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Whatever Happened to… Syracuse Eviction Prevention, NYC Mobile Methadone, and...
The adoption of the Eviction Prevention Program in Syracuse slowed due to the moratorium in place amid the pandemic. (Photo by John Marino / CC BY 2.0) Next City has covered some of the best...
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NYC Funded a Pilot to Make Basement Apartments Safer, But Then It Went Off Track
A man who gave his name as John helps to clean a friend's basement, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, in Queens, New York. The area was flooded Wednesday as rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida sent the New...
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Report Shows There’s Still a Hole that Needs Filling in Baltimore’s Transit...
A new report found that average commute times are significantly longer in Baltimore's "Black Butterfly" than its "White L", and that public transit doesn't serve those living in the outer parts of the...
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4 Lessons From Berlin Organizers’ Campaign to Re-Nationalize 250,000 Apartments
June 25, 2021, Berlin: Supporters of the initiative "Expropriate Deutsche Wohnen & Co." show the number of signatures collected (349658) for a referendum on the expropriation of large real estate...
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L.A.’s New Reflective Streets Bounce Heat Back Into Space
(Photo courtesy of StreetsLA) When the scientists aboard the International Space Station direct their thermal camera at Los Angeles, standing out from the sweltering red and orange blob is a crescent...
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Hear Us: Cities Are Working to End Another Legacy of Slavery — ‘At Will’...
(Illustration by sam scipio) EDITOR’S NOTE: “Hear Us” is a column series that features experts of color and their insights on issues related to the economy and racial justice. Follow us here and at...
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Housing in Brief: Federal Housing Spending Might Be Cut From Biden’s $3.5...
Home repair in Detroit (Photo via Renew Detroit) Federal Housing Spending Might Be Cut From Biden’s $3.5 Trillion Budget President Biden’s $3.5 trillion spending plan may be pared down to $2 trillion...
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The Radical Shift in Drug Treatment Happening Inside California Prisons
California Rehabilitation Center Warden Glen E. Pratt with Integrated Substance Use Disorder Treatment (ISUDT) Cognitive Behavioral Interventions (CBI) Life Skills graduate and class Valedictorian...
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Economics in Brief: NYC Taxi Drivers and 50 Elected Officials Reject “Banker...
Bhairavi Desai, executive director of NY Taxi Workers Alliance, at the protest Oct 13. (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) NYC Taxi Drivers and 50 Elected Officials Reject “Banker Bailout” Elected officials...
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A Major Federal Response to Occupational Extreme Heat Is Here At Last
Workers exposed to excess heat on the job are more likely than average Americans to be low-income, to be immigrants, to have chronic health problems, to lack health insurance or to live in...
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Once a Bus That Transported Incarcerated People Around Rikers, Now a Gorgeous...
(Photo courtesy People's Bus) In honor of National Voter Registration Day this September, a transformed city bus — formerly used to transport people detained on Rikers Island — rolled into Flatbush,...
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80% of Food Businesses Fail. This Partnership at MIT Is Changing the Game
Carolina Garcia and Carolina Salinas of "Carolicious" (Tory Preston-Djamboe for CommonWealth Kitchen) Carolicious founders Carolina Garcia and Carolina Salinas immigrated to the Boston area in 2015,...
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An “Exchange Program With a Twist” Lets Teens Experience a Different America
American Exchange Project students, including Maëlys Ciezki, right, at Ananda Farms in Half Moon Bay, CA (Photo courtesy The American Exchange Project) A new pilot domestic exchange program is...
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Locked Up and Finding Their Way Together
(Photo by Rita Earl Blackwell, courtesy Reasons to be Cheerful) Jon Grobman was certain he would never again see the world beyond the walls of Lancaster’s maximum-security prison. In 2005, the former...
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Startup Marries Community Lending to AI
(Photo by Cytonn Photography on Unsplash) Camino Financial was founded in 2015 with $100 million in capital to focus on a thin but growing slice of an especially underfunded community: Latinx...
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What Is Trauma-Informed Design?
(Photo/ Arroyo Village) For many of us, the global lockdowns stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic have made our homes places of respite, healing, and renewal. But for many others, including the...
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Derailment Sidelines 60 Percent of Washington Metro Railcar Fleet
WMATA has pulled all its 7000-series railcars out of service for a safety issue caused by wheels slipping out of alignment. (Photo by nevermindtheend / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Welcome to “The Mobile City,”...
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Norfolk Is Offering Free Plans To Incentivize Missing Middle Development
Rendering of what a parcel with missing middle housing could look like on Granby Street, one of Norfolk's main streets (Rendering via Missing Middle Pattern Book) Tucked into the southern end of the...
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Housing in Brief: KC Tenants Fighting for Community Control of Affordable...
Members of KC Tenants at a protest last week (via @KCTenants Twitter) Kansas City Tenants Push For Tenant Control Of Affordable Housing Funds Kansas City, Missouri Mayor Quinton Lucas is facing...
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The Gap Where Marijuana Convictions Hurt Most
(Photo: NappyStock) As 19 states across the country have legalized recreational marijuana in the past decade, many activists also called on lawmakers to expunge or seal convictions for marijuana...
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