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Housing in Brief: Remote Workers Driving Up Home Sale Prices?
(Photo by mastersenaiper/Pixabay) Report: Out of Town Buyers in Key Cities Have Nearly 30% More for Home Purchases Than Locals Buyers moving from out of town in 2021 said they had way more cash on...
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Armed With More Resources, American Cities Seek to Create an Equitable...
Community leaders talk with residents about the future of Summit Lake Park in Akron, Ohio. (Photo by Tim Fitzwater) Sponsored content from Knight Foundation. Sponsored content policy The rapid spread...
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Philadelphia Bill Would Establish First Ever Municipal Public Bank Entity
Philadelphia City Hall (Photo by ByteForByte / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) After coming into office in 2016, the first bill Philadelphia City Council Member Derek Green passed was a resolution to initiate...
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Economics in Brief: University Climate Activists Fight for Fossil Fuel...
(Photo by niekverlaan / Pixabay) University Climate Activists Fight for Fossil Fuel Divestment Students at Yale, Princeton, Stanford, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Vanderbilt have filed...
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Home-Based Daycares Could Be the Answer to Atlanta’s Childcare Woes
(Photo by Nenad Stojkovic / CC BY 2.0) Compared to other wealthy nations, the U.S. is a dramatic outlier in how it funds—or rather, does not fund—childcare. The government contributes about $500 per...
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Baltimore Market Redevelopment Project Thinks Local
A rendering of the new Lexington Market in Baltimore (Image courtesy of BCT Design Group) Lexington Market is a Baltimore icon. The 240-year-old food market still stands at its original site in...
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Facing Trauma to Manage Money Better
(Photo by Towfiqu barbhuiya/Unsplash) When it comes to financial literacy, many programs teach about savings, loans, debt, mortgages or money management. One topic that doesn’t come up: trauma. That...
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New York Can Lead in Reimagining Public Safety. Here’s How.
A Rochester, New York, program will dispatch unarmed, community-based response to people dealing with substance abuse or mental health crises. (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) We are nearing two years...
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‘Green Girls’ Take on Climate Change
(Photo by Sean Jamar/Courtesy of CityParks Green Girls Empowered by ING) Maysa Maryam, a high school junior who lives in the Bronx, hadn’t had much experience with the Bronx River, the only freshwater...
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Q&A: How CDFIs Can Help Bridge the Interests of Communities and Investors
Amir Kirkwood (Photo courtesy of Amir Kirkwood) In 2006, CDFI Virginia Community Capital (VCC) was founded with $15 million in seed money from the state of Virginia to fund economic growth in...
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How Oakland Anti-Displacement Advocates Use Carbon Emissions Cash
California state capitol (Photo by Andre m / CC BY-SA 3.0) When residents of Deep East Oakland are faced with eviction, they will have a few new faces to rely on — thanks to California climate policy...
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Housing in Brief: NYC Mayor Increases Policing of Homelessness on the Subway
NYC Mayor Eric Adams speaks at the Subway Safety Plan announcement. (Photo by Marc A. Hermann, MTA / CC BY 2.0) NYC Mayor Increases Policing of Homelessness on the Subway At a joint press conference...
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‘Who’s Benefiting?’ As Chinatown Gentrifies, Rail Park Begins Equitable...
The Rail Park's first completed section in Philadelphia (Photo by The West End / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published by WHYY’s PlanPhilly, and appears here as part of...
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Entrepreneurship Can Revitalize Neighborhoods in Need — by Scaling Deep
(Photo by Pexels / Pixabay) Research recently published by Harvard Business Review finds that entrepreneurship has the power to revitalize impoverished communities — if policymakers shift their focus...
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“Power is All Over”: How this Philanthropic Leader is Reimagining Broken Systems
(Photo by JP Leong, Urban Consulate) Sponsored content from Urban Consulate. Sponsored content policy In this new episode of Urban Consulate Confidential featuring Black city-builders across the U.S.,...
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Economics in Brief: Amid Rising Poverty Rates, States Allow $5.2 Billion in...
(Credit: photoo.uk/ via freeforcommercialuse.org #FFCU) States are Unnecessarily Holding on to $5.2 Billion in TANF Funds States are using their discretionary powers to stockpile nearly $5.2 billion...
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The Alpine Country Going All-You-Can-Ride
The Wien Hauptbahnhof, or Vienna's main train station, is in the Favoriten district and links major railway lines from the north, east, south and west, and replacing the old Wien Südbahnhof terminus....
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This Platform Wants to Disrupt the Payday Lending Industry
(Photo by Taber Andrew Bain / CC BY 2.0) More than 7 million U.S. households are unbanked, which means no one living in that household has a checking or savings account, according to an FDIC survey....
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Small Business Support Hits the Streets in Philadelphia
Biz on Wheels in Philadelphia (Photo courtesy of The Enterprise Center) Throughout the pandemic, as The Enterprise Center helped Philadelphia small business owners with their PPP (Paycheck Protection...
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Will Monuments Honoring People of Color Replace Old Statues of Confederate...
Philadelphia's statue of Octavius Catto, outside City Hall (Photo by Jared Brey) With most of the legal challenges resolved after the violent Unite the Right rally, and the statue of Robert E. Lee...
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