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Inside One of Oakland's 'Tuff Shed' Homeless Communities

Brian Watt Erika Kelly

June 28, 2018 |

KQED |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

Twenty Tuff Sheds form a safe community for homeless individuals in Oakland, California. As an alternative to a tent encampment, this “cabin community” provides social services and temporary shelter for people hoping to transition out of homelessness. The solution has helped 57 people so far, and it is showing members of the cabin community that people care about their well-being.

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‘We'll be safe': How one family found a home with help from Seattle's Popsicle Place

Erika Schultz

June 25, 2018 |

The Seattle Times |

Photojournalism |

800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

Popsicle Palace, an organization that serves the Seattle area, provides housing for families with chronically ill children who are experiencing homelessness. The program designs rooms for children with compromised immune systems and also helps to transition families to single-family housing and out of homelessness.

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Helping Nigerians move from the slums to affordable green homes of their own

Justice Ilevbare

June 16, 2018 |

The Hindu |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: Nigeria, Port Harcourt

Comprehensive Design Services (CDS) is a Nigeria-based company that uses traditional Nigerian architectural techniques and Bio-Climatic Design to build housing that is both affordable and green. This approach, which they hope to expand to the rest of Sub-Saharan Africa, is making a dent in the growing population relegated to slums and poor housing conditions in the face of rapid urbanization.

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High Schoolers Bring Their Love of Culinary Arts to Feed Local Homeless

Deonna Anderson

June 15, 2018 |

Yes! Magazine |

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Under 800 Words

Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

In Portland, Oregon, high schoolers are taking a program that donates food from their culinary classes to the homeless and turning it into a Homeless Solutions Incubator to provide a more systemic solution for homelessness in the area. With grant funding from local non-profits and support from schools, they hope the program continues to grow and spread.

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A Venice couple is housing homeless people, one small building at a time

Doug Smith

June 08, 2018 |

Los Angeles Times |

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800-1500 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

SHARE, or Self-Help and Recovery Exchange, is a nonprofit organization that “places extremely low-income people into market-rate housing by matching renters two to a bedroom.” The model depends on renters being able to pay and requires renters to attend weekly self-help sessions. The homes are rented out by local investors who are interested in helping homeless people while still turning a small profit via their investment. Currently, SHARE houses 400 tenants throughout Los Angeles.

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A Growing Drive to Get Homelessness to Zero

David Bornstein

June 05, 2018 |

The New York Times |

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1500-3000 Words

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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Living Homeless in California: Dignity Is a Hot Shower

Dean Kuipers

May 31, 2018 |

Capital & Main |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

While Los Angeles works to build permanent housing for the homeless community, trailers have popped up around the city offering free showers and restrooms to homeless folks in LA County. The showers offer a sense of dignity as well as a gateway to longer-term resources, like substance abuse support.

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Kalamazoo schools create “shelter in a storm” for students experiencing homelessness

Cynthia Canty

May 29, 2018 |

Michigan Radio |

Radio |

5-15 Minutes

Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

To help its homeless students succeed, Michigan's Kalamazoo school district is using a comprehensive set of services meant to help homeless students achieve academically. Some of those services include free transportation to all magnet schools, partnerships with local community organizations to provide food banks, and mentoring programs for financially disadvantaged youth.

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Can Portable Schools in India Keep Kids Off the Streets?

Puja Changoiwala

May 24, 2018 |

Pacific Standard |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: India, Mumbai

A Mumbai school located in a remodeled shipping container meets kids on the street where they are at. Signal School results from a collaborative effort between the city and a non-profit, and focuses on bringing education to migrant children, so that they are less likely to be forced into child labor or street begging. Signal School does more than just teach, it also provides meals, works with families to change the cultural perspective that education is an amenity for the privileged, and helps migrant families find permanent housing.

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They Make Gourmet Products and Pull Women Out of Poverty. Meet the Women's Bean Project.

Jennifer Oldham

May 22, 2018 |

Slate |

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1500-3000 Words

Response Location: United States, Denver

The Women's Bean Project is a successful social enterprise that helps women experiencing poverty - for whatever reason - to gain the skills necessary to retain jobs through classes and experience on an assembly line. Approximately 93% of program graduates have retained a job after a year, an impressive statistic for most social enterprises.

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