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Embracing Healing Justice in California
A Stockton, Calif., organization is striving to transform its city through culturally
rooted, healing-centered practices and a pedagogy of love.
Cities - Articles
Social innovations that improve the health and resiliency of cities (more)
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Achieving Healthy Communities Through Transit Equity
Expanding public transit systems to connect low-income communities to healthy environments, high-quality education, and well-paying jobs isn’t enough. Transit has to be affordable as well as accessible.
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Using Fair Housing to Achieve Health Equity
Fair housing initiatives that focus on dispersion ignore the social structures and processes that result in the inequitable distribution of resources necessary for health.
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Reducing Health Disparities in Atlanta
A coalition of organizations is improving the health of low-income communities.
Big Change on Campus
Six years ago, the City Colleges of Chicago launched its own turnaround effort—a bid for “reinvention”—and now it’s earning high marks for improved performance.
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A First-Class Solution
The success of the Housing First movement shows why social service providers must listen to the people they serve.
Lost to Foreclosure
One of the cities hit hardest by the wave of home foreclosures was Stockton, Calif., a city that later declared bankruptcy.
A Slick Vehicle for Street Food
A specially designed food cart that combines high social impact with reduced environmental impact.
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Only in New York?
City officials under Mayor Michael Bloomberg made advances in public health that were important but hardly unique.
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A Tale of Two Futures
The sharing economy, as a feature of urban life, could evolve in promising or not-so-promising ways.