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Living With the Virus Means Designing Innovative Public Spaces of the Future
New York City's High Line (Photo by Liz Ligon) Sponsored content from Knight Foundation. Sponsored content policy Though there has been much uncertainty over the past two years, one constant has been...
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Where a Free Meal for Food-Insecure Families Is Just a Text Away
(Photo courtesy of Bento) In May 2021, Chelsea Vasquez and her mother caught two metro buses from their Inglewood, California, home to St. John’s Well Child & Family Center clinic, where they had...
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How a Cincinnati Preschool Became Worker-Owned
Shine Nurture Center's worker-owners celebrate after the childcare center officially becomes worker-owned. (Photo courtesy of Co-op Cincy) Katie McGoron founded Shine Nurture Center — a childcare and...
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Philly Riders Get Trapped in Rail Stations After SEPTA ‘Hardens’ System to...
Signs posted on the doors of Center City Philadelphia's Jefferson Station at 11th and Filbert streets notify pedestrians of entrance changes. (Photo by Erin Blewett for Billy Penn) EDITOR’S NOTE: This...
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Hear Us: We Must Center Blackness in Housing
(Photo by Bethanie Hines for the Insight Center, June 2020) 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...
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How Detroit Artists Are Shaping Their City and Being Shaped by It
(Photo: JP Leong, Urban Consulate) Tashif “Sheefy McFly” Turner, born and raised in Detroit, is a multifaceted artist and independent entrepreneur. An alumni of the College for Creative Studies,...
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Can Art Bring Justice to Black Homeowners?
Tonika Johnson shows one of the landmarkers she installed in front of a home in Englewood. (Photo: Tonika Johnson) Social justice artist Tonika Lewis Johnson grew up in the Greater Englewood...
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Housing Briefs: Wells Fargo Denied Most Refinance Apps for Black Homeowners
(Photo by Mike Mozart/CC BY 2.0) Wells Fargo Denied More Than Half of Refinancing Applications From Black Homeowners A Bloomberg investigation found that Wells Fargo had approved refinanced mortgages...
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Climate Change – and Transformative Urban Leadership – Set to Shape Atlanta’s...
(Photo by Meg Laskey Buscema/Georgia State University) Sponsored content from Urban Studies Institute at Georgia State University. Sponsored content policy Atlanta is heating up. By 2050 the city will...
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Economics in Brief: White House Interns Will Be Paid for the First Time
(Photo: Radek Kucharski/CC BY 2.0) White House Allocates $4.5 Billion for Paid Internships — Expanding Access to Low-Income Applicants The Senate’s budget bill has allocated $4.5 million to fund the...
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Q&A: Getting Dollars Into the Communities Who Need it Most
(Photo courtesy of Marla Bilonick) Hispanic workers and small businesses received a good chunk of payroll payment protection loans from minority depository institutions and CDFIs (Community...
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Decolonizing Capital: A Crucial Step Towards Racial and Economic Justice
Kristell Guzman and kids at La Plazita preschool. (Photo courtesy of Kristell Guzman) For many parents, childcare defined the last two years. Working parents scrambled to afford adequate care while...
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People With Dementia Can Work on Farms in Holland
Care farm participants are responsible for an array of daily tasks. “They’re focused on what needs to get done that day, which is what takes them out of their current disease process.” (Credit:...
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This Baltimore Developer Is Breaking Down Barriers to Rebuild Communities
Bree Jones with members of her buyers' collective in front of one of Baltimore's rowhouses. (Photo courtesy of Parity Homes) Bree Jones rolls deep. Her nonprofit real estate firm, Parity Homes, has a...
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How a $266 Million Fund Aims to Help Native American Farmers
Toni Stanger-McLaughlin (Photo courtesy of Toni Stanger-McLaughlin) From a dramatically changing food retail landscape to worker shortages and supply chain issues, the agricultural industry was hit...
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A Virtuous Cash Grab: Albion Shows How Small Towns Can Thrive
The Boone County Trails System passes by the Albion water tower. The walking, running and biking trail is one of nearly a dozen major projects funded and built in Albion in the past two decades....
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Share Meals: An Efficient App Addresses Food Insecurity
At a free community cooking class, students enjoy homemade food that they helped create. (Photo courtesy of Jon Chin.) The Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center was founded in 2010 with the...
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What Is the True Impact of Your Organization?
(Photo by Nathaniel_U / CC BY 2.0) Getting capital into underserved communities is a deeply personal quest for Paige Chapel. The daughter of Eastern European immigrants, she watched the black...
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Habitat Net Zero: An Ambitious Plan to Rehab Abandoned Buildings in Queens
Mayor Eric Adams and Speaker Adrienne Adams return to the area where they grew up, highlighting investments in affordable housing (Photo courtesy of City Hall) On a block on 116th Avenue in Southeast...
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Housing Briefs: Federal Government Moves Eviction Funds to States in Need
(Photo: AP) Biden Administration Moves Eviction Prevention Funds to States With Need The federal government is shifting eviction prevention funds from states with unused dollars to states with a high...
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