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WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When teacher Ashley Johnson arrived in Atlanta after a cross-country move last year, she was quickly confronted with the city’s affordable housing shortage, one of the worst in the country.
Eventually, a friend told her about a service called PadSplit, which connects tenants with shared housing options, similar to boarding houses, that are quickly growing in popularity across the United States.
For $145 a week, including utilities - far less than an apartment would have cost her - Johnson found a room in a house with four other housemates, just minutes from her work, with a furnished bedroom, and shared bathroom, kitchen and living room.
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FILE PHOTO - A protester holds a placard as she stands outside the venue for a meeting between Australia s Prime Minister Tony Abbott and forty of the nation s most influential Indigenous representatives in Sydney, Australia, July 6, 2015. REUTERS/David Gray
The agreement gives the Gunaikurnai community control over two gigalitres of water from the Mitchell River
By Peter Furst
SYDNEY – (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rights groups have hailed a decision by Australia’s Victoria state to give an Aboriginal community control over a river system as an “enormous first step” for indigenous people’s rights over nature.
The government announced last month that it will grant a portion of the water from the Mitchell River to the Gunaikurnai community, giving them control over two gigalitres of water every year – a first for the southeastern state.