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The Weekly Wrap: Will San Francisco Get Its Own Housing Department?
A crane rises at a construction site for a new housing development in San Francisco, July 18, 2025. (Photo by Jeff Chiu / AP) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of stories that...
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What Rural Residents Can Learn From the Factory-Farm Rollout About Resisting...
Hogs feed in a pen in a concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO, on the Gary Sovereign farm, in Lawler, Iowa, on Oct. 31, 2018. (Photo by Charlie Neibergall / AP) This story was originally...
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How This CDFI Network Is Collaborating to Close the Racial Asset Gap
A member of the African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs speaks to fellow members during a conference. (Photo Courtesy of the African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs) Sponsored content from BARHII...
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Does Fresno Need a Dedicated Arts & Culture Department?
After an ex-Fresno Arts Council employee embezzled almost $2 million in art grant money, the City of Fresno has taken over administration of the annual Measure P competitive grants. (Photo by Julianna...
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A Critical Few Weeks Ahead for Community Development Finance
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks at a news conference, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at the Treasury Department in Washington. (Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP) It came down to the wire for...
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How Federal Park Grants Help Reshape American Cities: Fueling Local Economic...
Comiskey Park in Dubuque, Iowa. Sponsored content from City Parks Alliance. Sponsored content policy This is the first in a four-part series exploring how the Outdoor Recreation Legacy Partnership...
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The Weekly Wrap: NYC Releases Records Showing Officials Lied About Toxic Air...
A young boy looks at the Brooklyn 9/11 Wall of Remembrance during the annual Candlelight Ceremony in Coney Island on the eve of the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attacks,...
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The Most Important Sanctuary Policy Is a Data Retention Policy
This undated photo obtained from Immigration and Customs Enforcement shows a NeoScan 45 fingerprint scanner. The device, paired with an app known as EDDIE, is used by ICE to run remote ID checks. The...
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This Washington Town Is Burning – All According to Plan
A crew member hoses down vegetation to keep a prescribed fire from spreading outside of a designated parcel. Local leaders in the small town of Roslyn, Washington, have embraced prescribed burns as a...
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Data Center Permitting Models Are Forgetting About These Transportation Costs
Workers prepare a construction entrance to the Facebook data center that is being built in Sandston, Va., Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. (Photo by Steve Helber / AP) This op-ed is part of In the Shadow of...
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Can Light Rail Survive Vancouver, Washington’s New Bridge?
The aging I-5 bridge over the Columbia River between Vancouver, Washington, and Portland, Oregon. (Photo by Amal Ahmed) Jason Cromer has biked down the I-5 bridge between Portland, Oregon, and the...
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Housing Stability Is Good Climate Policy
(Illustration by Philip Oroni / Unsplash) This summer, Congress passed the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act with overwhelming bipartisan support. Recent state and local efforts underway from Montana...
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This Qualitative Framework Uncovers Community Needs
(Photo Courtesy of Culture & Community Power Fund) Sponsored content from The Culture & Community Power Fund. Sponsored content policy This sponsored series is created in partnership with The...
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The Weekly Wrap: The EPA Wants To Let Data Centers Skip Public Comment
Protesters gather outside the New Mexico Environment Department to voice opposition to the Project Jupiter data center during a demonstration in Santa Fe, N.M., Friday, Aug. 21, 2026. (Photo by Susan...
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These U.S. Cities Are Rewarding Careful Drivers With Fewer Red Lights
Vehicles stop along Lead Avenue where stoplights are set for a specific speed limit as part of the "rest on red" signal program in Albuquerque, N.M., Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (Photo by Susan Montoya...
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A New Legal Threat to Voucher Holders’ Housing Rights
The empty former Silky Jones location, in a building owned by Ithaca Renting Company and Jason Fane. (Photo by Casey Martin / The Ithaca Voice) This story was co-published in collaboration with...
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Charlottesville Built a Food Equity Plan. It Never Built the System To Carry...
(Photo courtesy Cultivate Charlottesville) On maps of food access in Charlottesville, the stretch of Carlton Avenue east of the railroad tracks isn’t classified as a food desert. But on a weekday...
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I’ve Visited More Than 200 Cities. Here’s What U.S. Cities Can Learn From the...
(Photo courtesy Ebony Walden) I stepped into the maze of stalls at Marché Sandaga in Dakar, where vendors holding vibrant indigo, crimson, and gold wax prints called out and urged me to enter their...
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Baltimore Is Rethinking What It Means To Call 911 — And Who Responds
Baltimore police coordinate in the area of a mass shooting incident in the Southern District of Baltimore, July 3, 2023. (Photo by Nathan Howard / AP) This article was originally published through a...
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The Weekly Wrap: More Cities Cancel Flock Contracts
A Flock Safety license plate reader is seen along a public road on Thursday, Oct. 16, 2025, in Houston. (Photo by David Goldman / AP) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of stories...
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