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A community center project over 20 years in the making is now open and ready to welcome people looking to learn new skills and get ahead in life.

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Since the end of the Great Recession, new home construction has picked up across the nation, but not as quickly as demand for new homes.

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New housing construction in the central valley isn’t keeping up with the demand, as is evident across the country.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed long-overdue legislation to dedicate up to $130 million a year to provide clean, affordable drinking water to more than 1 million Californians who still lack access to this vital resource. The legislation creates the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund to help cash-strapped, smaller water systems, which primarily serve rural, low-income communities.

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There’s a housing boom of sorts going on right now on the westside of Porterville as two major housing projects are being built.

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Back in 1966, Bill was hired with other Quakers to create Self Help Enterprises to build homes for farmworkers in Tulare County. (Self Help Enterprises continues its mission today. Bill worked there for 23 years.)

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Miocar, the electric vehicle car sharing service, is now available in Kern and Tulare counties. The service will provide residents affordable access to vehicles that can be rented on an hourly or daily basis online or via a smartphone mobile app.
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Some of Tulare County’s neediest residents are getting moving thanks to the effort of a key nonprofit. Seeing a need for short-term car accessibility, Self-Help Enterprises worked out a car-share plan through Miocar with the aid of CalVans.

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A transportation revolution could be underway in Wasco and Arvin. Both cities will be part of Miocar, a new service that will allow residents to quickly rent electric cars for short periods of time through a smartphone app.

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Self-Help Enterprises will receive a $520,000 AHP award to help in its mission to work with low-income families to build and sustain healthy homes and communities in Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, Stanislaus, and Tulare counties through homebuyer assistance, repair assistance, communal construction of homes and other related projects. The grant money will be used for the construction of Self-Help Enterprises’ Madera Village project that provides multifamily housing for low and very-low income households with designated units for homeless individuals with special needs or mental illness.

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