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Interrupting Cycles of Harm, Inside and Outside Prison Walls
Photo by penreyes/CC BY 2.0 Shawanna Vaughn fights prisons with equal amounts of forgiveness and fury. The forgiveness she offers is one that she hopes everyone will embrace — one that sees people who...
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A Safe House in Chicago Provides More Than Shelter
Jordan Travis in front of the Youth Leadership House (Photo courtesy of IMAN) Last summer, 28-year-old Jordan Travis was facing housing insecurity in his hometown of Chicago. “I was out there on the...
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Racial Justice Initiatives Could Give Louisville Metro Budget a $90 Million...
Louisville residents set up an informal memorial to Breaonna Taylor, who was killed by police in 2020. A study found that Louisville pays more than $7 million a year in settlement payments related to...
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Inside the Construction of South L.A.’s Expansive Public Arts Corridor
An artist rendition of Sankofa Park featuring a sculpture by Charles Dickson (Photo courtesy of Destination Crenshaw) Charles Dickson started sculpting at five years old and sold his first piece at...
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Hear Us: Just Cancel the Debt, Joe.
(Photo by Daniel Thiele on Unsplash) 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...
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Greater & Greener Highlights Urban Parks as Essential Element of...
Philadelphia's Franklin Square (Photo by J. Fusco for Historic Philadelphia, Inc.) Sponsored content from City Parks Alliance. Sponsored content policy The challenges facing cities are daunting. From...
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When the Halfway House Is Prison 2.0
The WIN Recovery house in Chicago is one location trying to reform the halfway house model. They provide housing to formerly incarcerated LGBTQ+ people, especially women. (Photo courtesy of Bethany...
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Housing in Brief: A City in Kansas Just Outlawed Having Too Many Roommates
(Photo courtesy of Visit KC) Today’s briefs are zoning heavy. We’ll look at a law in Kansas that makes it illegal to have too many roommates, a set of statewide zoning reforms signed into law in...
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New England Program Helps Low-Income Communities Join the Green Energy...
A solar array on the roof of Peterborough Library in New Hampshire (Photo courtesy of Revision Energy) In the last two years, utility costs have seen a steady increase, particularly in New England,...
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Bank Regulators Propose Overhaul of Redlining Law
(Photo by Pictures of Money / CC BY 2.0) A chance to significantly overhaul banking regulations comes around once in a generation — or maybe twice. Today, the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit...
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Economics in Brief: New Mexico to Provide Free Child Care for Most Residents
(Photo by Raúl Hernández González / CC BY 2.0) New Mexico to Provide Free Child Care for Most Residents New Mexico will eliminate the cost of child care for most families through June 2023, Gov....
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Bay Area Transit Agencies Are (Finally) Taking Collaboration Seriously
(Photo by Don Barrett / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the third in a series of three articles about city public transit systems and the benefits and obstacles of how they integrate with...
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How This Detroit Innovator Is Reimagining Information as Civic Infrastructure
(Photo by JP Leong, Urban Consulate) Sponsored content from Urban Consulate. Sponsored content policy Candice Fortman is right: we can’t talk about building more just and equitable cities without...
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Maine CDFI Offers Small-Business Loans, No Interest Attached
Yassin Moussa (Photo credit: Flax Studios) Maine has a burgeoning refugee and immigrant population with a keen entrepreneurial spirit that is getting attention from a Lewiston, Maine, CDFI called...
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At Kansas City’s Giving Grove, the Mission Is ‘Much Bigger Than Food’
(Photo by Mieke Campbell on Unsplash) Across Kansas City — and the country — orchards in unlikely places now have budding fruit trees. On a hilly terrain next to a massive railroad yard in Kansas...
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Palm Springs Turns to Guaranteed Income to Lift Transgender Residents Out of...
(Photo by cultivar413 / CC BY 2.0) Jacob Rostovsky is already fielding questions about enrollment in a basic income pilot program tailored to support transgender and gender non-conforming Palm Springs...
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CDFI Has a New Tool to Boost Minority Homeownership
(U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Teresa J. Cleveland) Expanding access to homeownership is crucial for closing the racial wealth gap. The Change Company, an Irvine, California-based CDFI, is...
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What Can $1.3 Million Accomplish? NYC Residents Are Getting a Say
NYC Civic Engagement Commission workers spread the word in the Bronx about how to get involved in the city's participatory budgeting process. (Photo courtesy of the NYC Civic Engagement Commission)...
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Can Produce Prescription Programs Turn the Tide on Diet-Related Disease?
(Photo by Ruth Hartnup / CC BY 2.0) The 61-year-old African American woman arrived at the health clinic with high blood pressure, prediabetes, and worries about kidney failure—a concern for...
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Tired of Mold, Mice and Bad Management, Chicago Tenants Take a Stand
The Chatham neighborhood in Chicago (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) For the 17 years Jolondon Jamerson, 56, has lived in her apartment building in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood, she flew under the...
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