Monday Mailing
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How Can We Build Support for Affordable Housing? Mapping Trees To Figure Out Just How Good For Us They Are Business Oregon - Finance Programs FEAST Leadership Network Webinar: Food Hubs - May 7th Greenhouse Gas Reduction Toolkit Now Online Earn Rewards for Your Volunteer Efforts! Building “Buy Local” Campaigns that Shift Culture and Spending Rural Gateway Common Grant Writing Mistakes You Can Fix Today! Wind Map 11. Free Webinars on Disaster Preparedness & Economic Recovery 1. How Can We Build Support for Affordable Housing? How can we build support for affordable housing? That’s the question at the heart of a recent report from the Center for Housing Policy, “Building Support for Affordable Homeownership and Rental Choices.” 1
Quote of the Week: "Still round the corner there may wait a new road or a secret gate. And though I often have passed them by a day will come at last when I shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun." ~ J.R.R. Tolkien
Oregon Fast Fact: Oregon is located nearest the 45th parallel. The 45th parallel is equidistant from the North Pole and the equator and is found just north of Salem.
The report’s authors, Janet Viveiros and Rebecca Cohen, looked at the role of advocacy and communication for affordable housing through two lenses: public opinion research, and language and messaging. They examined findings from 35 research studies, as well as current data. Among the key findings — grouped by those that relate to public opinion about affordable housing, and those that relate to the language and messaging used in advocating for affordable housing — are the following… To access the full story, click here. 2. Mapping Trees To Figure Out Just How Good For Us They Are OpenTreeMap is helping cities figure out where all the trees are, so they can better judge the environmental and public health impacts of a wellplanted city. Here's a hint: The impacts are huge. Until recently, cities haven't had a good handle on their trees. Generally, they've not kept good records of where their trees are, which ones need attention, and what "ecosystem services" (say, in reducing pollution) they provide. That's changing because of OpenTreeMap, open-source software that's powering more than a dozen urban tree-inventory initiatives. Philadelphia now has PhillyTreeMap (56,884 trees and counting). Tampa has Tampa Tree Map (2,669 trees so far). And San Diego has San Diego Tree Map (340,952 trees). And more projects are on the way. To access the full story, click here.
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