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Bedrooms Are For People Petition: Argument In Favor of Updating Housing Policy | Community Corner
The Bedrooms Are For People petition drive aims to convince Boulder voters to relax the decades-old home occupancy restrictions in the city.
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The Injustice of Real Estate: History, Hope, and Solutions for a More Equitable Future
The historical timeline of racism in the U.S., leading up to today, has systematically worked to prevent the BIPOC community from acquiring wealth and homes as easily as White people.
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Funding Educators: The Money and Organizations Keeping Roofs over Teachers’ Heads
Teachers help our children acquire important knowledge, develop powerful thinking skills, and attain the talents required to excel at a craft and achieve professional success. However, the pay that our government provides for the teachers of our children is disproportionately inadequate…
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Activists Among Us: [A Few of] The People Making BOCO the Best it Can Be
It’s all fun and games ’till they put up a toxic well in your backyard, or the new American Gestapo kidnaps a neighbor. These activists are fighting for the BOCO we all want and deserve. Malala Yousafzai once said, “I…
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Policy & Property: The Widespread Problem and Potential Solutions to the Colorado Housing Crisis | Home & Hood
Over the recent decade, the housing crisis in Colorado reflected a dichotomy of rapid growth, leading to both positive benefits and negative consequences. Colorado has enjoyed a substantial economic boom that allowed many industries to flourish and inevitably attracted many…
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Hood Guide: 8 North Metro Neighborhoods
New Urbanism,” much like art movements or political philosophies with hybrid names — Postmodernism or Neoconservativism, Classical Realism or ProtoFascism —is a compound “ism” that would likely lead to blank stares if you dropped it matter-of-factly in casual conversation. But…
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Reclaiming Sustainability
In 2013, an alarming piece of released governmental data revealed how Colorado had become a central target in contributing to the threat of climate change. Between the years of 2000 and 2010, the state was recorded having one of the…
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2016 Election: State Congressional Candidates and CU Regents
We sought out the candidates' positions on six local issues: hydrofracking, marijuana, health care, housing & cost of living, climate change, and education.
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