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  • How One City Tried to Solve Gridlock for Us All

    December 07, 2023 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Colombia, Bogotá

    Rapid bus system TransMilenio offers locals an extensive bus network of 12 bus lines covering 71 miles. While rapid buses aren’t as fast as a metro, and TransMilenio’s design has its share of issues, this system managed to get up and running in a fraction of the time a metro system takes, and at a significantly lower cost. TransMilenio is crucial in connecting those in underserved districts to the heart of the city and serves about two million riders each day.

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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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  • Cooperative Ways to Weather the Silver Tsunami

    December 07, 2023 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Worker cooperatives, which are worker-owned and democratically operated, are spreading across the United States as a response to the large number of baby-boomer-owned businesses closing with no succession plan. Baltimore’s Common Ground Cafe is an example of staff, the community, and a local cooperative incubator coming together to do just that.

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  • A free community library wants to reduce child street hawking and social vices in Ajegunle

    December 04, 2023 |

    Ikeja Record |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ajegunle, Lagos

    The Transforming Lives and Communities Initiative converted an office space into a free library and resource center for local youth during the pandemic, providing them with internet access, books, games and other educational materials, including a Reading Clinic to teach local youth how to read. The Initiative continued and expanded from what started as a small venture with less than 10 participants, to over 1,000 registered users.

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  • Inside the fight to add gender-affirming care to university health insurance plans

    November 30, 2023 |

    Xtra |

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    Response Location: Canada, British Columbia

    Insurance provider GreenShield, in collaboration with university insurance broker Studentcare, provides lifetime coverage of up to $10,000 for gender-affirming care procedures not covered by provincial health insurance. This insurance benefit provides care to more than 200,000 university students across 20 participating schools in the country.

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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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  • LeadSafe Detroit helps protect kids from lead poisoning

    November 29, 2023 |

    Planet Detroit |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    The Detroit LeadSafe Housing program targets households in zip codes with high numbers of homes built prior to 1978, before Congress banned lead paint in residential settings. The program has renovated 112 units since forming in 2016 and has since branched out to collaborate with Urban Neighborhood Initiatives to eliminate language barriers by reaching those in majority-Latino neighborhoods.

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  • The Beacon Prison Books Project Provides Free Books to Those Behind Bars

    November 29, 2023 |

    The River |

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    Response Location: United States, Beacon, New York

    The Beacon Prison Books Project provides free books to incarcerated people through a group of volunteers who take book requests, order the books and then display them in participating bookstores for patrons to purchase as sponsored gifts for those in prison. The program has expanded to several bookstores in the state and has sent over 3,000 books to incarcerated people since February 2020.

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  • A Carnegie Hall Concert Series Designed for Mental Health

    November 28, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    The iconic New York City theater Carnegie Hall recently premiered a Well-Being Concerts series designed to maximize the health benefits concert attendees receive, such as reduced loneliness, anxiety, and stress. At these events, the audience is encouraged to get to know one another while they sit on floor cushions on the same level as the performers.

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  • Not your grandma's granny flat: How San Diego hacked state housing law to build ADU 'apartment buildings'

    November 28, 2023 |

    CalMatters |

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    Response Location: United States, San Diego, California

    The City’s ADU bonus program offers landlords a one-for-one deal if they agree to construct an accessory dwelling unit (ADU) that is affordable, specifically for those under certain income requirements, then they are automatically permitted to build a second “bonus” unit on the property and set the rent at whatever price they’d like. This law has created an influx of affordable housing, as landlords are permitted to have up to five units on one property.

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