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Cities Build Homeless Shelters for LGBT Youth

The population experiences homelessness at disproportionate rates.

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New Law Prevents Housing Discrimination for Returning Citizens in Cook County

A coalition of more than 100 advocacy groups in and around Chicago is celebrating a victory after the Cook County Board of Commissioners adopted a law last month meant to help returning citizens and...

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College Housing Assistance Program

Even with free community college, a lack of stable housing makes obtaining a degree or certificate is extremely challenging. At Tacoma Community College in Washington State, 74 percent of homeless...

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City to help pay for disabled veterans’ home improvement needs

Councilman Chris Cate announced Tuesday that the city will begin offering home improvement funding assistance for San Diego’s disabled veterans.

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Homeless Subway Riders To Get Services Instead Of Tickets

Cops will connect homeless people on the subway with services instead of writing them tickets under a new pilot program, city officials say.

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NYCHA Pilot Program to Offer Free Air Conditioning to Some Residents

With the start of summer just a few days away, the city housing authority has unveiled a new plan to help its residents beat the heat.

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California Residents Turn To 'Granny Flats' As A Small-Scale Solution For...

In the midst of California's housing crisis, one quick fix is the "granny flat." These small backyard units are all the rage in recent years, due in part to legislation that made building them easier.

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Kansas City Takes Data-Driven Approach to Addressing Blight

The Abandoned to Vacant project, a collaboration between the city and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, uses open data to map abandoned houses and give potential buyers a sense of the surrounding...

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New S.F. Pilot to Target Homeless Residents Most in Need of Mental Health,...

San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Wednesday announced a new long-term plan to help get more homeless people suffering from mental illness and substance abuse off the streets and into treatment...

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Why Hospitals Are Getting Into The Housing Business

One patient at Denver Health, the city’s largest safety net hospital, occupied a bed for more than four years — a hospital record of 1,558 days.

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Mapping Tool IDs Potential Land for Affordable Housing

Land Access for Neighborhood Development is a mapping platform that allows Miami policymakers to visualize where lots are available near transit that could become housing options for underserved...

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New Philly program aims to help renters by giving repair loans to their...

Philadelphia is getting ready to roll out a new loan program designed to help small landlords repair their units, and keep the city’s short supply of affordable housing intact for low-income renters.

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Is Tenants’ Right to Counsel On Its Way to Becoming Standard Practice?

Two years after New York became the first city in the United States to guarantee legal representation for every tenant facing eviction, four more cities have followed suit, and a bill has been...

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Duluth to Provide Free Land for Creative Housing Proposals

To address its housing shortage, the city of Duluth is giving away free parcels of land to developers with viable proposals for low-cost housing.

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Kansas City Adopts a Tenants Bill of Rights

The bill is a public resource that will help tenants navigate their relationship with landlords, and — just as critically, organizers say — an official expression of solidarity from the local governing...

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This new LA County map tracks homeless population density and shelter...

The map’s layers color-code the number of homeless individuals in any given area — based on the 2019 point-in-time count — the number of shelter beds available, and the pipeline of new shelters and...

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Eureka Seeks "Co-Pilots" To Uplift Homeless People

Life is a long journey; a lot of us wish for a co-pilot. The need may be felt more acutely by people living on the street.

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Baltimore wins $10M Fannie Mae grant to create temporary housing network...

Baltimore’s housing department and a local education consulting firm have won a $10 million grant from Fannie Mae to determine whether a network of temporary housing located near schools and coupled...

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City of Atlanta launches affordable housing ‘tracker’ to illustrate progress

The new dashboard shows a long way to go before a goal of 20,000 units by 2026 is reached

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Program Helps DC Homeowners Provide Low-Cost Housing — and Build Wealth

With the ADU D.C. program announced last August, UPO is trying to find ways to make ADUs cheaper and easier to build for moderate-income homeowners like Foster.

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