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• 'What is the future we want to have?': How cities are expanding food access during the pandemic and beyond

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  During a recent Cities of Service webinar, local leaders came together to discuss strategies for overcoming food insecurities exacerbated by COVID-19

• 7 steps governments can take to prevent a coronavirus housing disaster

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  The Los Angeles Times' Editorial Board shares strategies that could help governments across the country stave off a major pandemic-related housing crisis

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• Portland, Oregon, voters overwhelmingly approve tax to help homeless community

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  The projected $2.5 billion raised over the next decade will be devoted to services including rent assistance, case management and outreach, job training, and mental health and substance abuse treatment

• Ask a city manager: Durham, N.C.’s Thomas Bonfield

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  Durham, N.C. looks to a future of shared economic prosperity while facing COVID-19 and a malware attack

• Philanthropic organization provides funding for community improvement in rural Oregon towns

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  According to The Reser Family Foundation, “when communities of every size do well, our state becomes stronger."

• Ask a town administrator: Marblehead, Massachusetts’ Jason Silva

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  Jason Silva shares preservation, sustainability and transportation initiatives, and his biggest challenge.

• White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.: Resilient, resolved to rebuild, revitalize

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  After historic flooding pummeled much of the town in 2016, White Sulphur Springs has been making a come back.

• Resilence Matters e-book: The year when climate change got real

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  But if climate change got real in 2019, climate resilience got realer

• Buffalo Mayor Outlines Plan to Become Leading 'Smart City' in Nation

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  Though often short on details, which presumably will come later, Brown outlined a variety of proposals to make Buffalo a technology-savvy, inclusive community.

• California Housing Crisis: Berkeley Law Would Put Renters First

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  Berkeley's idea is the latest creative solution proposed to ease California's housing crisis, which would give renters "the first refusal and right to purchase" when their apartment buildings or rented homes are put on the market.

• 'This vote was for home rule': Montgomery mayor calls out Alabama Legislature over occupational tax

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  A bill working its way through the Alabama Legislature seeks to limit city governments' use of occupational taxes to address revenue shortfalls

• Chicago announces $10 million in funding to help small business owners in underserved neighborhoods

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  Chicago's Neighborhood Opportunity Fund will help finance commercial and cultural small business projects in the city's West, Southwest and South Sides

• Los Angeles Adopts New 'War Room' Strategy for Tackling Homelessness

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  The new initiative is inspired by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's approach to finding homes for people suddenly displaced by hurricanes.

• More States See Zoning as Lever to Lower Housing Costs

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  Among the diverse efforts to create enough affordable housing, state zoning proposals have become a hot topic.

• San Francisco Rescues Homes for Elderly, Homeless and Mentally Ill

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  Residents of these board-and-care facilities are some of the city's most vulnerable, and many would likely wind up homeless if not for the around-the-clock care.

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