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For Healthy Aging, a Late Act in the Footlights

Tina Rosenberg

August 15, 2012 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Burbank, California

Through the Burbank Senior Artists Colony - a community created by EngAGE - low-income seniors learn how to become artists. The recreational classes hosted by the community keep people feeling phsyically and mentally young, allowing them to focus on recreation instead of financial hardship.

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Beyond Refugee Camps, a Better Way

Tina Rosenberg

September 06, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Kenya, Dadaab, Garissa

Refugee camps save lives in emergencies – but often refugees languish there for decades. Two columns on programs that allow refugees to live normally in cities, with an ATM card taking the place of a camp.

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For Refugees, the Price of Dignity

Tina Rosenberg

September 01, 2011 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: Kenya, Dadaab, Garissa

American humanitarian aid and programs by the United Nations have proved beneficial to equip Middle Eastern refugees with resources for self-settlement outside of camps. The self-settlement model has empowered refugees to become more productive members of society when they return home.

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The Street-Level Solution

David Bornstein

December 24, 2010 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

Many of the errors in our homelessness policies have stemmed from the conception that the homeless are a homogeneous group. It’s only in the past 15 years that organizations like Common Ground, and others, have taken a more granular, street-level view of the problem — disaggregating the “episodically homeless” from the “chronically homeless” in order to understand their needs at an individual level.

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When Lenders Won't Listen

David Bornstein

December 10, 2010 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Ohio

In part, miscommunication between bankers, brokers and homeowners created the 2008 economic crisis. Protection laws mandating better labeling and trusted third-party intermediaries could improve communication and help prevent another crisis.

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Foreclosure Is Not an Option

David Bornstein

December 06, 2010 |

The New York Times |

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Response Location: United States, Cleveland, Ohio

Foreclosure affects millions of homeowners and millions more owe more on their mortgages than what their homes are worth, but Empowering and Strengthening Ohio’s People (ESOP), offers assistance. As a free service to borrowers, ESOP holds lenders accountable with fair lending agreements, creates constructive communication, and ultimately saves homes.

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The City's Cost of a Life Redeemed

Kevin Fagan Brent Ward

October 29, 2006 |

San Francisco Chronicle |

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Response Location: United States, San Francisco, California

Making the transition from the street to permanent housing can be difficult - it's hard to force people to seek help. San Francisco works to help the homeless rise from the poverty cycle by pinpointing the most chronically homeless people on the street and urge them into services.

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Special Report: Abandoning our mentally ill

Meg Kissinger

March 19, 2006 |

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel |

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Response Location: United States, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

With the promise of community care, psychiatric wards were unlocked 30 years ago. Today, the sickest patients live in squalor.

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Success in the Big Apple: New York City finds path for mentally ill / Housing homeless before treatment bucks conventional wisdom

Kevin Fagan

June 14, 2004 |

SFGate |

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Response Location: United States, New York, New York

In San Francisco, 23 percent of homeless people return to the street after transitional housing programs. A New York program gives the mentally ill and homeless individual apartments alongside average New Yorkers and has had an 84 percent retention rate.

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