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Kathryn Howell’s transit diary details a week spent commuting from Capitol Hill to College Park on bike, to University of Virginia on rail, and more, as she enjoys that car-lite life. ....
Alexandria to consider financing two new affordable housing developments. Partial shutdown on Metrorail’s Blue and Silver lines this weekend. Family remembers teen cyclist fatally struck by driver in Bethesda. And more in today’s Breakfast links. ....
To prevent small businesses from being priced out of Boyle Heights, a nonprofit is buying commercial property and offering tenants a share in ownership. ....
Diverse Populations and Health Impacts of Internal Displacement 14 May 2021 14 May 2021, 15:30 - 17:00 BST Conflict-driven internal displacement has an acute impact on the health of those who are forced to flee as internally displaced persons (IDPs). However, stratifications of gender, age and social diversity within a single IDP population, as well as broader distinctions between IDP populations in different countries, mean that the disease burden is not equally distributed. How, then, can health policy and interventions respond to the differential health impact of internal displacement in IDP populations? The Health and Internal Displacement Network (HIDN), launched in April 2021, promotes research engagement and evidence-driven policy on IDP health. This event - the first in our new 2021 HIDN Webinar Series - builds on earlier HIDN expert workshops with researchers and policy actors that identified IDPs as often the population most affected ....
JPMorgan Chase Invests $3 Million to Help Prevent Small Business Closures Posted on 2270 JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM) is set to invest USD3 Million in a program led by the University of Maryland that impedes the displacement of small and minority businesses affected by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The funds will permit the National Center for Smart Growth to establish a “Small Business Anti-Displacement Network.” The network hopes to team up with business leaders such as policy makers, scholars, government agencies and community-based organizations, in order to create tools and policies that will work to stop business closures. According to Willow Lung-Amam, the network’s future director and principal investigator, minority-owned companies are likely to shut-down as a result of development, bigger business and higher-income residents moving into their area. ....