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How Small Community Investors Helped Get a Boston Food Co-op Off the Ground
At the July 19 groundbreaking ceremony of the Dorchester Food Co-Op in Boston, board member Robin Saunders (far left) poses with community members including Boston At-Large Council Member Julia Mejia...
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Greening a Home – And the Next Generation – in Wisconsin
Solar panels atop the Geason-Bauer home. (Photo courtesy of Current Electric) This article first appeared on Energy News Network and is republished here under a Creative Commons license. Most...
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Kansas City’s Zero Fare Transit Program Shows Major Success – And What Still...
(Photo by Tianyi Ma / Unsplash) Kansas City, Missouri, made national headlines in the fall of 2019 when its city council voted unanimously to become America’s first large city to make public...
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Moving from Rights to Justice: Uprooting Ableism and Cultivating Disability...
(Photo by Chona Kasinger/Disabled and Here/CC BY 4.0) 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....
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Fighting for the Right to Play Outdoors
(Photo courtesy of London Play Design) If you were looking for a metaphor to explain the impact of inequality in our cities, you would find one in disparities in access to play. In London, where over...
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How Landlords Are Getting Around St. Paul’s Rent Control Law
(Photo by Josh Hild / Unsplash) When Katherine Banbury, 64, and her partner moved into a two-bedroom apartment in St. Paul, Minnesota four years ago, the rent was advertised to be $1,000 a month. She...
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Housing in Brief: Only 5.8% of L.A.’s Emergency Housing Vouchers Were Used
(Photo by Russ Allison Loar / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Most Emergency Housing Vouchers Go Unused in Los Angeles Only 5.8% of emergency housing vouchers distributed by the city of Los Angeles since last year...
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This Is What Housing Designed for Neurodiverse Adults Looks Like
Cohome residents and visitors enjoy a snack together on the house's porch (Photo courtesy of Cohome) Nathaniel Diskint shared a room with his younger brother, Jeremy, in their family home when they...
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New High-Res Satellite Imagery Gives the Clearest Picture Yet of the World’s...
(Photo by Amani Nation / Unsplash) How tall is every building in the world? Why do cities grow? How many cities are there in the world? If a house is surrounded by a large yard, should the property be...
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Economics in Brief: A Philly Task Force Takes on Racially Biased Home Appraisals
(Photo by Kenny Eliason / Unsplash) Philly Task Force: Biased Home Appraisals Widen Racial Wealth Gap The Philadelphia Home Appraisal Bias Task Force’s new report on racial bias in home appraisals...
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How Can We Achieve Equitable Retail Growth? Look to Atlanta
BeltLine MarketPlace rendering by Atelier 7. (Image courtesy Atlanta BeltLine MarketPlace) Revitalizing America’s downtown and neighborhood retail districts is a major challenge in the wake of the...
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Facing Eviction? Here’s How We Turn Rent Debts Into Leverage for Change.
A tenant renting a HavenBrook Homes-owned house in disrepair speaks at a press conference organized by Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia in Minneapolis. (Photo courtesy Inquilinxs Unidxs Por Justicia in...
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“The Street Project” Shows How America’s Streets Are “Deadly by Design” – And...
Dulcie Canton, one of the activists featured in the documentary, is a bicyclist who has been hit by a driver. (Image courtesy The Street Project) There’s a chilling scene in “The Street Project,” a...
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NYC’s Newest Gigabit Center Aims to Close the Bronx’s Digital Divide
New York’s first Gigabit Center opened in February 2022 at the Silicon Harlem Innovation Space for People. (Photo by Gerri Hernandez) About 38% of Bronx residents don’t have home broadband access,...
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Creating Green Spaces Amid Kenya’s Largest Dumpsite
(Photo courtesy Public Space Network) They could finally see the ground. It took weeks of daily digging by around 50 volunteers to reach the bottom of a one square-kilometer landfill in Dandora, the...
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Linking Philly Girls of Color to Coding Through Dance Reflects National Trend
PeopleImages/iStock Photo This story was originally published by Chalkbeat Philadelphia. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. Women and people of color are under-represented in...
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Affordable Housing Developers Want Exemptions From St. Paul’s Rent Control Law
(Photo by Harshil Shah / CC BY-ND 2.0) This story is the second and final part of a short Backyard series examining the aftermath of St. Paul’s new rent control measures. Our previous story looked at...
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Housing In Brief: Upstate New York Gets In On Rent Control
Downtown Kingston, New York. (Photo by AlexiusHoratius / CC BY-SA 4.0) Kingston, New York Is The First Upstate City To Enact Rent Control Kingston became the first city in New York’s upstate region to...
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How A Fargo Timber Company Scaled Its Urban Wood Production
(Photo by Dan Francis, courtesy of Dakota Timber Company.) Tucked into wood packaging material, the metallic green Emerald Ash Borer Beetle, native to Asia, was first discovered in the U.S. in 2002,...
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In An Era Of Data Sharing, Can A Real Sanctuary City Exist?
(Photo by Jürgen Jester / Unsplash) Sanctuary city policies were meant to protect immigrants, by limiting how much local law enforcement can cooperate with and supply information to federal...
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