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  • Beyond the picket fence: How one city is creating more affordable housing

    February 03, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    In Minneapolis, a long-term affordable housing plan takes a comprehensive approach by addressing climate change, zoning, and equity as inherent in the modern housing crisis. By reducing single-family housing, cutting building costs with green technology, and asking neighbors to be a part of the decision-making process, the city is chiseling away at its affordable housing crisis.

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  • The Old Asylum Is Gone: Today A Mental Health System Serves All

    February 03, 2020 |

    Health Affairs |

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    Response Location: Italy, Trieste

    In Trieste, Italy, accessing mental health care resources is made easier by an approach that allows for people to seek assistance without the fear of being punished. In most cases throughout the region, mental health centers act as first responders and treatment facilities are open-door with very few instances of coercive treatment initiated. While individuals report that this model of care is successful, another element of success includes the employment rate of patients.

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  • Would you drop your children 800m from school to make them walk?

    January 28, 2020 |

    ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |

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    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Australia, Hamilton, Victoria

    Faced with an obesity epidemic, communities in Australia are making changes to become healthier and promote a healthy lifestyle. Programs have included increased education around grocery shopping with a nutritional mindset as well as increasing exercise through initiatives that encourage children to walk to school. Since making changes, individuals in the communities have attested to the effectiveness and obesity and overweight rates in some regions have notably decreased.

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  • A Group of Mothers, a Vacant Home, and a Win for Fair Housing

    January 28, 2020 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Moms 4 Housing, a collective of women and their children, occupied a vacant 3-bedroom house in Oakland to secure housing for themselves and call attention to the Bay Area’s lack of affordable housing. Despite being removed and arrested by heavily armed deputies, the movement grew and the developer has agreed to sell the house to Oakland’s Community Land Trust at market value and offer the right of first refusal on other properties. The group also urged state senator Scott Weiner to introduce amendments to a bill currently under consideration that would protect affordable housing from developers.

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  • Weaponizing Truth Against Opioids

    January 28, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington, District of Columbia

    Ad campaigns that provide personal testimonials, relatable narratives, and captivating images succeed in stemming epidemics of addiction among teenagers. The Truth Initiative’s anti-smoking campaign has helped to dramatically reduce teenage smoking during recent decades by creating ads that targeted teens with compelling messages. Now, the Truth Initiative is including anti-opioid messaging in its campaign.

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  • Big Impact with a Small Footprint

    January 24, 2020 |

    QNotes Carolinas |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    The Beloved Community Village, a tiny-home community in Denver, Colorado, serves as an example of a successful housing model for people in insecure housing situations. The community takes a shared living approach and requires residents to participate in community events without violence, drugs, or other harmful behaviors. Now, Charlotte officials look to the Beloved Community Village as an example that can help as they work to combat homelessness in their own community.

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  • There's a nationwide shortage of poll workers. Cities are relying on teens for help

    January 23, 2020 |

    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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    Response Location: United States

    Many cities are turning to 16- and 17-year-olds to address poll worker shortages. Election officials say the students are also more tech savvy, racially and ethnically diverse, and enthusiastic. 400 students in Minneapolis, which has the highest turnout in midterm elections, made up 16% of all poll workers and were at 131 of its 132 polling places. Milwaukee has had less success recruiting students. In 2016, the last year they reported this data, students made up just 1% of poll workers. Structural barriers caused by high poverty rates and much lower compensation than other cities likely limit success.

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  • How 17 Outsize Portraits Rattled a Small Southern Town

    January 21, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Newnan, Georgia

    The small Southern city of Newnan, GA considered themselves to be a fairly open and accepting place. This attitude was shattered when 17 huge portraits of ordinary people who make up Newnan were hung across the city and prompted a racially-tinged backlash. The purpose of the portraits was to open up a dialogue around the diversity in the city, but it also exposed new and hidden racial tensions. The portraits were ultimately allowed to stay up, but the conversations surrounding the issue are ongoing.

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  • Meet ‘Firefighter' in Middle of New York Hospital's War Against Gun Violence

    January 21, 2020 |

    Juvenile Justice Information Exchange |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Guns Down Life Up intervenes immediately after incidents of gun violence to prevent retaliation, but then goes further to counsel at-risk youth and to provide victim counseling to help families in the wake of violence. Part of a growing movement of hospital-based violence intervention, the group’s “credible messengers” work in Harlem and South Bronx hospitals to interrupt the cycles of violence that often result in repeat victimization, which anecdotally at least it can show has worked. Then its counseling gives youth safe activities off the streets and teaches better conflict mediation tactics.

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  • Students in the U.S. and Iraq Discover Common Ground

    January 20, 2020 |

    Al-Fanar Media |

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    Response Location: Iraq, Mosul

    A program that was inspired by rising racial tensions is helping students from Pennsylvania State University and the University of Mosul in Iraq erase misconceptions about each other’s cultures. Participants of the “World in Conversation Program,” gather for virtual conversations and talk about their issues, concerns, and daily life. The program is helping them dismantle stereotypes they might have of Arabs and Americans. “I want to show them who we really are, beyond the stereotypes in the media.”

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