Domonique Tomlinson didn’t know much about the Shore Acres neighborhood of St. Petersburg, Florida, when she bought a house here four years ago, but she learned quickly about the repeated flooding…
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Nearly one week after the Supreme Court delivered its Johnson v. Grants Pass ruling, housing justice funders from around the country gathered in Washington, D.C., during the 2024 Funders Institute to discuss…
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California’s homeless service nonprofits have a problem: They aren’t getting paid on time, and it’s making it even harder for them to get people off the street. California’s homeless service…
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On Sept. 29, Pastor Timothy Williams will lose the property insurance coverage for his home in rural Elba, Alabama. It’s another mark on a long list of recent letdowns for…
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Last month, Anchorage conducted a sweep on a large homeless encampment on Fairbanks Street following numerous complaints from local businesses and residents about public health and safety concerns. Despite these issues, no…
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Michael Bell Sr. has believed for years that Kenosha police officers victimized his family — first by killing his son in 2004 and then, he alleges, by covering up what…
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Catastrophic. Deadly. Life-threatening. These are words used to describe the strongest hurricane to affect the United States this year. Making landfall near Perry, Florida, as a Category 4 storm, Hurricane Helene caused…
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As it stands, NOAA, the nation’s main weather service, is one of the few resources communities can access when attempting to understand how a major storm or wildfire may impact…
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In a lot of ways, an attack on Nabala Cafe always felt inevitable — and we didn’t even have a Palestinian flag hanging in the window when we first opened in July.…
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A new coffee stand called the Coffee Corner at our Brooklyn Justice Initiatives office is bringing humanity to the legal process by giving people involved in the justice system a chance…
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Transformative change in disaster prevention requires big thinking. Just as some of philanthropy’s biggest successes, such as marriage equality to vaccines, were once thought of as inconceivable moonshots, so too…
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