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Grassroots Action Against Polluted Skies: How Jakarta’s Urban Villages Tackle Air Pollution 

The City Fix

On a Sunday afternoon in September 2023, a group of about 30 individuals, including a group of mostly female neighbors from nine kampungs (a common term for “urban villages” or “informal settlements” across multiple languages and nations in Southeast Asia).

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Quote on housing that's very apt: "As demand for housing rises, Philadelphia’s neighborhoods can either remain affordable or remain low-density. They cannot do both"

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

It's relevant to both strong and weak markets, because even in weak markets, there probably isn't enough housing. I think back in the day when the center city downtown was so thriving, it was close enough to the west side that there wasn't a big push to develop retail districts there. This is true everywhere, not just in Philadelphia.

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RVP 2024: Philanthropy and Community Revitalization

Center for Community Progress

Olivia Barrow Strauss, Vice President, Neighborhood Development for Corporate Responsibility, JPMorganChase : Drawing from our philanthropic, business, and research and policy expertise, we advance a holistic strategy to drive inclusive economic growth. These local partnerships play a critical role in informing our community investments.

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It's not the age of the housing stock, but the ability of property owners to maintain it: Disinvestment in Pittsburgh

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Vacant house and lots in the Larimer neighborhood. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has an article, " Pittsburgh’s neighborhoods pay the price for abandoned and decrepit homes ," about how Pittsburgh's lower income neighborhoods suffer from serious housing disinvestment. Better off segments have the money to maintain aging houses.

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WaterSMART Cooperative Watershed Management Program Phase I Grants - March 31, 2022

iGrantWriters

irrigation and water districts, county soil conservation districts) to submit proposals for Phase I activities to develop a watershed group, complete watershed restoration planning activities, and design watershed management projects. See Section C.4. Eligible Projects for a more comprehensive description of eligible activities.A

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Looking Back at the 2020-21 Community Revitalization Fellowship: Creative Placemaking by Community Leaders from Three Cities

Center for Community Progress

Each community cohort also receive a $10,000 grant to develop and execute their own creative placemaking projects. The 2020-2021 CRF Cycle The 2020-2021 Community Revitalization Fellowship included grassroots community leaders from Fitchburg, Massachusetts; Montgomery, Alabama; and Reading, Pennsylvania.

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Community Progress Welcomes 2022 Community Revitalization Fellows from New York, Pennsylvania, and Puerto Rico

Center for Community Progress

Cohorts of grassroots community leaders from Syracuse, New York ; Braddock/East Pittsburgh/North Braddock (BEN), Pennsylvania ; and Loíza, Puerto Rico will collectively learn revitalization strategies for neighborhoods struggling with vacancy, abandonment, and disinvestment. The Syracuse fellows are: Patrona Jones?Rowser