HRI Communities closes financing to launch redevelopment of historic Touro Shakspeare website
KEY TAKEAWAYS: HRI Communities closed financing to renovate the Touro Shakspeare almshouse into 52 inexpensive senior residences. The $26 million venture follows a city-funded stabilization section accomplished in September. All models will serve low-income seniors with Part 8 vouchers and…
Trump-fueled gasoline growth has fenceline Gulf Coast communities on edge
This story is from Floodlight, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates the powers stalling local weather motion. Join Floodlight’s e-newsletter right here. For greater than a decade, Rebekah Hinojosa has fought the buildout of liquefied pure gasoline terminals close to the…
The United Nations International Plastics Treaty: validating the struggles of fenceline communities in Louisiana
In mid-November, days earlier than this week’s remaining United Nations assembly to debate plastic air pollution, the Biden Administration declared that it not supported a cap on new plastic manufacturing, as a part of a world treaty to guard environmental…