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San Antonio Food Incubator Stirs Up New Culinary Businesses
Tracie Shelton (Photo courtesy Tracie Shelton) Tracie Shelton is the founding force behind Alamo Kitchens, a culinary co-working space in San Antonio, Texas. Shelton was already motivated to help...
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San Diego Trolley Extension Off to Good Start
The Blue Line in San Diego (still courtesy San Diego MTS) Welcome to “The Mobile City,” our weekly roundup of noteworthy transportation developments. Blue Line Extension Opening Produces Strong...
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San Francisco Will Open a Safe Site For People Living In RVs, But It Could...
This Thursday, June 27, 2019, file photo shows Shanna Couper Orona interviewed outside of her RV parked along a street in San Francisco. The number of people living in RVs or cars in November 2021...
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Housing in Brief: A $64 Million Vote for Social Housing Passes in San Francisco
(Photo by terencechisholm / Public Domain) $64 million Social Housing Vote Passes in San Francisco A measure to set aside $64 million for social housing was approved by the city’s Board of Supervisors...
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Pueblo’s Libraries Are Thriving Thanks to Equity-Focused, People-Powered...
Oliver, 3, got hands-on with “Play with Clay” by Jenny Pinkerton (Photo courtesy Pueblo Library). In the spring of 2021, students in Pueblo, Colorado were struggling. A year of online school had left...
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Economics in Brief: Labor Board Orders Amazon to Hold Unionization Vote Do-Over
In this March 30, 2021 file photo, a banner encouraging workers to vote in labor balloting is shown at an Amazon warehouse in Bessemer, Ala. A labor official is confirming a new union election for...
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Need Last-Minute Funding? This Philadelphia Nonprofit Will Get You the Money...
(Photo by vic15 / CC BY 2.0) Rev. Michelle Anne Simmons is the CEO of Why Not Prosper, a nonprofit in Philadelphia that provides transitional housing for formerly incarcerated women. She was desperate...
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CDFI Helps Indigenous Entrepreneurs Thrive During (and After) COVID-19
(Courtesy Big Sky Cafe) In April 2020, as many small businesses scrambled to figure out how to keep the lights on during the sudden onset of COVID-19, Suzanne Racine was instead laying the groundwork...
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Facing Eviction from an Urban Farm, Baltimore Activists Continue Their Fight...
(Photo by form PxHere) A 1.5-acre fenced-in plot of land in the heart of South Baltimore’s isolated Cherry Hill neighborhood currently lies barren, its fields exhausted from growing nearly 3,200...
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Old Duluth Hotel Sees New Life as Housing for At-Risk Seniors
Ribbon cutting at the St. Francis Apartments, which will offer over 40 units and supportive services. (Photo courtesy CHUM) In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, many cities and nonprofits...
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‘Nudges’ Can Reduce Plastic Bag Use Even Where Bans or Fees are Banned
(Photo by Gilbert Mercier / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Across the country, numerous states or municipalities have imposed restrictions to discourage the single-use plastic bags you might use while picking up...
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Why This “Amazon TIF” Isn’t the Sweetheart Deal It Sounds Like
(Photo by Shreveport-Bossier Convention and Tourist Bureau / CC BY 2.0) The terms “Amazon” and “Tax increment financing,” the popular but frequently abused tool to subsidize development, in the same...
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Why High Uber Fees Mean a Less Inclusive Health Care Industry
(Photo via Uber) When the Justice Department sued Uber last month, it was because the company was overcharging wait fees for people with disabilities who need more than two minutes to enter their...
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Could Ending ‘Image Deserts’ Create More Sustainable Local News?
CatchLight fellow Felix Uribe photographing a group of men in the Tenderloin, San Francisco. (Photo by Sebastian Hidalgo, courtesy CatchLight) In 2018, a visual journalist named Yesica Prado was...
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Transit Agencies Pivot to Equity and Recoup Ridership
The GRTC bus in Richmond, Virginia (Photo by Echo • Photo • A/V / CC BY-NC 2.0) Welcome to “The Mobile City,” our weekly roundup of noteworthy transportation developments. Transit Agencies Find That...
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LISC Moves the Needle on Jobs and Poverty with Financial Opportunity Centers
Jane Addams Resource Corporation (JARC) of Chicago is a leading expert in job training, offering a manufacturing bridge program to un- and underemployed adults while similtaneously helping them raise...
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St. Paul Unveils App to Help Unsheltered Residents Get Help
(Screenshot courtesy City of St. Paul) In August of 2020, in the midst of the pandemic, the number of unsheltered people in Saint Paul, Minnesota, rose to 380. The seasonal high, previously, had been...
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Housing in Brief: Nearly 1500 Unhoused LA Residents Died On The Street During...
(Photo by Laurie Avocado / CC BY 2.0) Report Says Nearly 1500 Unhoused LA Residents Died On the Street During Pandemic A report published by the UCLA Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy found...
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How Artists Are Unapologetically Building Black Futures, Today
(JP Leong, Urban Consulate) Sponsored content from Urban Consulate. Sponsored content policy A landmark tower and factory, vacant for 20 years, in the historic Black neighborhood of Orange Mound in...
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Economics in Brief: Kellogg Union Workers Reject Tentative Deal
Striking Kellogg's workers Michael Rodarte, Sue Griffin, Michael Elliott, Eric Bates and Mark Gonzalez stand outside the Omaha, Neb., cereal plant Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. The union rejected a proposed...
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