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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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If you live in other Tulare County communities such as Seville, Monson and so many others, the tragic, current reality is that the water coming out of your taps or showerheads may not be safe.

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U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development State Director Kim Dolbow Vann joined with Self-Help Enterprises (SHE) Monday to celebrate National Homeownership Month and honor 10 families who have completed building each other’s homes.

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Community members, local activists and advocacy organizations met last week to discuss sustainable groundwater markets at a roundtable in Visalia.

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People living in Tulare and Kern counties will have a new car sharing service that will take them where they need to go while reducing air pollution in the Central Valley.
Miocar is an electric vehicle car sharing service which is being rolled out in small cities like Dinuba, Orosi, Wasco and Arvin.

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Sixteen nonprofits whose mission is to improve the quality of life for Tulare County youth received a total of $95,000 from the Tulare County Board of Supervisors last week

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California State Treasurer Fiona Ma kicked-off a 10-city housing regulatory tour today by announcing that $52.5 million in annual federal tax credits and $53.3 million in total state tax credits have been approved for the construction and rehabilitation of affordable housing units in California, including Pomona and Inglewood in Los Angeles County.

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Water is a currency in California, and the low-income farmworkers who pick the Central Valley’s crops know it better than anyone. They labor in the region’s endless orchards, made possible by sophisticated irrigation systems, but at home their faucets spew toxic water tainted by arsenic and fertilizer chemicals.

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