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  • Are Oakland community ambassadors making a difference?

    September 19, 2023 |

    The Oaklandside |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    In response to public safety concerns and understaffed police departments, community ambassadors are working to improve public safety by building relationships with local business owners and residents, mitigating conflict without force or violence, providing support to people in crisis and keeping the city clean. Since community ambassadors began patrolling the area, local business owners have reported noticing fewer robberies and crime in general

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  • Detroit resident 'leads with love' in local climate resiliency

    May 25, 2023 |

    Energy News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Tammara Howard founded and runs the What About Us? community hub to serve the Detroit neighborhood she lives in. She plans community-building and educational events and distributes essential resources when problems like power outages occur.

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  • ‘Mutual aid' is a radical ideal. Some live its communal spirit.

    January 30, 2023 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Boston, Massachusetts

    Community-run mutual-aid groups in Boston are helping neighbors connect and support each other. Volunteers organize and run programs like food pantries, relief fund collections, and connections with lawyers and advocates.

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  • How These NYC Public Housing Residents Became Models for Tenant Rights Activism

    January 11, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Cooper Park Houses community is a historically Black, low-income housing complex. While the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated longstanding issues of gentrification and access to housing, the Cooper Park community has worked to advocate for themselves and their community, fighting industrialization and development that could put their homes at risk by banding together and collaborating with other local organizations.

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  • Technology and manpower collaborate to plug Johannesburg's pesky potholes

    October 20, 2022 |

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    Response Location: South Africa, Johannesburg

    The Pothole Patrol formed in May 2021 and launched an app that provides residents with a quick, centralized space for reporting any potholes they spot. Since it launched, more than 100,000 potholes have been repaired.

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  • Wheels of Hope Increases Access by Providing Rides

    April 20, 2022 |

    Grady Newsource |

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    Response Location: United States, Athens, Georgia

    Wheels of Hope provides car rides to people who can’t drive due to illness, age or disability for no more than $20. Drivers provide more than just a ride and also provide company to the passenger and help with tasks if they need it.

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  • How one Mansfield church offers friendship and support to the unhoused

    April 08, 2022 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    The City Center church campus provides services to unhoused residents or individuals who are struggling financially, including laundry, haircuts and meals, as well as a sense of compassion and community. In 2021 alone, the Center did 924 loads of laundry, provided 214 clothing appointments, 1,225 diapers and 109 free haircuts.

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  • Montreal neighbours build community, and climate resilience, through geothermal energy

    March 28, 2022 |

    Ricochet |

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    Response Location: Canada, Montreal, Quebec

    Geoexchange systems are most popular in large building projects, and in Montreal, it's becoming a potential sustainable approach for single-family homes. Neighbors teamed up with a nonprofit to install the infrastructure for a geoexchange system to heat and cool their homes. Geoexchange works by using high-temperature geothermal energy and feeding this energy to homes through pipes installed in the houses.

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  • Creating a safer 6th Street: How another U.S. city transformed its entertainment district

    November 11, 2021 |

    KXAN-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Arlington, Virginia

    Arlington police and its entertainment-district bars and restaurants addressed rising violence and other crime by collaborating to prevent crime rather than banking on police alone to solve it through more arrests. Where bar and restaurant owners in the past feared getting in trouble if they told police about incidents at their venues, the Arlington Restaurant Initiative opened communication and training of employees. Crime in the district declined by two-thirds in the first four years. Austin faces similar challenges and could learn from Arlington's example.

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  • With investors knocking, Charlotte HOAs are starting to change their rules

    October 01, 2021 |

    The Charlotte Observer |

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    Response Location: United States, Charlotte, North Carolina

    One reason the market for middle-income housing has grown tight in Charlotte is a shortage of available homes for sale because corporate investors have bought so many developments for their rental income. To preserve affordable housing and encourage healthier communities, some homeowners associations are using restrictive deed covenants to try to limit corporate owners' encroachments. In one neighborhood, it seems to have worked, but there are legal complications that must be considered as other HOAs seek to copy the tactic.

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