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Hear Us: What’s Up With Inflation, and What Does It Mean for People of Color?
(Bet_Noire/iStock Photo) 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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How a Lucky Google Search Helped a Maine Nonprofit Put Down Roots
Tree Street Youth's 10th-anniversary celebration (Photo courtesy of Tree Street Youth) Julia Sleeper-Whiting celebrated an anniversary recently. This past summer marked 10 years of running the Tree...
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Cooperatively Owned Builder Sees Affordable Housing, Climate Action in...
Evanston Development Cooperative's affordable housing project with the city of Evanston, Illinois (Photo courtesy of Evanston Development Cooperative) Aaron and Diane Barnhart knew they wanted to sell...
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Housing in Brief: Eviction Cases Are Ramping Up in NYC
A Manhattan protest in 2016 (Photo by Informed Images / CC BY-NC 2.0) Eviction Cases Ramping Up in NYC After Moratorium Ends NYC’s housing court is deluged with new eviction cases six weeks after the...
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Women of Color Are Leading Climate Justice Work
Demonstrators march to stop climate change in November 2021 in New York City. (Photo by John Lamparski/NurPhoto via AP) Originally published by The 19th When winter storm Uri hit Houston last...
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Youth Criminal Justice Gets ‘Community Review’ in Minnesota
St. Paul is the Ramsey County seat. (Photo by Harshil Shah / CC BY-ND 2.0) Since before John Choi became Minnesota’s Ramsey County Attorney in 2011 — back when he was a city attorney for St. Paul, the...
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Economics in Brief: Yes Votes for Public Bank in Philly, REI Workers’ Union...
(Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) Philadelphia Passes Bill to Establish Public Bank In a vote of 15-1, Philadelphia City Council moved closer to establishing a municipally owned public bank. As Next City...
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Richmond Muralist Wants People to ‘Find Themselves’ in Her Work
Austin "Auz" Miles's mural at Sankofa Community Orchard (Photo courtesy of Happily Natural Day/Duron Chavis) For Richmond-based artist Austin “Auz” Miles, the impact of her work is right there in the...
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N.Y. Bill Could Stop Massage Parlor Raids
(Photo by Michael Förtsch / Unsplash) There are 36 licensed professions in the state of New York — including architect, midwife and athletic trainer. The education department and attorney general are...
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A Bicycle Is an Anti-Poverty Machine
Mariangel Romero with her family — and her bike — in Galapa. (Photo courtesy of World Bicycle Relief) Every morning in Galapa, a small town on the outskirts of Barranquilla, Colombia, Jorge Romero...
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San Diego’s Unlikely Inspiration for Social Change? The Circus
Fern Street Circus performers (Photo by Gary Payne) The City Heights neighborhood of San Diego is known for its incredibly diverse community, including Latino, Vietnamese, Somali, Cambodian and...
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Bill Could Lift Looming Deportation Threat
(Photo by Activedia / Pixabay) Ge Vang’s family — including his father, who was recruited to fight for the U.S. at age 15 during the Vietnam War — immigrated to the United States when he was just...
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Bronx Tenants Celebrate Step to Becoming ‘Self-Landlords’
Tenants of a South Bronx apartment building and housing justice advocates celebrated on Friday, March 4. (Photo by Roshan Abraham) On Friday, March 4, about a dozen tenants and advocates stood in...
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Housing in Brief: 3 Million Evictions Avoided During the Pandemic
(Mural artist unknown; photo by Dave R / CC BY-NC 2.0) Fastest-Growing Midwest Landlord Evicted Tenants Throughout Pandemic at Alarming Rate Bloomberg CityLab published an investigation showing that...
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How a Nondescript Box Has Been Saving Lives
Building a Corsi-Rosenthal box portable air filter comes down to duct-taping together a set of furnace filters and a box fan. (Photo by Douglas Hannah/CC BY-ND) One afternoon, a dozen Arizona State...
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How This Visionary New Orleans Planner Is Reimagining Community Development
Dasjon Jordan (Photo by JP Leong, Urban Consulate) Sponsored content from Urban Consulate. Sponsored content policy What is the future we want, and how are we building it together? In this episode of...
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Economics in Brief: NYC Announces Settlement with For-Profit College, $20M...
For-profit Berkeley College agreed to a settlement canceling $20 million in loan debt for former students. (Photo by Fábio Gianesi / CC BY 2.0) NYC Announces Settlement with For-Profit College, $20M...
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Denver’s Paratransit Service Expansion Includes Groceries, On-Demand Rides
An Access-a-Ride vehicle transporting a passenger in Denver. (Photo courtesy of the Regional Transportation District) Forty-four years ago Denver’s sole public transit provider had not a single...
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Philadelphia Students Learn the Business of Cheesemaking
W.B. Saul High School student Asjah Thomas pets a cow at the high school in Philadelphia, on November 12, 2020. (Photo courtesy of Governor Tom Wolf/Commonwealth Media Services / CC BY 2.0) In the...
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We Sat Through an 8-Hour Bank Merger Hearing So You Didn’t Have To
A Union Bank branch in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles (Photo by Downtowngal / CC-BY-SA-3.0) For nearly eight hours last Tuesday, federal banking regulators sat quietly on a virtual...
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