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Hot on IdealistNews: Homeless Families in Foreclosed Houses; Cat Sanctuaries; Technology for Iran

Compiled by Scott Stadum and Douglas Coulter.


Photo courtesy Flickr user respres IdealistNews is a project of Idealist.org and Reddit where users like you can submit nonprofit news stories from around the web and vote on your favorites. Here's a roundup of some recent hot stories (titled the way users submitted them):

• What to do with foreclosed houses—How about letting homeless families move in? An innovative idea that's also illegal.
• Banks have received 10 times more money in bailouts in the past year than poor countries have received in aid in the past 49 years.
• Butterfly Bamboo Homes Are Hope for Thai Orphans.
• Using Tor and Squid to loosen Iranian repression by proxy.
• TORRE ARGENTINA - Roman Cat Sanctuary - Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

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