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Using Online Community Engagement to Empower Older Adults

Social Pinpoint

Online community engagement has truly transformed how we connect, communicate, and access information. In this article, we will explore how to combat these challenges by sharing five ways to empower online community engagement in older adults. How Should We Define ‘Older Adults’ in Our Community?

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Beyond the Exodus: California’s Urban Centres in a Remote Work Age

The Lowe Down

The dominant narrative is that neighbourhood with easy access to the outdoors or that have maintained community engagement amid the rise of working-from-home have experienced strong increases in property values. I test this narrative by analysing zip-code level home price data from the SF and LA metropolitan areas for 2019 and 2024.

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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

One possible tool to address the affordable housing crunch is the Community Land Trust (CLT). CLTs offer reliable stewardship of community land assets and a long-term promise of affordable housing (Davis 2010). On the Transformative Potential of Community Land Trusts in the United States.” 3 (2019): 795-817.

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National Community Planning Month: Schools as neighborhood anchors

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Another element could be treating schools as "neighborhood cultural centers" too, the way I describe how neighborhood libraries should be positioned (" Neighborhood libraries as nodes in a neighborhood and city-wide network of cultural assets ," 2019).

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The Future of Recycling Programs and the Role of Community Feedback

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In 2022, all California cities and counties will be legally required to recycle organic waste. From 2014 to 2019 alone, the number of communities offering composting programs grew by 65 percent ! Learn more about budgeting with community engagement on the issues that matter. Schedule a demo.

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Managing Emergencies: The Challenges of the Future

Disaster Planning and Emergency Management

In some instances, notably the Manchester Arena bombing and the Grenfell Tower fire (both in 2017), the shortcomings have been nothing less than scandalous (Kerslake 2018, Moore-Bick 2019). They have few mechanisms for involving the community or creating an efficient, effective local system. link] (accessed 21 October 2022).

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Hospitals as urban anchors/revitalization levers, not usually, but with great potential to serve communities in important ways: Examples are two forthcoming projects by Intermountain Health and University of Utah Health

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

In August [2022], the hospital system opened its affordable housing project Vía Sana in Cleveland’s Clark-Fulton neighborhood. The Mental Health clinic will include a community space, community gym facility, teaching kitchen, and dental clinic also (" Community input shaped new mental health clinic in Denver’s Park Hill ," Denver Post ).