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This Investment Fund Wants To Close The Racial Wealth Gap In Community Banking
City First Bank, a Black-led CDFI in Washington, D.C., merged with Broadway Federal Bank in 2021 to become the country's largest Black-led Minority Depository Institution, or MDI. (Photo by Oscar...
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Increasing Access to Capital For Minority-Owned Businesses In Atlanta
(Photo by ibuki Tsubo) Terri-Nichelle Bradley launched her educational toy company Brown Toy Box in 2017 with a mission to celebrate Black children and disrupt generational poverty. The company, which...
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The NYC Public Housing Residents That Created A Model For Tenant Rights Activism
NYCHA Cooper Park Houses in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (Photo by Kidfly182 / Creative Commons) This story was originally copublished by Capital B News and The City. The coronavirus pandemic laid bare the...
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Using Zoom To Connect Returning Citizens To Resources And Community
(Photo by LinkedIn Sales Solutions / Unsplash) When the pandemic struck in early 2020, many people getting out of prison were left struggling as many of the organizations typically available to assist...
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The Organization Helping Homeless People Stay With Their Beloved Pets
(Photo courtesy of Urban Resource Institute. All rights reserved.) In the mid 2010s, social worker Christine Kim was working for a housing first program, an initiative that was innovative for its time...
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Housing In Brief: Will L.A. Protect Tenants After The Eviction Moratorium?
(Photo by Thomas Hawk / CC BY-NC 2.0) Tenant Protections Debated As L.A.’s Eviction Moratorium Ends As L.A.’s eviction moratorium approaches its potential end on Jan. 31, the city council is still...
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South Dakota Initiative Helps Native American Families Become Homeowners
(Photo by J. Stephen Conn / CC BY-NC 2.0) Members of the Rosebud Reservation in Southern South Dakota face a number of barriers to wealth-building. For one, there has historically been a lack of...
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Philly’s Chinatown And Decades Of Development Fights
(Photo by Jane Smith / CC BY-NC 2.0) This story was originally published at Prism. Loud chants of “hands off Chinatown!” spilled out the doors of Philadelphia’s Ocean Harbor restaurant on a Wednesday...
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Economics in Brief: How Restaurant Workers Funded Lobbying Against Their...
(Photo by Brian Lundquist / Unsplash) Food Service Workers Unwittingly Fund The Lobbyists That Suppress Their Wages Restaurant and food service workers are often mandated to pay for a basic online...
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As Flooding Increases, Chicago Looks To Make Basement Housing Safer
(Illustration by Jennifer Chavez / Borderless Magazine) This story is part of a collaborative series from the Institute for Nonprofit News, Planet Detroit, Tostada Magazine, Energy News Network, The...
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A Creative Lab Starting Conversations About Climate, While Enlivening...
A workshop at Anchorage's SEED Lab. (Courtesy photo) Artist Amy Meissner believes in the power of repair. Living in Alaska, Meissner is keenly aware of how items may not be readily available or may...
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Developer Takes a High-End Approach to Low-Income Housing in South Bend
Downtown South Bend (Photo by Scott Palmer / CC BY-SA 4.0) Jordan Richardson was working as a developer in South Bend, Indiana, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, emphasizing social disparities and...
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A Mobile Bank On Wheels Reaches Bronx Residents Where They Are
This coalition partnered with a credit union to provide services designed for an underbanked community. (Photo courtesy of the Bronx Financial Access Coalition) At the height of the pandemic, bank...
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Here’s How Philadelphia’s First Guaranteed Income Program Is Going
(Photo by Vitaly Taranov / Unsplash) The Philadelphia Housing Development Corporation (PHDC) and City of Philadelphia are touting the success of PHLHousing Plus, a guaranteed income program focused on...
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A Self-Facilitated Prison Dorm Paves The Way To Prison Reform
(Photo by Tasneem Jhetam / Unsplash) The most striking thing when walking inside Bravo Dorm is the tranquility. Incarcerated residents sit on blue plastic chairs quietly reading books, students train...
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If Web3 Is the Future, Who Will Get to Build it?
(Illustration by Shubham via Unsplash) Sponsored content from Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI). Sponsored content policy EDITOR’S NOTE: This sponsored content is paid for by the Center for...
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A ‘Yelp For OB-GYNs’ Is Improving Care For Families Of Color
(Photo by Alex Pasarelu / Unsplash) This story was originally published by Billy Penn and appears here as part of the Broke in Philly reporting collaborative. People giving birth at Temple University...
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These Tenants Fought Boston University For Ownership Of Their Homes, And Won
A tenant holds a sign reading "Save Our Hood," at a community rally in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood urging Boston University officials not to sell their buildings to investors in Los Angeles,...
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Housing In Brief: Biden Unveils New Measures To Protect Tenants And...
In this Jan. 27, 2021, file photo President Joe Biden signs a series of executive orders on climate change, in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington. In a flurry of executive actions...
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Greener School Playgrounds Are An Overlooked Climate Solution
(Photo courtesy of Trust for Public Land) This article is co-published with Nexus Media News, an editorially independent, nonprofit news service covering climate change, as part of our joint Fairer...
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