Portland’s Violence Interrupters Struggle To Keep a Steady Foothold
(Illustration by Tara Anand / Bolts) This story originally appeared in Bolts and is republished with permission. In 2020, when Fernando was shot twice in the street outside the old Portland Meadows...
View ArticleDetroit’s Seniors Joined a Time Bank For Help. They Became Its Biggest Helpers.
Time bank members helping fix a senior's porch in Southwest Detroit. (Photo courtesy of Unity in Our Community TimeBank) “It is easier to pick up a phone and get a ride to the airport than ask your...
View ArticleThese Tenants Got Rid of Negligent Landlords. Now They Want to Own Their...
Tenants at the sale of the apartment buildings. (Photo Courtesy of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board) In New York City, the Community Opportunity to Purchase (COPA) bill is being presented for the...
View ArticleWhere Did All of Your City’s Public Bathrooms Go?
History professor Bryant Simon is the author of the new book, For Customers Only: Public Bathrooms and the Making of American Inequality. (Photo by Joseph Labolito / Temple University) Once upon a...
View ArticleThe Weekly Wrap: CDFI Fund Proposes Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Minority...
The seal of the Treasury Department is pictured before Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent arrives to speak at a news conference, Monday, Aug. 24, 2026, at the Treasury Department in Washington. (Photo...
View ArticleMemphis Home Repair Programs Are Struggling To Keep Up With Seniors’ Needs
Ms. Carolyn sits for a portrait in the living room of her home. (Photo by Kevin Wurm / MLK50 / CatchLight Local / Report For America) This story was produced by MLK50: Justice Through Journalism as...
View ArticleWill the ROAD to Housing Act Actually Boost America’s Housing Supply?
(Photo by Avel Chuklanov / Unsplash) This story was co-published in collaboration with Shelterforce, the only independent, non-academic publication covering the worlds of affordable housing, community...
View ArticleHow Cities Can Build More Housing Without Destroying the Boreal Forest
(Photo by Annie Spratt / Unsplash) For a nation in the grip of a housing affordability crisis, the bipartisan 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act — the first major overhaul of housing legislation in more...
View ArticleAn Indigenous Fashion Show Marks a New Chapter for NYC’s Urban Natives
The second annual Indigenous New York Fashion Week featured 30 Indigenous designers and 120 Indigenous models, as well as all Indigenous-led hair, makeup and production teams. (Photos by Oscar Perry...
View ArticleProvidence Will Vote on a First-Of-Its-Kind Divestment Initiative in November
Activists hang a placard from a window of an upper floor of a building at Rhode Island School of Design, Tuesday, May 7, 2024, in Providence, Rhode Island. Students and supporters, who had taken over...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleDoes 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleData 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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