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@rosie400.bsky.social
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Planning & environmental campaigner. Co-founder Community Planning Alliance www.communityplanningalliance.org. Founder Essex Suffolk Norfolk Pylons www.pylonseastanglia.co.uk

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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Find an event in the national day of action for nature, parks & green spaces. Organised by Community Planning Alliance. Supported by Chris Packham, Woodland Trust, National Federation of Parks & Green Spaces, CPRE, Badger Trust, Bat Conservation Trust, CIEEM. www.google.com/maps/d/edit?...
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18 April Day of Action for Nature, Parks & Green Spaces - Google My Maps
UK-wide Day of Action for Nature – Saturday 18 April Sign up https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc-oa2rxekhnYMB1OHdzK-mouysJ6-sSqW8oU7NWwcpWHO3MA/viewform On the day: - Upload photos of your ev...
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Upload photos of your green space at risk and your event today to our Community Planning Alliance gallery: vote-for-nature.org #VoteForNature
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"WTF?!" said Badger, Ratty, Toad and Mole
We live in one of the most nature-depleted lands. It doesn't have to be this way. We can build 3 million+ homes without touching any green spaces.
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Today is the national day of action for nature, parks & green spaces. 220 community groups are taking part. #VoteForNature www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
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Thousands to protest Keir Starmer's 'once-in-a-generation threat' to nature
People will protest against Labour's development plans at over 190 locations in the UK on Saturday.
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Just Space @justspace7.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
For the national housing demomnstration today 18 April we'll meet round our new banner in the garden of Soho Square about 1300h. The message is squarely in line with our new Alternative Plan for London Justspace.org.uk/CaringCity Read on the way.
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Caring City
The Just Space Alternative Plan for a caring city has been created by many Londoners working in small groups and larger discussions. There is a printed version and a PDF version which you can downl…
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Our national day of action for nature, parks and green spaces on 18th April has 105 groups signed up! More info here: communityplanningalliance.org/events-calen... Map of actions: www.google.com/maps/d/edit?... Actions are non disruptive.
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18 April Day of Action for Nature, Parks & Green Spaces - Google My Maps
UK-wide Day of Action for Nature – Saturday 18 April All links and info here: https://communityplanningalliance.org/events-calendar/
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
One last thing, the free zones rollout came with secondary legislation, meaning zero Parliamentary debate, zero public consultation, and zero notification of the press, this is why next to no one in the UK has heard of free zones. open.substack.com/pub/european...
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LBC’s Forest City Lovefest: How the Spiked Network Sold a Libertarian Dream as Community Housing
On 5 December 2025, LBC’s Ali Miraj gave Austin Williams 45 minutes of unchallenged airtime to promote Forest City 1, a proposed million-person city on 45,000 acres between Newmarket and Haverhill in ...
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The Tories and Labour colluded on a nationwide rollout of free zones not long after Brexit. 12 Freeports - 8 in England, 2 in Scotland, 2 in Wales. 74 SEZs - 48 in England, 18 in Scotland, 8 in Wales. 5 AI Growth Zones Thread/Explainer open.substack.com/pub/european...
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Public Warning: Charter-City and Free-Zone Developments Carry Documented Risks to Communities
This is a public-interest warning, not an allegation against any named individual or organisation.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Numerous right-wing think tanks and organisations back Forest City 1, and also Dame Patricia Hewitt (former Labour Secretary of State for Trade and Industry). The Guardian also loves Forest City 1. open.substack.com/pub/european...
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URGENT WARNING: Forest City 1 and the Charter City Agenda
This is not a housing development. This is a pilot project for privatised governance.
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
The Community Planning Alliance is organising a national day of action for nature, parks and green spaces on 18th April. Already we have 60 groups signed up. Find out more here: communityplanningalliance.org/events-calen...
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CPA Events Calendar - Community Planning Alliance
On Saturday April 18th, just ahead of the local elections in May, groups and communities across the UK will be taking part in a UK-wide Day of Action for
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Could this Government get any further from solving the housing crisis? This takes the biscuit - selling affordable homes to private buyers: inews.co.uk/news/housing...
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Labour plans to sell off 'affordable homes' at higher price to private buyers
Developers claim thousands of affordable new-build homes are left empty because councils and housing associations are not buying them
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Mark Avery @markavery.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Guest blog - Blanket bogs and windfarms by @green--jenny.bsky.social Blog: markavery.info/2025/10/30/g... #peat #bog #turbines #renewable #climate #walshaw #hebden #haworth #floods #petition #PIB
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
If only in the UK too
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Smart Growth UK @smartgrowthuk.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
The Community Planning Alliance has launched a tracker to record every piece of countryside that is being rated #GreyBelt under the Government plan to destroy the effectiveness of green belt protection. Please fill in as much of the form as you can and submit it. tinyurl.com/yrczfc6h
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Grey Belt Tracker
The Green Belt is at great risk under the 'grey belt' rules. We want to keep an eye on countryside and farmland that is being designated as 'grey belt'. Originally, when Sir Keir Starmer promised to p...
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Smart Growth UK @smartgrowthuk.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Yes, we know. Developers don't want to build them. Not enough workers or materials. Financiers don't want to invest. Sprawl-type development is highly destructive. But... ministers have sold their souls to Tufton Street's #YimbyLobby. Time for a rethink. tinyurl.com/4up9bc73
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Government set to miss 1.5m target, housebuilders warn
Housebuilders tell the government's budget watchdog the new homes target for England is too optimistic.
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Quiz question: which of these two pictures is 'grey belt'? Answer: they both could be. See our 'Greying the Green Belt' report. www.communityplanningalliance.org/latest-news....
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The Planning & Infrastructure Bill contains very alarming 'cash to trash' proposals. 2nd Reading 24th March. Here's an email you can send to your MP mailchi.mp/471f11cf1274... #TeamBat #TeamNewt
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Clare L @batecology.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
One of my bat groups absolutely love this. We're tempted to all wear the tee shirts and protest outside Downing Street with bat calls on a loud hailer. 1000 big flags of this design carried about in protest would be epic. Let's make it happen 🦇🤓
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Dr Charlie Gardner @charliejgardner.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The world we've built is not adapted to the world we've created
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More than 150 ‘unprecedented’ climate disasters struck world in 2024, says UN
Floods, heatwaves and supercharged hurricanes occurred in hottest climate human society has ever experienced
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
We also now have Team Bat Team Newt t-shirts, caps and badges! Buy here: www.redhotsource.co.uk/communitypla... Petition pending. National Team Bat Team Newt day of action in the spring! #TeamBat #TeamNewt Let's celebrate ALL of nature
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Our government needs to wake up to the fact that they are not solving the housing crisis - they're just handing easier planning permissions to housebuilders. Learn from Austria www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...
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Why half of the population of Vienna live in social housing
Social housing schemes in Austria have created affordable, quality residential buildings and a sense of community. Here’s what we British could learn from them
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Mrs. Ironside @mrsironside.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Always and forever.
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Dr Frankie Boyd @frankieboyd.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
🙌YES! A plan with wings (and feet? do newts have feet?)
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Another great letter from @johnrworrall.bsky.social
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
We also now have Team Bat Team Newt t-shirts, caps and badges! Buy here: www.redhotsource.co.uk/communitypla... Petition pending. National Team Bat Team Newt day of action in the spring! #TeamBat #TeamNewt Let's celebrate ALL of nature
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Community Planning Alliance - redHotsource
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Judy Webb @judywebb.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I'm with Rosie. Team bat and Team Newt always, until my last breath. Who else is with us?
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The Mindful Narrowboat @themindfulnb.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
There are so many better ways to create homes without taking the homes of our wildlife. Team Bat and Team Newt have the answers, let's get our government to join the team too!
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Smart Growth UK @smartgrowthuk.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
BLOG This is a shout-out to national environmental bodies to form a united front to campaign for a positive future, in the face of the blizzard of unsustainable government policies. smartgrowthuk.org/uncategorize...
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Dangerous times need a united front – Smart Growth UK
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Team Bat & Team Newt vs Team Destroy Nature I know which team I'm on
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Except it can't write laws by itself. I wish everyone would actually read the Bill and hurrah for a presumption in favour of community solar! That's good growth that everyone should support
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New Economics Foundation @neweconomics.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Expanding airports are not a silver bullet for economic growth - and the damage it would incur is massive. @chaitanyakumar in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Screengrab from Guardian. Text reads: Chaitanya Kumar, the head of environment policy at the New Economics Foundation thinktank, questioned the chancellor’s apparent faith in airport expansion as a means of generating growth, however.

“Expanding our airports will not produce the economic growth that Rachel Reeves so desperately wants. The government’s plan suggests they haven’t done their homework or they would know that more airport capacity will neither bring us benefits from more business travel or money from international tourists,” he said.
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Smart Growth UK @smartgrowthuk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
But what sort of "growth"? A malignant one? news.sky.com/story/politi...
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Politics latest: Growth 'a priority' over net zero, minister suggests
Sir Keir Starmer is vowing to take on "the NIMBYs" by reducing legal challenges to infrastructure building - with a new approach stopping "newts and bats" from blocking construction.
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Smart Growth UK @smartgrowthuk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The problem is not that environmentalists are legally challenging major infrastructure projects, it's that the projects being promoted need challenging environmentally. Airport expansion is a good example. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Legal challenges to UK infrastructure projects to be blocked in push for growth
Keir Starmer hopes his plan to ‘take the brakes off Britain’ will send a message to business to build more
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Smart Growth UK @smartgrowthuk.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Quite so.
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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Keir Starmer, your government promised bold action on climate and nature - but this isn’t it. ❌ It’s a move that risks tearing up our chances for a future where nature, people, and the economy thrive.
A screenshot of a news article from The Guardian with the headline: “Legal challenges to infrastructure plans to be blocked in Starmer growth push.” The subheading states that the Prime Minister hopes his plan to ‘take the brakes off Britain’ will encourage businesses to build more. Below the text is an aerial image of Heathrow Airport, showing multiple airplanes taxiing on runways and parked at gates. A caption notes cabinet-level resistance within the Labour Party to plans for a third runway at Heathrow. The source is credited as The Guardian in the bottom right corner.
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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Starmer is scared of taking real climate and nature action. That's why he is bullying his MPs It's why he bullied me in Daily Mail today too (see below) Most of the public want action to protect climate and nature, and he wasn't elected to do this He has got this badly wrong
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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
My understanding is that it’s almost unheard of for governments to mount a 3-line whip against a private members bill. Apart from once under the dreadful Johnson, it hasn’t been done since Thatcher.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
If true, what Labour front bench is doing is unforgivable. The #CANBill is essential & has backing of huge number of experts, scientists, unions & enjoys cross-party support. If backbench Labour MPs ever consider rebelling against leadership on anything, let it be this - a liveable future for all 👇
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Labour MPs ordered to sink landmark climate and environment bill
Exclusive: Supporters of bill say Labour has already insisted on removal of clauses requiring UK to meet targets agreed at Cop and other summits
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Smart Growth UK @smartgrowthuk.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Caption competition.
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Over 11,000 people have sent our Community Planning Alliance homesforeveryone.org report to their MP. Have you? Very easy to do via the link here
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Homes for Everyone
How to solve the housing crisis for people, nature and the climate.
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Terrible idea to tell regulators to regulate for growth not risk. I hope they'll push back strongly. Businesses are perfectly able to agitate for growth. Regulators need to ensure that this does not impact the environment, consumers, communities. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
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Reeves to tell regulators: strip back rules to boost growth
Attempting to force Whitehall to support the economy, Reeves will call in the heads of Britain’s largest regulators to the Treasury on Thursday
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
News that more young adults are living with parents means we should crack on with delivering Homes for Everyone: homesforeveryone.org What we don't need is proposals for ever more unaffordable executive boxes on greenfield
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Homes for Everyone
How to solve the housing crisis for people, nature and the climate.
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Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
The IPBES Nexus assessment is out. Guess what? It finds that water & food security, Nature, human health & climate change are all deeply connected with one another. We need a systems view to sort it all out (not work in the silos that presently perpetuate suboptimal outcomes). www.ipbes.net/nexus
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Nexus assessment | IPBES secretariat
Thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health The IPBES Plenary, at IPBES 7 (April/May 2019, Paris), adopted a new work programme (2019-2030; available here), fol...
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Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Insect decline is one of the most profoundly alarming symptoms of the declining health of Nature. It is most welcome that this step is to be taken www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Bee-harming pesticides' emergency approval will end, vows Defra
Planned legal changes will see three neonicotinoid pesticides completely banned from any future use.
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Tony Juniper @tonyjuniper.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Big debate for a long while about the causes of megafauna extinctions. This paper confirms the central role of humans. Of 57 mammal species over 1000kg that roamed the Earth during the late Pleistocene, 11 remain now (Elephants/Rhino etc). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene | Cambridge Prisms: Extinction | Cambridge Core
The late-Quaternary megafauna extinctions: Patterns, causes, ecological consequences and implications for ecosystem management in the Anthropocene - Volume 2
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Richard K Broughton @richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Hundreds of Bramblings killed by a fireworks display on New Years Eve. www.bta.bg/en/news/bulg... #ornithology #birding
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Hundreds of Bramblings Found Dead near Koprivshtitsa Likely Due to Fireworks
Hundreds of bramblings have died on New Year's Eve near Koprivshtitsa, Western Bulgaria, the NGO Green Balkans Federation told BTA on Thursday. The likely cause of death was stress caused by the firew...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/01/2025
Bus services cut disproportionately in deprived areas of England, study finds
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Bus services cut disproportionately in deprived areas of England, study finds
Most deprived areas suffer ten-fold bigger reduction, which in turn exacerbates deprivation People living in deprived areas of England have suffered disproportionately larger cuts to bus services, according research by a leading thinktank. The analysis…
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Restoring Ecosystems @restoring.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
#Migratory fish including #eel need coordinated efforts to secure their movement along rivers - either #FishPassages or #DamRemoval - And major improvements in #WaterQuality in #freshwater #ecosystems Oh, and no longer millions of #elvers as a ‘delicacy’! #GenerationRestoration
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Little Green Space @lgspace.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
A single 400-year-old ancient oak produces 234,000 litres of oxygen a year while soaking up carbon dioxide, and can support more than 2,000 species of bird, insect, fungus, and lichen. Nature is amazing - we need more of it, not less. Please repost if you agree 🌳
Old oak tree with twisted branches in autumn woodland of ancient oaks
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rosie400.bsky.social @rosie400.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Not like this. More like this... homesforeveryone.org
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Homes for Everyone
How to solve the housing crisis for people, nature and the climate.
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