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  • Florida Community Land Trust Makes Affordable Housing Part of Hurricane Recovery Audio icon

    Emily Nonko

    September 05, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Florida

    A community land trust is helping people in the Keys find another home, after Hurricane Irma ravished the area. “Four cottages are expected to wrap construction this fall, with another five finished by early 2019.” The arrangement was made possible after two friends got together and formed the Florida Keys Community Land Trust, secured land from the county, and raised $1 million to build affordable disaster housing.

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  • This Chef Is Fighting Gentrification With Hot Chicken Audio icon

    Deonna Anderson

    August 31, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    A chef shows the "absurdity" of gentrification with a creative fundraising campaign. At one of Tunde Wey’s pop-up dinners, he charged $12 for a plate, but charged white people $30, to spark up conversations about racial wealth inequality. His H*t Chicken Sh*t, “a dinner series to end gentrification,” successfully raised $52,000 to go towards residents of North Nashville, “a historically Black neighborhood,” and their affordable housing.

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  • America's Real Estate System Pushes Rents Up And People Out. There's Another Way.

    Jarrid Green

    August 20, 2018 |

    The Huffington Post |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    In Oakland, a community land trust helped Hasta Muerte, a local cafe, avoid eviction. All over the country, community land trusts are helping communities of color keep their affordable housing.

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  • Vienna's Affordable Housing Paradise

    Adam Forrest

    July 19, 2018 |

    The Huffington Post |

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    Response Location: Austria, Vienna

    Unlike America’s struggle to provide high-quality affordable housing in sufficient quantities, Vienna has achieved an affordable housing system worthy of envy. The government-subsidized housing projects in Vienna need to meet certain design and sustainability requirements, and a competitive design process leads to quality buildings. An estimated 62 percent of citizens in Vienna live in some form of social housing, the European name for public housing. The success of social housing in Vienna has also helped it remain “one of the most affordable major cities in the world.”

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  • Trying to Cut Crime in Public Housing by Making It More Livable

    Tina Rosenberg

    July 10, 2018 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    To make neighborhoods safer, New York City is attempting to strengthen "collective efficacy." Research shows that an engaged community, where residents feel they can trust each other and the government, can help lower crime; improving buildings, offering summer jobs, opening a community center, and providing more services are just some of the actions taker to create safer communities - and it's working.

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  • This Philly housing project helps residents double their income

    Michaela Winberg

    June 12, 2018 |

    Billy Penn |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    By offering flexible rent, a Philadelphia nonprofit allows low-income residents to attain economic success. Financed through an initial endowment, the Women’s Community Revitalization Projected is sustained by support from independent donations and Philadelphia’s low-income housing tax credits. In addition to offering affordable housing and residents’ services to Philadelphia’s low-income women and families, the WCRP also operates a community land trust to help address future development concerns in the city.

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  • Only City In California To Solve Veteran Homelessness Is On A Mission To Go Bigger

    Amita Sharma

    May 10, 2018 |

    KPBS Public Media |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Riverside, California

    Riverside is the only city in California to solve veteran homelessness. The approach, called Housing First, works by placing vets into subsidized housing and then proceeding with support services like finding employment or rehabilitating from drugs/alcohol dependence. Now that Riverside has housed all of its 89 homeless vets, it is moving on to apply the same approach to their 400 chronically homeless citizens.

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  • The Importance of Beauty in Affordable Housing

    Emily Nonko

    May 09, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Changes in zoning laws as well as the promotion of guiding principles and successful case studies has led to well designed, environmentally efficient, and beautiful supportive housing. Well-designed housing has lessened stigmas and provided residents with a sense of dignity about where they live.

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  • Tiny Houses Alone Can't Solve the Housing Crisis. But Here's What Can

    Chris Winters

    May 08, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

    Multi-Media |

    Over 3000 Words

    Response Location: United States

    Buying a house with 8 other people, tiny houses, forming a homeowners association to buy land, and community land trust’s are all different options people are taking to find alternate forms of housing that are affordable. “They’ve defined a new American Dream. They hope others will follow their model, if not by making the same choice, then by being willing to look beyond traditional boundaries.”

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  • The community trying to unite rich and poor

    Emily Kasriel

    April 26, 2018 |

    BBC |

    Broadcast TV News |

    Under 3 Minutes

    Response Location: Canada, Toronto

    The Regent Park neighborhood in Toronto is now home to a mixed income housing development project in which residents of different income groups are living alongside one another. It’s also bringing a private developer and a public housing agency to work together on the project, with the hopes of fostering a sense of community and creating a safer neighborhood.

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