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Furnishing Homes And Diverting From Landfills, One Newly Housed Person At A Time
Humble Design San Diego client Jexsi in his new home. (Photo via @humbledesignsandiego on Instagram) The day that Bianca Moon gave birth to her daughter in 2016 was the same day that the father of her...
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Federal Transportation Funds Transform Local Communities
(Photo courtesy Friends of the Katy Trail) Sponsored content from City Parks Alliance. Sponsored content policy By now we have heard that the federal government will be investing billions of dollars...
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Appraisal Bias Is The Fair Housing Issue Of The Day
(Photo by E. Vitka / Unsplash) Last spring, under the leadership of former city councilmember Cherelle Parker, the Philadelphia Home Appraisal Bias Task Force released a report documenting racial bias...
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Graffiti Artists Flock To El Paso To Turn Cinder Block Walls Into Public Art
Chicago, one of 200 street artist who participated in the 2023 Borderland Jam, puts the finishing touches on a mural. (Photo by Christian Betancourt) This story was co-published with El Paso Matters...
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Transit Agencies Are Taking Small Steps Toward Family-Friendly Systems
In 2006, a transit agency serving the communities adjacent the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Delta claimed to be the first in the U.S. to provide a dedicated space for people to park strollers as...
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City Planners Are Questioning The Point Of Parking Garages
(Photo by Aditya Rathod / Unsplash) This article was originally published by The Conversation. For the past century, the public and private sector appear to have agreed on one thing: the more parking,...
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How New Mexico Child Care Workers Got The State To Invest In Their Industry
(Photo by Vote YES For Kids on Facebook) This story was originally published by The 19th. Merline Gallegos’ child care center has been on the verge of closing many times. She’s long struggled to pay...
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A Large-Scale LGBTQ-Focused Development Comes To Cleveland
Rendering of The Fieldhouse (Image courtesy Studio West 117) From the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando in 2016 to the Club Q massacre in Colorado Springs last November, the need for safe spaces for...
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In Cities, Reducing Air Pollution Could Lower Cancer Rates At Similar Rates...
(Photo by Jacek Dylag / Unsplash) This article was originally published on Environmental Health News. Exposure to air pollution has a significant impact on rates of cancers typically associated with...
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Should Virginia Build Housing For Public Servants On Public Land?
(Rendering by Maggie Walker Community Land Trust) This article was originally published in Virginia Mercury. Almost 60% of tenants in Virginia faced a rent increase last year. Localities are...
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In Buffalo, A Medical Campus and Community Collaborate For Equity
(Photo by Invest Buffalo Niagara / CC0 1.0) This is an adapted excerpt from “City Forward: How Innovation Districts Can Embrace Risk and Strengthen Community” by Matt Enstice with Mike Gluck. Enstice...
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Flooding Increasingly Pummels The Southeast U.S. These Organizers Are...
(Photo by Wade Austin Ellis / Unsplash) This article by Yale Climate Connections is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. Beverly May, retired nurse...
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Could Plans To Redevelop Richmond’s Coliseum Include Reparations?
(Photo by Paul Sableman / CC BY 2.0) This article was originally published on Greater Greater Washington. Fifty-four years ago, Virginia’s capital city broke ground on a new 13,500 seat arena, but the...
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An Obscure Rule About Bus Stops Can Make Riding At Night Safer
(Photo by Lucas Quintana / Unsplash) As transit agencies across the nation deploy projects with fewer stops so riders can get where they need to go faster, they’re also leaving some riders behind....
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How Worker Ownership Builds Community Wealth And A More Just Society
Evergreen Cooperative Laundry, a 100-percent worker-owned and worker-managed company, processes about 20 million pounds of laundry annually, most of it for anchor institution the Cleveland Clinic....
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The Coworking Space Putting Black Moms’ Startup Dreams First
The Cube is a coworking space geared toward mom entrepreneurs, created by Black mom entrepreneurs from Baltimore. (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) This story was co-published by Next City, a nonprofit...
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The Digital Tools Unlocking Democracy In Our Cities
(Photo by Jason Goodman / Unsplash) Digitization. It’s the threat that modern democracies, and especially cities, must solve – at least according to current dialogues on digital regulation. Many of...
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How A Deconstruction Company And Salvage Shop Are Keeping Building Materials...
In recent decades, there’s been a growing movement towards deconstruction instead of demolition. (Photo courtesy of Birch Group) What happens when old buildings have reached the end of their life,...
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Housing in Brief: Local Good Cause Shut Down In New York State
(Photo by Wenhao Ryan / Unsplash) Good Cause Blocked in Poughkeepsie and Albany On March 2, New York State’s highest court shut down a Good Cause law enacted in 2021 in the city of Albany on the basis...
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An East Boston Tenant Fought Her Eviction For 8 Years. The City Bought Her...
(Photo by Brett Wharton / Unsplash) Boston Mayor Michelle Wu and the city council celebrated an ambitious housing acquisition made in October. The city finalized a deal in October to buy 36 mostly...
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