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On the left: a young girl smiling next to a laptop, which has coding on it and a window of a close up of a tick. On the right: A screenshot of the DETICKIT app.

Teen wins Princess Diana Award for tick-detecting app, Prince William praises: 'My mother would be immensely proud'

After being diagnosed with two rare tick-borne illnesses, a high schooler took matters into her own hands.

Three people from the Father Joe's Villages bike-riding group take their bikes for a spin in San Diego

'Earn-a-bike' program gives San Diego's homeless their own ride after 100 miles

Participants have logged thousands of miles in the program's decade-long history.

On the left, a table of three men at a table playing a paper based board game. On the right: a man smiles across from a woman as he reaches to pull a card from a board game.

Nonprofit uses board game, RPG simulator to help people better understand homelessness

Housing Hustle and the Homeless Experience Simulation use gameplay and real-life personas to put players in the shoes of their unhoused neighbors.

A woman walks in a parking lot, her back turned to the camera. She is wearing a neon yellow high-visibility vest that reads "Montana Bar Fairies"

How volunteer 'bar fairies' incentivize safety in the state with the worst drunk driving rates

The undercover “fairies” celebrate those who have chosen a safe ride home.

A row of tiny houses painted in bright colors

High school students build tiny houses for homeless neighbors in construction class

Students at Sedro-Woolley High School are part of the solution when it comes to housing Seattle’s most vulnerable.

Australian surfer Josh Kerr wears a wetsuit on the beach, overlooking the water. He holds a surfboard made from recycled wind turbines

Second wind: Retired wind turbine blades recycled into innovative surfboards

Pro surfer Josh Kerr has partnered with renewable energy company ACCIONA to create the prototype.

On the left: a white mansion framed by trees and a blue sky. On the right: Travis Kelce, a white man with a beard and mustache wearing a white baseball cap smiles.

Travis Kelce transforms $3.3M mansion into transitional housing for homeless youth

The nonprofit, Foster Love, helps young adults who aged out of foster care find permanent housing during the “transitional ages” of 18 to 24.

A green art sculpture depicting a blanket, backpack, and homeless person leaning up against a wall on a city street.

New study reveals unifying theme behind homelessness — and it's not drug use

Although addiction and mental health disorders are shared struggles for many people experiencing homelessness, there is another trait that unifies unhoused people.

House W, a tiny home covered in solar panels and timber, sits on a snowy plateau in Japan

This net-zero tiny home generates almost double the energy it needs — here's how

House W utilizes a ‘solar skin’ of 56 panels to generate all the off-grid energy it needs — and more.

A woman stands in the entrance of a tiny home made from a decommissioned wind turbine nacelle at Dutch Design Week

Decommissioned wind turbine redesigned as eco-friendly tiny home, scalable to build '2,000 houses a year'

Designers estimate that thousands of wind turbines worldwide will be decommissioned in the coming years, offering a “gold mine” of new resources.

A vending machine carrying naloxone and xylazine test strips sits in an outdoor courtyard at Father Joe's Villages of San Diego

San Diego vending machines aim to curb 'tranq' overdoses in homeless shelters

Along with offering naloxone, these vending machines provide life-saving test strips, in an effort to decrease accidental overdoses.

A discarded needle sits on a city street

A large majority of homeless people in California are not actually illicit drug users, study finds

The study, published in JAMA last month, examined the relationship between homelessness and substance use.