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The House has voted to eliminate previously approved funding to public media. Here's what happens next, and how you can help protect HPR and all public media.

Balancing housing density with the need for trees

Cities across the nation and the world struggle with the dual challenges of building enough new housing for growing populations while also growing the tree canopy that makes that housing livable. This struggle is more apparent in Seattle than many people probably imagine. And yet, there are solutions within the city itself, as well as in communities far beyond Seattle’s city limits like Bellevue, Washington; Bozeman, Montana; and even Milan, Italy.

Bellamy Pailthorp of KNKX reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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