Housing

We Are Here: Crystal Steele on Personal Triumph and the Interfaith Hospitality Network
November 20, 2018

These are the stories of those experiencing and fighting housing insecurity here in Cincinnati. We believe telling stories changes things. We believe listening changes things. We promised the community that we would tell their stories. It’s up to you to listen. Visit womenofcincy.org/housing for the full series.

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We Are Here: Women of Cincy on the Story of Home
November 6, 2018

We believe in the power of storytelling and the importance of investing in the future by sharing those stories – whether they are stories of successful community ventures or lessons learned from stories of things you wish happened just a […]

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Revitalizing St. Louis’ South Side
October 30, 2018

DeSales Community Development is a community-based non-profit formed in 1976 to serve the Fox Park and Tower Grove East neighborhoods in the City of St. Louis. They promote the ongoing growth of neighborhoods as healthy, diverse urban communities with quality housing through real estate development, property management, and community programming.

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Environment  / Equity  / Housing

Spotlight Stories: Stockton, California
September 11, 2018

In 2011, Stockton became the largest U.S. city at the time to declare bankruptcy, creating a power vacuum that resulted in an opportunity for residents and civic leaders to disrupt the power structure and support the ideas and hopes of new and bold leaders like 28-year old Mayor Michael Tubbs.

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Visualizing Wellbeing: Humane Housing
September 6, 2018

The Visualizing Wellbeing series explores the state of wellbeing in the United States through a collection of data visualizations. Each week we will explore one vital condition that comprise our framework for community wellbeing, developed in partnership through the Well Being Legacy Initiative.

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Spotlight Stories: King County, Washington
August 28, 2018

Over the past decade, equity and social justice have emerged as explicit criteria for the new legacies that King County seeks to create. This is long-term work, yet approached with the urgency of a present, pressing crisis.

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Spotlight Stories: Laramie County, Wyoming
August 7, 2018

The need for resiliency is not an unknown problem in the United States, but in Laramie County, it became clear that to build resiliency, housing stability for local youth had to be  first priority. After a Point-in-Time count was facilitated by those on the Strong Families action team of the Laramie County Community Partnership, the need was clear: there were too many homeless youth in Laramie County. The necessary resources to ensure safe and stable housing for youth were virtually non-existent.

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Spotlight Stories: Thunder Valley CDC
July 24, 2018

On one evening, community members began comparing Pine Ridge to other reservations – Why weren’t they advancing like others? Why did Pine Ridge lack so much in so many areas? During ceremony, these young people were called into action and propelled to look beyond the poverty that was so ingrained on the Reservation, and instead look into systemic changes that could shift the wellbeing of their people.

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in Young Men of Color
March 27, 2018

An action brief released on the California Endowment explains how PTSD symptoms in boys and men of color (BMoCs) are often dismissed as the patients being “too hard” or “unremorseful” while really they are suffering from trauma that cannot be pinpointed to a single incident but are recurring factors in their daily lives.

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Health & Equity in General Plans: California’s Giant Step
March 6, 2018

We believe in the power of storytelling and the importance of investing in the future by sharing those stories – whether they are stories of successful community ventures or lessons learned from stories of things you wish happened just a […]

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