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??How Community-Based Public Space Can Build Civic Trust: Lessons from Akron

NonProfit Quarterly

Ongoing neglect and isolation led to entrenched, concentrated poverty and a growing distrust of civic leaders. All these popular amenities and activities were conceived and constructed in close collaboration with residents. Flora and fauna were thriving, and its water was as clean as other urban lakes. Resident fear abated.

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Housing and Climate: Funding Holistic Solutions

Stanford Social Innovation Review

FHO, which centers racial equity in cross-sector efforts to address the systemic causes of housing insecurity, is now actively searching out ways to invest in housing and climate justice. Currently, an estimated 20 percent of emissions in the United States comes from the energy used in homes.