50 liters per person per day. The restrictions have caused wealthier families, in particular, to rethink their relationship to water and adopt many of the practices that people living in the outskirt townships have always had to do.

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  • A Growing Drive to Get Homelessness to Zero

    June 05, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Rockford, Illinois

    Across the United States, communities are coordinating data and strategies to achieve a "functional zero" for homelessness. By creating complex and dynamic systems that utilize detailed data collection, communication between agencies, and personal relationships with those being served, many communities have made clear reductions in their homeless population.

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  • India slashes heatwave death toll with series of low-cost measures

    June 02, 2018 |

    The Guardian |

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    Response Location: India, New Delhi

    Extreme heat waves in India that have previously caused thousands of deaths every year are being combatted with simple public health initiatives. These impactful actions include opening up the gates to city parks so that street workers are able to seek shade, and training medical personnel to recognize early signs of heat stroke and transport patients to designated cool rooms.

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  • ‘The Police Aren't Just Getting You In Trouble. They Actually Care.'

    June 02, 2018 |

    Politico |

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    Response Location: United States, Gloucester, Massachusetts

    Police departments across eastern Massachusetts frustrated by the rising opioid epidemic decided to make themselves avenues to treatment rather than instruments of punishment. “It was pretty evident that we weren’t arresting our way out of anything.” The idea evolved into a national program called the Police-Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative with nearly 400 police departments helping thousands of people access drug treatment services across the country.

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  • Leave No Worker Behind

    June 01, 2018 |

    Earth Island |

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    Response Location: United States, Jackson, Mississippi

    A decades-old principle called “just transition” has made international headway in the fight against climate change and toward equity and sustainability. Fundamental to the principle is transitioning from a capitalist system to a localized one that prioritizes cultural inclusion, local economies, decarbonization and environmental justice, and food sovereignty. But as this idea reaches prominence on the global stage, those that have been involved for years worry that its core meanings, morals, and actions will be co-opted.

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  • A Blueprint for Human-Centered Change

    June 01, 2018 |

    Government Technology |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    In Michigan, private design firm Civilla successfully pitched a human-centered redesign of the state's unwieldy and redundant public benefits form. By highlighting and emphasizing the experience that applicants had with the old firm, Civilla convinced the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services to make a change, and the new form is now 22% more likely to be completed.

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  • Can ‘Tennessee Promise' of free tuition offer lessons for Seattle and Washington?

    June 01, 2018 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan looks to Tennessee's initiative that offers free community college education for every high-school graduate in the state. Only one year after Tennessee became the first state to offer such assistance, the college enrollment rate by five percent.

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