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Affordable housing efforts in Loveland have become basis for statewide model

Carla Jean Whitley

July 31, 2018 |

Glenwood Springs Post Independent |

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Response Location: United States, Loveland, Colorado

Having made a commitment to commissioning and placing hundreds of pieces of public art, a Colorado city is now also making a commitment to artists. A 30 unit apartment building has been created with the purpose of providing artists with affordable housing and not pricing them out of living downtown.

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Green Upgrade: How California Is Pioneering ‘Energy Justice'

Patricia Leigh Brown

July 30, 2018 |

Yale Environment 360 |

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Response Location: United States, California

Boasting one of the top five largest greenhouse gas cap-and-trade programs that has raised over $6.5 billion, California is leading the way in financially successful renewable energy initiatives. One of the state's more recent projects now aims to allocate a percentage of those funds to bringing renewable energy resources to lower socioeconomic communities.

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Looking for Housing or Affordable Healthcare? Your Local Library Is Here to Help

Adrienne Day

July 27, 2018 |

NationSwell |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Public libraries are hubs of information and increasingly of social support services. San Francisco Public Library was one of the first in the country to break out of the stacks to respond to local needs. Social worker Leah Esguerra has spent a decade there assisting homeless patrons. She says a public library is “a community living room where everyone is welcome.”

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'Uber For Poop' Aims To Break Up Senegal's Toilet Cartel

Robert Smith

July 27, 2018 |

NPR |

Radio |

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Response Location: Senegal, Dakar

In Senegal, emptying your septic taste is expensive business; the two options, hiring someone to shovel it onto the street or paying a high price to the "cartel of 'toilet suckers,'" are not sustainable for residents or public health. To force members of the raw sewage cartel to compete with each other and lower prices, a new call center "auctions" the service by text to individual sellers instead of forcing people to contend with a banded group, and "prices for toilet suckers have come down an average of 7 percent" since the program began.

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Tiny home village for homeless thriving in Denver's RiNo district

Joe Rubino

July 27, 2018 |

The Denver Post |

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Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

In Denver, the Beloved Community Village has been a model for a new effort in the city to use villages of tiny homes as a way to provide housing for those who would otherwise be homeless. After the community's first year of existence, the resident-governed village has proven to be an idea worth scaling.

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The Urbanist Case for Trailer Parks

Nolan Gray

July 26, 2018 |

Bloomberg CityLab |

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Response Location: United States

Manufactured housing—including trailer homes and tiny houses—is a low-cost, small-footprint way to increase affordable housing. However, strict zoning requirements and even outright bans limit its impact.

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Checking the blind spot

Blair Stenvick

July 25, 2018 |

InvestigateWest |

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Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

In Oregon, there is a law in place that helps guide public school officials in how to react to a child with a possible concussion, but that law doesn't address what to do if a child suffers a concussion during private competitions. To address this loophole, concussion experts as well as a skier that had been impacted by this blind spot, led a legal fight that eventually allowed the expansion of this law to also cover "organized youth sports that take place outside public schools."

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A New National Portrait Project Will Send 50 UK Artworks to the Cities and Towns That Gave Them Life

Sarah Cascone

July 25, 2018 |

Artnet |

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Response Location: England, London

In order to share jewels of its collection as well as place artwork in locations tied to its content, the National Portrait Gallery has initiated a new project to loan work to museums around England. The piece selected to loan is one that the artist or the sitter has a specific relationship to the museum or the place where the work will reside.

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School-going girls to be skilled in making re-usable sanitary towels

Lilian Namagembe

July 25, 2018 |

Daily Monitor |

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Response Location: Uganda, Wasiko

Kabubbu Development Project is a reproductive health NGO in Wakiso district of Uganda that is teaching middle and high school girls to make reusable sanitary pads. Lack of pads can mean the difference between going to school or not. The school found that when some young women had no money they turned to prostitution to afford hygiene products and go to school.

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A tale of two rivers

Leopold Obi

July 24, 2018 |

Nation Africa |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: Kenya

Rising populations and increasing river-side infrastructure has severely impacted the Mau Forest Complex in Kenya. Home to the Mara River which directly contributes to various community's livelihoods, protecting the waterway holds great importance for the health of the ecosystem. While some parts of the region are struggling to make this a reality, others have found success in sustainable management.

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