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Two Years After Tornado, Nashville Is Rebuilding With Equity in Mind
(Photo courtesy of FUSE) Sponsored content from FUSE. Sponsored content policy The night of March 3, 2020, Nashville may never forget. At least 10 tornadoes touched down in parts of Tennessee late in...
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Test Plots in Los Angeles Parks Grow More Than Native Crops: A Community of...
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Philly Fund Looks to Diversify the Construction Industry
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Brooklyn Tenants of Neglected Building Push for Community Control
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Housing Briefs: LA Settlement Could Increase Shelter Spending to $3 Billion
(Photo by Russ Allison Loar (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)) Los Angeles Settlement Requires City to Spend Up to $3 Billion on Homelessness Over Five Years A new settlement forces the city of Los Angeles to...
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Economics in Brief: Philadelphia Says No to CityCoin
(Photo by Ivan Radic (CC BY 2.0)) No CityCoin in Philadelphia The City of Philadelphia is ceasing the adoption of CityCoin, a philanthropic cryptocurrency that municipalities can use to finance local...
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How Can ‘Sponge Cities’ Use Nature to Tackle Climate-Fuelled Floods?
NYC only has a 30% 'sponge rate.' (Photo and image alteration by Andrew Price (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)) As climate change brings increasing flood threats, cities need to be designed like giant sponges that...
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Low-Income Students Need More Than a Good Education
(Photo by Kimberly Farmer on Unsplash) School districts where most enrollees are low-income and students of color receive about $23 billion less in educational funding compared to school districts...
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Welcome to Your Friendly Neighborhood Mental Health Center
The Strawberry Hill Neighborhood of Kansas City (Photo by Vincent Parsons (CC BY-NC 2.0)) In the fall of 2019, Lauren Lucht was walking to the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the new Strawberry Hill mental...
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Former Wall Street Pro Says to Tackle Inequality, Start With Changing Wall...
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Atlanta Nonprofit Offers Path to Success for Women in Tech
(Photo courtesy of Women in Technology) In January 2020, Kelly Gilbert felt as if her life was at a standstill. The new mom was suffering from postpartum depression. She had just resigned from her...
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Can Walking Together Heal a Neighborhood?
(Photo courtesy We Walk PHL) Hunting Park is an 87-acre jewel of public land in the geographic heart of Philadelphia that has served the surrounding Hunting Park neighborhood since the 1850s. It is a...
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What We Learn From Black- and Women-Led Cooperative Practice
Mandela Foods Cooperative in Oakland (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) EDITOR’S NOTE: The following is an excerpt from the book “Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism,” by Andrew Zitcer,...
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How a Tennessee Housing Policy Concentrates Poverty, Denies Opportunity
Hanif and Latoya Akinyemi’s youngest son rides his bicycle through their Windsor Pointe neighborhood. Their rental home was built using tax credits from the Tennessee Housing Development Agency....
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Housing Briefs: New York State’s Budget Fails to Provide Vouchers
People demonstrate in front of the New York Public Library earlier this year against Governor Kathy Hochul's housing policies. (Photo by John Lamparski/NurPhoto via AP) New York State’s Budget Fails...
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Displacement-Fighting Group in L.A.’s Little Tokyo Helps Small Businesses Own...
The Los Angeles Little Tokyo neighborhood (Photo by dany13 / CC BY 2.0) Displacement runs through the tapestry of American history like a bright red thread. The reasons vary, from political to racial...
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Economics in Brief: Starbucks Union Wave Continues
Photo by Joachim Fenkes (CC BY-SA 2.0) Starbucks Union Wave Continues Workers at a Starbucks cafe in Pittsburgh voted unanimously (20:0) to become the first store in Pennsylvania to unionize. Their...
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Massachusetts Cooperative Lenders Say State-Owned Bank Would Boost Their...
Democracy Brewing in Boston (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) For co-founder James Rasza, Democracy Brewing was always going to be a worker-owned cooperative. He’d held low-wage service jobs earlier in...
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What Can Be Done When Housing Affordability Restrictions Expire?
Apartments in California (Photo by Brian Wallace / CC BY-NC 2.0) Last April, seniors who lived in rent-restricted units at the Sierra Ridge apartment complex in Clovis, California, were told that...
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Hear Us: Center Black Women Organizers in Anti-Monopoly Activism
(AJ_Watt/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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