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Concord, MA – Abode Energy Management LLC (Abode), is working with the Boston Mayor’s Office of Housing (MOH), to provide decarbonization services for the Healthy & Green Retrofit Pilot Program. The pilot enables the owners of 2–4 unit housing across the city to improve health, safety, and comfort for their residents. For those who qualify, MOH’s Boston Home Center (BHC) provides financing and construction project management. Additionally, the pilot lays the groundwork for future, scaled-up efforts to upgrade the city’s housing stock and achieve decarbonization goals. This moves Boston closer to its goal of achieving carbon neutrality by the year 2050.

What links exist between a city’s transportation system and equity? Perhaps, this is a question that seldom crosses the minds of many Americans.

Mayor Andre Dickens announced the appointment of Marcus Walker as Director of the Office of Violence Reduction. The Mayor’s Office of Violence Reduction (MOVR) serves as the City’s staff resource for violence reduction and community-based intervention and coordinates a comprehensive effort to reduce violence—especially with guns. As Director, Walker will ensure MOVR expands the Mayor’s … Continued

By Molly Bolan. Originally published in Route Fifty.

On June 22, 2023, two members of the Medici Road team – Thomas Houston and Alyssa Smaldino – facilitated a FUSE Corps Innovation Lab with the United Government (UG) of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, KS. Their FUSE Fellow, DeWayne Bright, Sr., is working to build a comprehensive housing strategy for the UG, which will be the first of its kind. With no centralized housing authority and a surging homelessness crisis, the UG engaged Medici Road to guide a set of diverse stakeholders through a process to generate creative solutions that can significantly increase access to housing while improving overall wellbeing in the region.

On May 2, 2023, two members of the Medici Road team – Thomas Houston and Alyssa Smaldino – facilitated a FUSE Innovation Lab with Milwaukee County. Their Equity Office, particularly their FUSE Fellow Kristin Vogel, has been organizing a community engagement strategy that increases government responsiveness to community needs, and utilizes the data and stories shared by community members to inform decisions about resource allocation. They posed the question: how might we move beyond community engagement to increase community power?

By Seth Bodine. Originally published in Fort Worth Report.

By Wesley Myrick. Originally published in Canopy Forum.

By Ashley Silver. Originally published in Government Technology.