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  • What If Finding Affordable Housing Worked More Like Matchmaking?

    Brilliant Corners helps vulnerable, low-income individuals secure housing by working with other local organizations, including the Flexible Housing Subsidy Poll, which helps match people with suitable housing options. Brilliant Corners has helped about 13,000 people get into permanent housing and can cover over $10 million in rent subsidies every month.

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  • How Mill Creek mobile home residents bought the land under their feet

    ROC USA helps residents of manufactured home communities form co-ops to purchase the property their homes are built on, giving residents more stability and control over where they live. The organization has helped create 312 manufactured home communities in 21 states since 2008.

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  • Why Boston's wealthy Back Bay said yes, in our backyard

    When plans for a new private hotel fell through, community organizations and developers like Pine Street Inn took over the 140 Clarendon building to provide permanent, supportive housing solutions for people experiencing homelessness. Pine Street Inn now owns and operates more than 440 permanent supportive housing locations, providing a home for about 900 people in the Greater Boston area.

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  • Reclaiming Our Homes

    Moms for Housing reclaim vacant homes owned by investors to provide a place for single mothers to live. Advocating for housing as a human right, 13 organizers are currently living in these unoccupied houses and through civil disobedience, managed to negotiate temporary housing as they continue fighting for permanent solutions to the area’s housing crisis.

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  • This German village is embracing integration

    The Heberthausen Asylum Support Group helps incoming migrants and refugees find housing, jobs and learn the German language to integrate with society and work towards citizenship.

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  • How An Englewood Artist And Activist Is Helping Black Families Keep Their Homes

    unBlocked Englewood, in collaboration with the Chicago Bungalow Association, works to help Black people own and keep their longtime homes in their families by addressing the racist practices that prevent Black home ownership and helping provide funds to cover costly home repairs.

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  • After the Crisis: Unique Program Helps Older Adults Grappling with Both Addiction and Mental Illness

    Rypins House is a residential treatment home for older adults run by the Progress Foundation that provides access to safe housing, mental health and addiction recovery care. Progress Foundation serves dual-diagnosis patients — those with both a mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorder — and takes a social rehabilitation and harm-reduction approach to care, encouraging residents to take ownership of their recovery.

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  • An overlooked climate solution unfolds in Memphis' energy challenges

    Memphis Gas Light and Water’s weatherization program is helping city residents prepare their homes for increasingly intense storms in ways that also reduce their energy use from fossil-fuel-derived sources and their utility bills. Contractors may install a new air conditioner or repair walls, but the resident is never charged for the services because ratepayers round up their bills to cover the cost.

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  • Can a Big Village Full of Tiny Homes Ease Homelessness in Austin?

    Community First Village offers permanent affordable housing to people who are chronically homeless. The Village houses about 400 residents in tiny homes, while also providing a sense of community, including a convenience store, community garden, medical clinic and chapel. Community First Village is set to add nearly 2,000 homes across three locations and has also inspired several similar housing villages across the country.

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  • Peace-building lessons from the heart of Nigeria

    The community-founded Claire Aid Foundation raised money on social media to rebuild houses that were destroyed in Jebbu Miango after a violent attack on the town left families displaced and unable to afford to return.

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