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  • On a mission to save seniors from nursing home horrors

    June 10, 2022 |

    GuelphToday |

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    Response Location: Canada, Peterborough, Ontario

    After witnessing burnout and substandard conditions in long-term care facilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, personal support workers in Peterborough, Ontario established a co-op to provide home-based care directly to seniors. The worker-owned organization now has 17 caregivers who are able to spend more time learning about their patients' needs and are paid higher wages on average than in traditional care homes.

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  • Vista Nueva makes Natomas the next front in keeping people housed as Sacramento's affordability crisis intensifies

    June 02, 2022 |

    Sacramento News & Review |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    Inspired by temporary housing initiatives launched during the COVID-19 pandemic, California's Homekey program provides grant funding to help communities convert motels and hotels into permanent supportive housing for unhoused people. More than 300 units have been developed in the Sacramento area so far, with a percentage designated for specific populations, such as families with children, tenants with disabilities, and those who access additional services on-site such as mental health and substance use support.

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  • The struggle to help LGBTQ foster youth aging-out of the system with housing continues in Sacramento  

    May 25, 2022 |

    Sacramento News & Review |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    The Fostering Connections to Success Act was designed to help aged-out foster children in need of housing for up to three years. Foster children can choose whether they want to continue living with their foster parents, another guardian or transition into an apartment or college dorm. There’s a group of twelve specialized social workers who work closely with foster care youth to create Transitional Independent Living Plans, which help these aged-out youths transition into housing.

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  • Genesis Row project provides sober living for those in recovery

    May 19, 2022 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Mansfield, Ohio

    The Mansfield Urban Minority Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Outreach Program (UMADAOP) helps individuals in recovery programs access housing through its Genesis Row Project. The non-profit currently owns six houses and following some renovations, plans to house 20 people.

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  • College works to tackle growing housing insecurity among students

    May 13, 2022 |

    el Don |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Ana, California

    The Fainbarg Chase Thrive Center allocated about $20,000 in emergency grants to provide students with temporary housing in partnership with local hotels that also cover utility bills and down payments. So far, the Center has supported 13 students financially, the majority of which were in need of long-term housing support after experiencing homelessness.

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  • A Landlord ‘Underestimated' His Tenants. Now They Could Own the Building.

    May 06, 2022 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Thanks to teamwork and the help of a Housing Development Fund Corporation Co-Op apartment tenants will be able to buy their apartments for $2,500 each. This practice helps to combat rent hikes and creates generational wealth for individuals owning their apartment.

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  • Mansfield homeless pilot project plans to ask, 'What do you need?'

    April 29, 2022 |

    Richland Source |

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    Response Location: United States, Bloomington, Indiana

    A successful initiative in Indiana is asking people experiencing homelessness what they need in order to find housing and stay housed. The years-long program has provided food and shelter resources as well as permanent housing and employment.

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  • The struggle to help LGBTQ foster youth aging-out of the system

    April 28, 2022 |

    Outword Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Sacramento, California

    The Fostering Connections to Success Act helps aged-out foster children obtain housing, but it's not always easy for LGBTQ+ youth to find safe, accepting places to live. But with the newly implemented Resource Family Approval program, members of area child protective services departments and foster care representatives meet with potential foster families to evaluate how they would support LGBTQ+ youth in their home.

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  • How Cincinnati is buying homes in bulk to keep them cheap

    April 19, 2022 |

    NewsNation |

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    Response Location: United States, Cincinnati, Ohio

    The city of Cincinnati is outbidding institutional real estate investors and buying houses with the aim of mitigating rising rents and housing costs. The big investment funds are partly to blame for skyrocketing rents.

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  • Raise or retreat? Home elevation aims to protect historic houses

    April 15, 2022 |

    WAVY-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Virginia

    As waters continue to rise and flood homes at sea levels, some homeowners are spending thousands of dollars to raise their homes off the ground. This solution that has been tried in Charleston is expensive, but some people think it can also work in Virginia. One industry expert started the Home Raising Academy, a workforce development program, to train architects, engineers, realtors, and government officials on floodplain management, insurance, and financing for home elevations in the area.

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