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

Adam Mahoney

January 11, 2023 |

Capital B (National) |

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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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Tucson House staff, partners help young residents prepare for school

Caitlin Schmidt

November 21, 2022 |

Arizona Daily Star |

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Response Location: United States, Tucson, Arizona

Tucson C.A.R.E.S., through the public housing community Tucson House, provides resources and services like pop-up pet vaccine clinics, food assistance, eviction prevention and connections to physical and mental health care, to residents in need. Tucson C.A.R.E.S. referred about 700 residents to various service providers in its first year.

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Occupy to survive: Brazilians squat to fight for housing rights

Mia Alberti

July 29, 2022 |

Al Jazeera |

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Response Location: Brazil, São Paulo

Housing activists have been living in an abandoned building — Prestes Maia — since 2002. Through their years of activism, occupying the space and working to make the 22-story high-rise livable Prestes Maia is being transformed into social housing for the families that have been living there for the past several years.

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

Casey Rafter

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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Genesis Row project provides sober living for those in recovery

Katie Ellington Serrao

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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Cracking the housing puzzle: What Victoria could learn from other cities

Emily Fagan

December 15, 2021 |

Capital Daily |

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Response Location: Germany, Berlin

Increasing public housing units has helped alleviate the strain on housing supply in Berlin and Vienna where corporate-owned developments were bought out by the government. Housing advocates in Canada are calling for similar measures, in additional rent control and community land trusts.

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The seeds to build permanent farmworker housing are planted. Will there be a harvest?

Pam Marino

October 29, 2021 |

Monterey County Weekly |

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Response Location: United States, Soledad, California

A research study is spurring change and leading to the addition of more housing units in Soledad. Agriculture is the main industry of the region, making farmworker housing a priority. Vacant housing has been rehabilitated and several new developments have been built to house both year-round and migrant workers.

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An unprecedented state program is already fulfilling its promise to house the most vulnerable

Pam Marino

October 01, 2021 |

Monterey County Weekly |

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Response Location: United States, Salinas, California

Over 120 hotels and motels have been converted into affordable housing developments in California, housing 8,260 people who were previously experiencing homelessness. Known as Homekey, the state-funded program was initially meant to quickly house vulnerable populations in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Funding for the next two years has already been approved for what advocates are calling “Homekey 2.0.”

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Paris shows how to make public housing greener and more habitable at the same time

Colin Kinniburgh

September 29, 2021 |

Grist |

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Response Location: France, Paris

Old and neglected housing contributes to climate change because it runs on fossil fuels. In New York, outdated heating systems waste two-thirds of energy. The New York City Housing Authority is not only trying to create better, safer, livable affordable housing, but also cleaner and more sustainable housing. While the city is just beginning to explore how to do that, other cities, like Paris, have already begun the work of updating old buildings that are used for affordable housing and can offer a model for American cities.

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Crossroads Community Services partners with churches, public housing facilities and neighborhood centers to combat food insecurity

Michelle Aslam

May 18, 2021 |

Dallas Morning News |

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Response Location: United States, Dallas, Texas

The Cities of Refuge church, in collaboration with other food banks like Crossroads Community Services, helps provide those in need with access to healthy food and groceries. The Crossroads’ community distribution partner model involves over 100 community partners that serve almost 32,000 people across Dallas and neighboring counties.

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