Advocates and researchers have never had stronger evidence about the best way to most effectively house people who need it: a model known as “housing first.” As the name suggests, its focus is getting people into permanent housing and offering them support services, rather than requiring them to address mental health conditions, substance abuse, or job training first.
Read MoreThe Neighborhood Institute is a neighborhood leadership-education program established in 1987 by the Center For Neighborhoods, a non-profit civic organization. The Neighborhood Institute equips neighborhood leaders with the resources necessary to effect positive change by acting through and with their neighborhood groups. Part of the Neighborhood Institute curriculum includes a self-directed project in the community. Through the class projects, people become engaged in the community as they branch out and apply the information and knowledge from the class to real-life situations.
Read MoreShe said the results “should be categorized as a ‘youth wave,’ with near-historic numbers of young people turning out to vote, motivated not by party, but by the issues impacting them.”
Read MoreAccording to Brown, people who blame neighborhoods for violence are missing the real problem. “My neighborhoods are being attacked by … unjust legislation. My neighborhoods are being attacked by having no resources in our schools and in our homes,” he said. He thanked educators and school staff for supporting him through every challenge and encouraged them to call on him for help.
Read MoreThe decision to declare states of emergency highlights the dual narrative of homelessness today: National point-in-time count data, collected in January, suggest that overall homelessness is trending downward. Indeed, some cities have made dramatic reductions in the number of veterans who are homeless on a repeat or long-term basis. But in certain places, and among certain parts of the homeless population, it’s getting worse. "For veterans in particular, Congress has made the resources available, scaled to the size of the problem," said Steve Berg, vice president of policy and programs at the National Alliance to End Homelessness. "For the rest of the homeless population, that just hasn’t happened."
Read MoreThe event ― which took place this year for the first time in at least a decade ― was hosted at the Louisville Memorial Auditorium and welcomed Black women to compete as themselves, regardless of who they are or where they've come from. About 250 friends and family members were in the crowd, said Ashley Anderson, executive director of Miss Black Kentucky.
Read MoreConsistent exposure to music, like learning to play a musical instrument, or taking voice lessons, strengthens a particular set of academic and social-emotional skills that are essential to learning. In ways that are unmatched by other pursuits, like athletics for instance, learning music powerfully reinforces language skills, builds and improves reading ability, and strengthens memory and attention, according to the latest research on the cognitive neuroscience of music.
Read MoreMayor Greg Fischer and Metro Council members today announced the city is in contract negotiations to devote about $32 million of federal American Rescue Plan (ARP) dollars to five community organizations for permanent supportive housing projects, providing help to vulnerable people not only with more stable housing, but also more opportunities for stability and productivity in their lives.
Read MoreA new study reveals that 20 percent of Kentucky's child care centers could be at risk of closure. Kentucky Edition looks at what's behind the problem.
Read MoreOn August 18, 2022, EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan signed the Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention (SCCAP) Proposed Rule, which proposes revisions to the Risk Management Program (RMP) to further protect vulnerable communities from chemical accidents, especially those living near facilities with high accident rates. The proposed rule would strengthen the existing program and includes new safeguards that have not been addressed in prior RMP rules. In addition to accepting written comments during the public comment period, EPA is also holding virtual public hearings. The virtual public hearings will provide the opportunity to present information, comments or views pertaining to the SCCAP proposed rule.
Read MoreDiscussions about atonement for the enslavement of Black Americans has a long history in the United States. Most famously, General William T. Sherman drafted Special Field Order 15 in 1865. The order stipulated that Confederate land seized in Georgia and South Carolina would be split among formerly enslaved Black people in those states, no more than 40 acres per family.
Read MoreMetro Councilman Jecorey Arthur, D-4th District, who represents downtown, part of the West End and neighborhoods just east of the Central Business District, said he is finalizing an ordinance that would do just that after meeting with the Office for Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods and officials in other cities with gun buyback programs.
Read MoreA federal grand jury in Louisville, Kentucky, returned two indictments that were unsealed today, and the Department of Justice filed a third charging document today, in connection with an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old woman who was shot and killed in her Louisville home on March 13, 2020, by police officers executing a search warrant.
Read MoreIn one word, what’s your biggest hope for Louisville?
“Organization.”
In one word, what’s your biggest fear for Louisville?
“Disorganization.”
Read MoreLouisville’s Office of Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods is building a comprehensive violence prevention network by connecting new and existing programs run by nonprofits, government agencies and grassroots groups alike that officials say will be fully operational by summer.
Read MoreDespite policy mandating “detox inmates” like Dunbar be checked on by officers every 20 minutes, an internal investigation found the only time guards had eyes on her for the 18 hours she was confined in the booth was when officers “happened to walk by while conducting other business.” The evening before she hanged herself using a pair of soiled pants, one of those officers gave her the middle finger through the rectangular window of the booth’s door.
Read MoreThe majority of Americans don’t work from home, but among those who do, there’s a battle going on about where they’ll work in the future. And it’s not just people who enjoy remote work who are upset about the return to the office.
Read MoreThe racial disparity was just one of several failings GAO identified in a trio of long-awaited reports Tuesday on the U.S. unemployment insurance system and how it fared during Covid-19. The pandemic and subsequent shutdowns triggered an unprecedented wave of demand for jobless benefits, which — even with additional aid from Congress — the network was ill-equipped to meet.
Read MoreThese are no petty thefts; they are enormously significant. The 1980s was a period of heightened interest among Black Americans in the histories and genealogies severed by slavery, as historian Danielle Wiggins writes. Hundreds of thousands attended “Black Family Reunions” in this decade, inspired by the 1977 television miniseries Roots. For police to destroy family photos, as well as objects handed down through Jim Crow, was to further alienate families from their identities and their pasts. For Black renters without other assets to their name, communities and histories are an inheritance.
Read MoreThe need for affordable housing continues to grow in urban centers. The traditional form of affordable housing for suburban and rural areas, mobile homes, have become overrun with speculation, pricing people out through a new type of landlord - private equity.
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