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Want to know more about how Habitat works and responds to emergencies that threaten housing in the Pacific? Our Group CEO, Alan Thorp, has spoken to the Emergency Alliance , answering all of the big questions. 🏠 "Preparedness is crucial for housing, as it's far more challenging to rebuild following a disaster, given it is so demanding on resources, especially capital, and time needed to scale up. So, Habitat tends not to be a first responder but comes in after to support recovery."

🏘️ Transforming Communities Together in Scarborough, Ontario! 🏘️ Discover the revolutionary Connected Community Approach (CCA) - a framework designed ‘by the community for the community’. 🌟 This innovative model shifts the focus from seeing communities as vulnerable recipients to empowering them as active partners in solving today’s biggest challenges. Drawing on social innovation, deep equity, and community development, CCA builds powerful cross-sector coalitions and introduces three game-changing innovations: 1️⃣ Community-based facilitators as backbone organizations. 2️⃣ Strategies for centering community in organizational action planning. 3️⃣ 10 keys to unlock the potential of connected communities at local and systems levels. With a 25-year legacy, CCA strengthens social fabric, creating healthier and more equitable communities. Ready to see how Scarborough is leading the way? 🚀 Read the full article now! 👉

In this episode, Mitchell Cohen, President of Daniels Corporation, discusses leading the $1.5 billion revitalization of Toronto’s Regent Park. Learn how affordability, community preservation, and resilience transformed a neglected neighborhood into a thriving, inclusive space rooted in history and vision. https://lnkd.in/gbuWpMhb

The Klamath River is flowing free once again. After decades of legal battles, community activism, and Indigenous-led efforts, the largest dam removal project in history is bringing life back to a river that salmon haven’t called home for 60 years. Discover how resilience, partnership, and the power of restoration can transform ecosystems, renew cultural traditions, and give hope for the future. Read more about this historic moment and what it means for the river, the salmon, and the people who depend on them in this week’s Fish Report. https://lnkd.in/gDWnyC7n

Some brilliant stories being shared at this year’s Scotland’s Community Heritage Conversations, where the theme is Connection & Create Capacity, at #TheEngineShed in Stirling. Mike Benson’s wonderfully inspiring story of the rebuilding of the The Scottish Crannog Centre after a fire, and sharing his four priorities for creating connection in the heritage sector: - There’s an abundance of skills and passion, find it, use it. Don’t gatekeep it. - Think deeply about how you approach diversity and inclusivity. - Use your networks, your networks’ networks. - Find the human beings that can make things happen. Don’t get stuck in the processes and protocol. Mike’s closing inspiring remarks were: “Keep connected to your folk, because that’s where your strength comes from to keep on going. Because it’s really tough out there just now” #CelebrateCHC

Noticing, valuing and promoting connected relationships are key to building resilient, compassionate communities. Find out more about Creating Connections: https://lnkd.in/e_FWNFR7

In an op-ed for Smart Cities Dive, LISC CEO Michael T. Pugh and Enterprise Community Partners CEO Shaun Donovan discuss how climate and community development are fundamentally interconnected. They argue that for investments in green community development to be successful, the work must be guided by strategies that prioritize community input and involvement. Read More at https://lnkd.in/g6usKbYp.

I cannot recommend this film from The King's Foundation and collaborators enough https://lnkd.in/e3P8pp97. If you care about sustainable transport and/or sustainable development, give it 7 mins to watch. Like the places in it, I think it will pay you back. There is another way... It opens with the startling fact that in 1980 57% of homes in this country were built by small to medium house builders; in 2020 that figure was 10%. It has well-observed truths such as how it is easy to build a house, but harder to build a community. It understands that car dependency, once locked in, is so very hard to reverse and has such wide-ranging negative consequences. That everyone has the right to a high quality environment. That mixed use and mixed tenure work, single zoning does not. That the power of walkability, cyclability is very wide-ranging. That you shouldn't take out more than you put in. That this overall approach makes commercial sense. Best of all it is made by a bunch of landowners/developers! We see the negative impacts for shared transport of getting developments wrong all the time; sometimes we get to see the positive impacts of getting developments right shine through. Our report has thoughts on this: https://lnkd.in/eua66mrR Our response to the recent National Planning Policy Framework consultation from Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government made clear our disappointment that the draft does not set very clear direction on how spatial planning must surely be used as a positive tool to help transport emissions reduce, bringing as that does an enormous package of co-benefits. Thank you Anthony Downs for posting this, thought-provoking as always.

We are excited to announce that the Brenham Heritage Museum received a Community Development Partnership grant from the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA)! We are looking forward to installing new window shades, tinting, and drainage spouts to improve energy efficiency and protect the museum’s valuable collections and historic structure. #LCRAGivesBack Read more at: https://shorturl.at/FhdFE