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How To Build A Bank To Scale Up Local Food Ecosystems
(Illustration courtesy Walden Mutual Bank) Charley Cummings had a vision of creating a new, sustainable, local food system. In 2013 he and his wife started their own company in Concord, New Hampshire,...
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To Stop Demolition, Residents Transformed Their London Home Into An Art Exhibit
A crowd listens to a speaker in the hallway of the Aylesbury. (Waging Nonviolence / Alessia Gammarota) London’s residents face the highest rents and have the lowest rate of homeownership in the U.K....
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Why Pro Sports Teams Are Borrowing From Black-Owned Banks
(Photo by Dave Adamson) When the NFL needed to borrow $78 million recently, they opted to work with 16 Minority Depository Institutions (MDIs), CDFIs and women-focused banks. “We saw this as an...
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The Weekly Wrap: Ohio Cracks Down On Wage Theft
(Photo by TopSphere Media / Unsplash) Welcome to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday round up of stories that explain the problems oppressing people in cities and elevate the solutions bringing us closer to...
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A Policy Roadmap for Building Equitable Park Systems
East Baton Rouge Mayor Weston Broome and Superintendent Corey Wilson break ground with other public and private partners on the Inspiration Center at BREC’s Howell Community Park. (Photo courtesy of...
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A New Program Is Showing Promise In Chipping Away At Maine’s Affordable...
Brian Eng, left, and Sam Hight, right, stand on the plot of land in Madison where they plan to construct 18 studio, one and two-bedroom apartments. The two buildings are designed to model the other...
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Transit Funding Problems Too Big Even For Taylor Swift To Solve
(Photo by Chaz McGregor / Unsplash) Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour has re-invigorated the live concerts scene across the country, attracting thousands of fans despite sky-high ticket prices (thank you to...
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The Weekly Wrap: New York City Is Rejecting More Back Payments For Tenants In...
(Photo by Jonathan McIntosh, CC BY 2.5 / Wikimedia Commons) It’s Friday — yay! That means it’s time for another edition to The Weekly Wrap, our round up of stories that explain the problems oppressing...
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For Young People, Summer Is A Time for Work
(Photo by Getty Images / Unsplash) This story was originally published on Vital City. The end of the school year marks the beginning of summer and with it, the hunt by many teenagers for a summer job....
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Turning Brownfields Into Hospitals Can Improve Public Health. It Can Also...
(Photo by Andy Vult / Unsplash) In this excerpt from “Health Colonialism,” geographer Shiloh Krupar examines the role of urban brownfields in health disparities and medical apartheid. In the early...
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Community Investors Are Doing What Big Dollar Retail Investors Won’t
(Photo courtesy Chicago TREND) Lyneir Richardson has been helping Black people buy the block since 1991 or 1992. Then a new lawyer at the First National Bank of Chicago, Richardson occasionally had to...
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The Architects Shedding Light On Shade Inequity At The US-Mexico Border
Texas Tech University College of Architecture professors and research partners Stephen Mueller and Ersela Kripa examine a paper prototype of a shade structure designed by their software, which focuses...
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Taking The Student Housing Co-op Model Off Campus
NASCO recently acquired the three-story Randolph House, part of Community of Urbana-Champaign Cooperative Housing. (Photo courtesy NASCO) When Peter Meyer Reimer moved to Chicago five years ago for a...
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Indigenous Community Provides Blueprint for Financing Opioid Recovery
A rendering of the completed Turtle Mountain Recovery Center (Photo courtesy of the Turtle Mountain Recovery Center) As the opioid crisis continues to escalate, rural populations and historically...
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One-Stop Shops Can Change The Game For Your City’s Small Business Growth
(Photo by Stuart Seeger / CC BY 2.0) In February, researchers at the Institute for Justice published a study analyzing barriers to starting small businesses. “Too often, entrepreneurs struggle with...
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The Weekly Wrap: Illinois Will Be The First State To End Cash Bail
A view of the Macon County Courthouse in Decatur, Illinois. (Photo by Randy von Liski / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Welcome to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday round up of stories that explain the problems oppressing...
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Credit Unions Are Taking The Lead To Un-Redline The Green New Deal
(Photo by Raze Solar / Unsplash) Terri Mickelsen and about 7,500 of her friends aren’t waiting to jump into the green revolution. They’re members of Clean Energy Credit Union, where Mickelsen is CEO,...
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Homeownership Is Still The Most Reliable Way To Build Generational Wealth For...
(Photo by Freepik) It’s no secret that Americans are facing a housing affordability crisis and that we’re less secure than ever in our homes. But as rents rise and inflation increases, we are also...
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We Can’t Afford To Not Make Our Cities More Accessible For People With...
MTA launched a pilot this week to test an automated wheelchair securement device, the Quantum Self Securement Station, on ten buses along the M7 route. (Photo courtesy MTA) The Americans with...
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Civic Innovation Is Flourishing In Cities Right Now
(Photo by mauro mora / Unsplash) This summer, cities around the world are unveiling and expanding new tools and initiatives in the name of civic engagement and digital innovation. From Los Angeles to...
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