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  • Where The Community Owns The Real Estate

    The Kensington Corridor Trust acquires properties along three blocks in its Philadelphia neighborhood to give the community agency and control over how that real estate is used, with an emphasis on keeping housing affordable. The trust has acquired 16 properties so far and has signed its first commercial tenant, providing space for a local business owner.

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  • Laudato Trees Planting Program Enlists Catholic Properties to Help Increase DC's Canopy

    A collaboration between tree-planting organizations in Washington D.C. helps Catholic church properties to plant and care for trees. The free trees are an effort to combat urban heat and benefit the local environment.

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  • "Not everyone needs a psychologist, but everyone should know how to help themselves and others:" Kyiv Resilience Center teaches how to cope with trauma

    The Stress Resilience Center provides critical workers — like doctors and law enforcement — opportunities to learn psychological self-help skills. The goal is to equip the public with psychological wellness skills to prevent the number of people who need to seek psychological help from getting too high. Amidst the war, the Center also provides individual and family therapy for those experiencing loss, burnout and those with loved ones in the military.

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  • Protecting children and healing families, one Native auntie at a time

    My Two Aunties assists Indigenous families to help keep children out of foster care. The group provides parenting support and education, seeks to build relationships between families and their culture and also works to repair intergenerational trauma that can lead to creating an unsafe environment for children. In 2022, the program served 97 families and held 411 parenting classes and interest in the program is continuously growing.

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  • Imagine a Renters' Utopia. It Might Look Like Vienna.

    Vienna’s public housing is affordable, full of economically diverse residents, and extremely popular. The housing units are open to almost anyone, as 80 percent of residents qualify, and once you sign a rental contract it doesn’t expire even if your income increases. Plus, the rent can only go up based on inflation if it increases by 5 percent in a year.

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  • Sacramento outperforms other major cities in affordable housing production but misses state quota

    Sacramento, California, is increasing the number of affordable housing units built in the city by implementing deed restrictions that limit prices and require occupancy by low-income residents, providing free permit-ready building plans for accessory dwelling units, and prioritizing quick approvals by the city government.

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  • The Movement to Stop Dollar Stores From Suffocating Black Communities

    Tulsa, Oklahoma, was the first city to pass an ordinance to permanently restrict new dollar stores from cropping up in underserved communities and exasperating food insecurity. The policy included incentives for businesses selling healthy food options and, with funding from a development corporation, a grocer opened in the North Tulsa community as a result.

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  • ‘Building an Industry': Medical Cannabis Investors Focus On Lab Testing For Patient Safety

    When the Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act passed in 2022 and launched a new medical-marijuana program there was an unmet need for cannabis testing. To fill the gap, testing labs like Steep Hill Mississippi are emerging to ensure the medical marijuana available is safe to use.

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  • A journey of healing

    The Native and Strong Lifeline aims to provide culturally relevant mental health care services and support to members of the Native community. Since launching, the lifeline has received over 1,200 calls from across the state, handled by its team of tribal crisis counselors, many of whom have their owned lived experiences with mental health struggles.

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  • 5 steps, fast: This plastic sheet and pouch can stop thousands of women from dying after giving birth

    To address maternal mortality, drapes with volume markings are being used to manage life-threatening bleeding after birth. The drapes collect the blood and are marked with measurements so healthcare workers can monitor blood loss and interfere and provide care before it’s too late. The drapes were tested in 78 hospitals throughout the country between August 2021 and the end of 2022 and allowed healthcare workers to interfere with excessive bleeding in time for 90% of patients.

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