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The Recycling App That Supports Displaced Women
Maryam Bello, an internationally displaced woman in Nigeria, works on a loom to create goods from recycled waste. A four-year-old tech startup in Nigeria is hiring internally displaced women to...
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Will Student Debt Relief Really Undermine Military Recruitment?
(Photo by Joel Rivera-Camacho / Unsplash) This article was co-published by Prism and Next City as part of our Solutions for Economic Equity partnership, highlighting how low-income and marginalized...
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Tackling Generational Poverty By Helping Teen Mothers
Teen Success member Leslie N. with her daughter. (Photo by Jasmine Contapay) When Emily, now 20, found out she was pregnant four years ago, she was flooded with fear. “I was scared to tell my...
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How An Illinois City Achieved Functional Zero For Veteran And Chronically...
In Rockford, a regional working group of homelessness response agencies, outreach workers, health care systems, police, code enforcement and the fire department (Photo via Community Solutions) In...
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A West Fresno Farmer Aims To Revolutionize Local Community Food Access
Rev. Floyd D. Harris Jr. and a Fresno Freedom School student sell vegetables at the West Fresno CAN 93706 Market on Sept 9, 2022. Fresno Freedom School students help grow the produce and pack Fresno...
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Housing In Brief: Advocates Are Suing San Francisco Over Its Encampment Sweeps
(Photo by Paul Sableman / CC BY 2.0) San Francisco Advocates Sue City Over Encampment Sweeps Advocates and people experiencing homelessness have sued San Francisco over its sweeps of homeless...
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Tapping Into Insect Farming To Clear Zimbabwe’s Urban Waste
Zimbabwean farmer Brighton Zambezi rears chicken at his backyard farm in Harare's Sunningdale. (Photo by Farai Shawn Matiashe) On a sunny and windy morning, Brighton Zambezi scooped up a kilogram of...
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A Short Film Shows How SEPTA’s #47 Bus Connects Philly’s Latino Communities
To create "La Guagua 47," more than 250 Philadelphia artists, community members and organizations participated. (Screenshot from short film) This story was originally published in The Philadelphia...
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Economics In Brief: Where Black Wealth Is Most Concentrated In The U.S.
(Photo by Sabrinavfholder / nappy.co) Black People Are Finding Property In This North Virginia County New data has emerged pinpointing where in the U.S. Black people are most prosperous. A...
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Black-Owned Companies Seek To Close Chicago’s Electric Transportation Gaps
(Photo courtesy GEST Chicago) This story was originally published by Energy News Network. The transition to electric vehicles is well under way, but the benefits will be slow to arrive in communities...
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A Resource Center For Unhoused Portlanders Focuses On Peer Support
The Behavioral Health Resource Center, slated to open in November, is nearing the final stages of construction. (Photo by Motoya Nakamura / Multnomah County) This November, a new mode of support for...
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A Mural Program Helps Previously Incarcerated Women Return To Life
The Women's Guild graduation ceremony at Philadelphia City Hall on May 26, 2022. (Photo by Steve Weinik) December Ablessing Collins is hard to miss in a room. She constantly uses her hands to talk and...
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Will The Inflation Reduction Act Finally Tear Down Baltimore’s Highway To...
A still from "Disruption: Baltimore's Highway To Nowhere," a short film by Sean Yoes. This story is co-published with Nexus Media News and was made possible by a grant from the Open Society...
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A Pennsylvania Program Will Provide Free Repairs – So Long As Landlords Don’t...
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (Photo by Pollinator) In July, Pennsylvania’s legislature passed a law that could revitalize deteriorating homes across the state. The Whole Home Repair Act sets aside $125...
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Housing In Brief: L.A.’s Anti-Harassment Law Was Set Up To Fail
Firefighters work to contain a wildfire burning in Moraga, California, on Oct. 10, 2019. Police have ordered evacuations as the fast-moving wildfire spread in the hills of the San Francisco Bay Area...
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Take Our 2022 Reader Survey To Help Improve Next City
If you haven’t already, please let us know how our reporting inspires you to improve your city by completing our quick survey. We know you are busy, so we kept our questions brief, and the survey...
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For Local Food Systems To Thrive, Farm Tax Breaks Must Be Harder To Get
(Photo by Federico Respini / Unsplash) For local and regional food systems to work, the land around cities has to grow food. It sounds obvious, but that’s rarely what actually happens. Most U.S....
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Fashioning An Identity Behind Bars
(Photo courtesy Clothing Inside team) Back in 2013, Jonathan Alvarez embarked on his own ethnographic research while incarcerated. As part of the Bard Prison Initiative, a prison education program...
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Economics in Brief: These Big Banks Are Set To Assess Their Climate Risk
(Photo from 401kcalculator.org) Fed Launches Pilot Program Exploring Climate Risk In Banking Just as cities plan for climate resiliency, banks are now being asked to do the same — at least in a...
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How To Reduce Your City’s Climate Footprint? The Answer May Be In Your Trash Can
Compost bin training at Freedom Dreams on the Eastside of Detroit. (Photo by Garrett MacLean, 2022) Sponsored content from GAIA. Sponsored content policy As America’s climate commitments have...
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