New Yorkers are coming up with innovative ways to help solve the housing crisis, which has been going on for years, through community land trusts (CLT). A $1 million donation from Citi Community Development has helped to start New York City’s first CLT, Interboro CLT. The project will start with developing 250 affordables units, with plans…
Obesity rates in Chile have been growing for the last years. A war against unhealthy food has been declared in the country. Marketing restrictions, packaging redesigns, labeling rules, everything is made aiming to change the habits of 18 million people. Nutrition experts say it’s a substantial change in the world, and it is an ambitious attempt to…
Scientists have been developing for the last few years a brain implant that would boost memory, called in their jargon an implantable “cognitive prosthetic”. This new development could be useful for many people even to the cynical. The implant works like a pacemaker, it constitutes an array of electrodes embedded deep in the brain and…
St Mungo’s and Changing Lives, charities that provide specialist support services for homeless and vulnerable people across the UK, are the first organizations to receive investment from Big Issue Invest’s Outcomes Investment Fund. Outcomes-based contracts are a type of public sector commissioning where a central or local government department commissions a provider to deliver support…