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  • Will Banning Single-Family Zoning Make for More Affordable Homes?

    Deonna Anderson

    July 31, 2019 |

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    Response Location: United States, Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Minneapolis serves as a model for other cities as it addresses the affordable housing crisis by de-incentivizing the development of single-family houses. By changing zoning laws to benefit the construction of duplexes and triplexes, the city makes room for more low-income families to afford to live in city limits.

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  • These Indigenous Women Are Reclaiming Stolen Land in the Bay Area

    Deonna Anderson

    April 30, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    The Sogorea Te Land Trust is an intertribal women-led organization that is working to reclaim ownership of land in the Bay Area that Ohlone people have lived on for centuries. They regained access to the land through a partnership with another local grassroots organization called Planting Justice, who will eventually hand over the land to Sogorea Te for free once it is fully paid off. Sogorea Te believes that the root of a lot of Indigenous problems is the dispossession of their land, so they hope to use this land to rebuild resiliency and a way of life for and with their people.

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  • The Instagram Community That's Decolonizing Fitness

    Deonna Anderson

    January 09, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States

    Trans- and queer-affirming people often feel isolated in a fitness industry where even the gym sign-up forms only have selections for either female or male. Decolonizing Fitness, an Instagram-based community, aims to change the stigma for this population by connecting those identifying as trans- and queer-affirming with trainers and gyms they are comfortable in.

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  • Standing Rock's Surprising Legacy: A Push for Public Banks

    Deonna Anderson

    January 02, 2019 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    In a post-Standing Rock economic era, cities like Seattle and Philadelphia look to the Bank of North Dakota as an example of a successful public banking structure. While public banking is a large undertaking for many cities, governments around the country search for options to divest from Wall Street.

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  • Lessons From Katrina: This Organization Tries to Get Hurricane Florence Survivors Home Quicker

    Deonna Anderson

    September 27, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, New Bern, North Carolina

    In the aftermath of natural disasters, like Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, SBP is an organization that works to provide long-term assistance for affected communities through a limited volunteer base, partnerships with local organizations, and a focus on the disproportionate impact that disasters have on already marginalized communities. And although the group's main purpose is to provide long-term recovery assistance, they've found it is vital to have a rapid disaster-response to prevent mistakes of the past.

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  • Making Healthy Habits Accessible for Every Body

    Deonna Anderson

    September 17, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    Radically Fit, is a gym meant of be a safe space for people of color, queer people, or fat-identified among others. The gym is an alternative for people that don’t usually feel safe in typical gyms that are often dominated by white, cis men. “Imagine how much more amazing your experience would be if you walked into a space and immediately felt like the space was for you.”It also offers a sliding-scale program that makes it affordable for everyone.

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  • This Chef Is Fighting Gentrification With Hot Chicken Audio icon

    Deonna Anderson

    August 31, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    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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  • High Schoolers Bring Their Love of Culinary Arts to Feed Local Homeless

    Deonna Anderson

    June 15, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Portland, Oregon

    In Portland, Oregon, high schoolers are taking a program that donates food from their culinary classes to the homeless and turning it into a Homeless Solutions Incubator to provide a more systemic solution for homelessness in the area. With grant funding from local non-profits and support from schools, they hope the program continues to grow and spread.

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