❤️ The nation’s oldest National Park Service ranger, Betty Reid Soskin passed away on Sunday at 104 years old. Soskin spent her life preserving Black history, women’s stories, and overlooked voices — and in 2022, she told us what she believes her greatest contribution has been.
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Housing
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Atlanta opened a first-of-its-kind modular rapid-housing project for residents experiencing homelessness
Atlanta just opened a 100-unit housing development called Waterworks Village that will provide a permanent place to live for residents experiencing homelessness.
As part of a larger effort to address homelessness across the city, it’s the third rapid housing development the city has opened in just under two years, and the first modular multifamily development.
Thirty of the Waterworks units will be dedicated to people receiving on-site medical and mental health care offered through Project HEAL, which is being supported by six area hospitals.
What’s the nuance:Atlanta’s efforts to “create pathways out of homelessness” come as the federal government is planning to end financial support for permanent supportive housing, which threatens to derail the city’s goal to build 20,000 affordable housing units by 2030.
Thanks to Dolly Parton, 1 in 7 US children under the age of 5 receive free books every month
According to Dolly Parton’s father, the singer’s biggest, “most important” accomplishment has been the Imagination Library. And according to Parton, her father’s “inability to read probably kept him from fulfilling all of his dreams.”
Now 30 years since its inception, the Imagination Library has grown enormously. Every month, approximately 3 million children across the United States and Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom receive a free book in the mail — so far, it’s delivered over 270 million books.
The Imagination Library also works with local governments, libraries, and schools to implement its programming and reach as many children as possible.
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