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Relief From the Heat: In Rapidly Warming Cities, Trees Can Save Lives

August 19, 2024August 19, 2024admin

Source: https://chesapeaketrees.net/2020/08/28/relief-from-the-heat-in-rapidly-warming-cities-trees-can-save-lives/ Research links increased heat vulnerability to unjust urban planning Story by Sadie E. Francis Melting ice caps, rising sea levels, increasingly tenacious hurricanes, and regular flooding have dominated…Continue readingRelief From the Heat: In Rapidly Warming Cities, Trees Can Save Lives

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ULI British Columbia Collaborates with Indigenous Populations to Overcome Housing Barriers

April 12, 2024April 12, 2024admin

By Erin Fowler, William Zeh Herbig September 27, 2023 Source: https://urbanland.uli.org/sustainability/uli-british-columbia-collaborates-with-indigenous-populations-to-overcome-housing-barriers As a result of discrimination, indigenous populations in British Columbia are facing inequitable access to stable housing. Barriers to housing have…Continue readingULI British Columbia Collaborates with Indigenous Populations to Overcome Housing Barriers

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Seattle urban Natives look to have a neighborhood to call their own

February 22, 2024February 22, 2024admin

Na’ah Illahee Fund is nearly finished with research that would help determine the future of an Indigenous neighborhood along the likes of Chinatown and Little Saigon by Luna Reyna / May 31,…Continue readingSeattle urban Natives look to have a neighborhood to call their own

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Urban American Indians and AlaskaNatives ExperiencingHomelessness in California: Strategies for Addressing Housing Insecurities

February 11, 2024February 12, 2024admin

Source: https://ipr.usc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/NAH-Report-_-Tribal-MAT.pdf DECEMBER 2020 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This project was conducted as part of the California Opioid State Targeted Response (STR) programming to conduct a needs assessment of opioid use disorder treatment…Continue readingUrban American Indians and AlaskaNatives ExperiencingHomelessness in California: Strategies for Addressing Housing Insecurities

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Homeward Bound, where a person is treated “like a human being,” as a culturally specific shelter, it holds American Indian rituals

February 10, 2024February 12, 2024admin

Source: https://www.cbs58.com/news/how-one-minnesota-county-has-been-rapidly-housing-the-homeless-since-the-pandemic By: CNN Posted: Oct 16, 2022 4:17 PM CST By Katie Lobosco, CNN Photographs by Sarah Silbiger for CNN (CNN) — On a breezy morning in July, Fabian Jones…Continue readingHomeward Bound, where a person is treated “like a human being,” as a culturally specific shelter, it holds American Indian rituals

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Supportive Housing Sustains Native American Culture and Addresses Homelessness in Seattle, Washington

February 7, 2024February 7, 2024admin

Source: https://www.huduser.gov/portal/pdredge/pdr-edge-inpractice-041922.html In Seattle, Native Americans account for only 1 percent of the population but 15 percent of the total population of those experiencing homelessness and 32 percent of the…Continue readingSupportive Housing Sustains Native American Culture and Addresses Homelessness in Seattle, Washington

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American Indian / Alaskan Native Homelessness Increased 75% between 2022-20223, the Largest of ANY Subpopulation in LA County

February 6, 2024February 6, 2024admin

Source: https://lanaic.lacounty.gov/commission/ad-hoc-committees/homelessness/

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Housing for Urban Indigenous Peoples, Tribal Residents, and Tribal Nations

November 19, 2023November 19, 2023admin

Source: https://www.nlc.org/article/2022/11/29/housing-for-indigenous-peoples-tribal-nations/ NOVEMBER 29, 2022 by Samantha Steeves for the National League of Cities. *Note: There are many different naming conventions for Native American and Indigenous communities, who are in no…Continue readingHousing for Urban Indigenous Peoples, Tribal Residents, and Tribal Nations

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Orange County’s first modular wood constructed supportive housing development under construction

November 14, 2023November 14, 2023admin

Source: https://spectrumnews1.com/ca/la-west/housing/2021/09/01/casa-paloma-supportive-housing-midway-city-orange-county We see this as a template for tomorrow. Milo Peinemann, the CEO of American Family Housing, an affordable housing developer based in Midway City BY JOSEPH PIMENTEL ORANGE COUNTY PUBLISHED…Continue readingOrange County’s first modular wood constructed supportive housing development under construction

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Mechanisms Perpetuating Racial Inequality in Subsidized Housing Programs

November 10, 2023November 10, 2023admin

Source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/23780231231192389 Authors: Junia Howell, Ellen Whitehead, Elizabeth Korver-Glenn; Notes: Junia Howell, University of Illinois Chicago, Department of Sociology, 1007 W. Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607-7101, USA Email: jhowel4@uic.edu Abstract Initially, U.S. federally funded…Continue readingMechanisms Perpetuating Racial Inequality in Subsidized Housing Programs

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