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First Steps Towards Integrating EcoDistricts Approaches in New York’s Affordable Housing

In the boredom of last year’s quarantine, I stumbled in Teva’s e-mail: Stronger Together – […] It’s times like these that we need to build community and connection. Recognizing that many of you are equally passionate about neighborhood-scale sustainability and struggling due to the shutdown of...Read More

Rewiring Urban Planning in Cape Town

February 1, 2018

By Rob Bennett

Can Partnership Between Neighborhood Civic Organizations and the City of Cape Town Help Reverse Decades of Spatial Apartheid? On November 13, a small group of wary civic leaders gathered with EcoDistricts Studio faculty in a gritty, vibrant, and increasingly gentrified...Read More

Oregon to South Africa: Incubator 2017

July 11, 2017

By Julian Smith

On a sunny afternoon in April, Luyanda Mphalwa gazed down on Portland, Oregon from the shiny silver aerial tram that climbs from the city’s riverside downtown to the hilltop campus of Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). Below, the angled...Read More

Enterprise Community Partners Merges Better Housing and Sustainability

April 3, 2017

By Katy Ricchiuto

Enterprise Community Partners is a respected national organization working to create opportunity for low- and moderate-income people through affordable housing in diverse, thriving communities. An EcoDistricts Organizational Member, Enterprise and EcoDistricts are working together to incorporate principles of sustainability, equity...Read More

HUD Neighborhood Award Acknowledges Value of District-Scale Regeneration

February 6, 2017

By Brionte McCorkle

$60 million in grants to accelerate critical equity outcomes for EcoDistricts’ partner neighborhoods, Near North Side and Sun Valley The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded two EcoDistricts partners with Choice Neighborhood Implementation grants in December 2016....Read More

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