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How One City Ended Prison Gerrymandering
(Photo by likeaduck / CC BY 2.0) This story was originally published on the Center for Public Integrity and is a collaboration Bolts. The Howard R. Young Correctional Institution sits between a creek...
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Houston’s Disruptive History Of Highways, And What Transit Agencies Can Do...
Aerial view showing two prominent features of Houston, Texas in 2014: a rampant development in the energy sector and multiple freeway ribbons of concrete. (Photo by Carol M. Highsmith / Carol M....
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This Juárez Nonprofit Uses Sports To Deter Youth From Violence
Coaches with Escuelas de Bienestar try out balls donated by the One World Foundation during a training session. (Photo by Luis Mendoza / Fundacion Paso Del Norte) This story was co-published with El...
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What It Takes To Shelter Washington State’s Housing Insecure Youth
Students at Washington Elementary School in Vancouver, Wash., have benefited from a state program that helps kids whose housing situation is unstable, or is threatened with instability. The program...
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What Silicon Valley Bank’s Collapse Says About Banking And Community
(Photo by Mariia Shalabaieva / Unsplash) Banking has never been about avoiding risk. It’s about managing risk. For years, especially during an era of near-zero interest rates that lasted about a...
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How Norway Became The World’s Electric Car Capital
Free parking lot for electric cars in Oslo, Norway. (Photo by Mario Duran-Ortiz / CC BY-SA 2.0) This article originally ran on Nexus Media News, an editorially independent, nonprofit news service...
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The Care(ful) Work Of Abolishing Prisons
(Photo by Gabe Pierce / Unsplash) This story was originally published by Yes! Magazine. Our society is addicted to punishment. For the last 50 years, we have expanded police forces, passed laws...
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Italy’s Renewable Energy Communities Fight Energy Poverty, And Climate Change
On the rooftop of a former orphanage in San Giovanni a Teduccio in the southern Italy's Naples, 166 solar panels provide clean energy to 20 low-income families in the working-class neighborhood....
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How Mass Bird Death In Philadelphia Catalyzed A Local Lights-out Program
(Photo by Ian Battaglia / Unsplash) Keith Russell was on his way to work in the late 1980’s when he “really started noticing” birds killed by what he believed to be collisions with buildings. At the...
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African Societies Will Inform This Community-Centered Housing Model In Toronto
(Photo by Adetayo Adepoju / Unsplash) In Canada’s largest city, locals have gotten used to the number of cranes dotting the skies. For about two decades Toronto, the fourth-largest city in North...
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Is Your Bank Safe? Here’s How To Find And Assess Your Bank’s Balance Sheet
(Photo by Maxim Potyomkin / Unsplash) If you’ve ever wondered what your bank is invested in, there’s good news for you. Yes, good news, even now with everyone worried about the safety and soundness of...
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The Weekly Wrap: New York City’s AirTrain and A Renewed Public Bank Push
Inside Terminal B at LaGuardia Airport (Photo by risingthermals / CC BY-NC 2.0) New York Officially Scraps Airtrain To Laguardia, Pitches More Buses Instead Plans for an AirTrain to Laguardia Airport...
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Dead Electric Car Batteries Find a Second Life Powering Cities
(Photo by JUICE / Unsplash) This story originally appeared in Reasons to be Cheerful. Last month, a small warehouse in the English city of Nottingham received the crucial final components for a...
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Boise CDFI Takes a Neighborly Approach to Affordable Housing
A NeighborWorks Boise Pocket Neighborhood (Photo courtesy of NeighborWorks) In Boise, Idaho, NeighborWorks prides itself on turning NIMBYs into YIMBYs. The CDFI has taken a unique approach to...
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On-Demand Buses Can Transform Travel And Daily Life For People With Disabilities
Metro Micro (Photo courtesy LA Metro) This article originally appeared in The Conversation Australia. People with disabilities arguably stand to gain the most from good public transport, but are...
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This Young Farmer Is Helping To Heal Her Community’s Connection To The Land
Jonshell Johnson-Whitten is a farmer and community organizer from New Orleans. (Photo by Alexis T. Reed / YR Media and CatchLight Local as part of a reporting collaboration with Grist and Next City)...
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Louisville’s Multiracial Tenant Union Is At The Forefront Of A Growing...
Louisville Tenants Union members delivered petitions to the CT Group’s rent office in May 2022. (Photo via Louisville Tenants Union / Twitter) This story was originally published on Waging...
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Diesel Buses Harm The Environment. These El Paso School Districts Are Going...
Rows of buses at the Ysleta Independent School District transportation hub await to pick up students. The district uses 216 buses to transport students in the district. (Photo by Christian Betancourt...
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The Weekly Wrap: IPCC Report Fuels Protests of Willow Project
Demonstrators protest against the Biden administration's approval of the Willow oil-drilling project before a scheduled speech by Biden at the Department of the Interior in Washington, Tuesday, March...
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Prescription for Housing? California Wants Medicaid To Cover 6 Months Of Rent
(Photo by Adrian Pranata / Unsplash) This story was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes California Healthline, an editorially independent service of the California Health Care Foundation....
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