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Are Land Trusts Part Of The Land Back Movement?
(Photo courtesy Willamette Falls Trust on Facebook) This story originally appeared on Underscore News. On a cloudy September morning, dozens piled into kayaks, stand-up paddle boards and a canoe near...
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Chicago Doesn’t Keep Track Of Landlords. Boulder Offers A Way Forward.
CU Boulder campus (Photo by Dave Dugdale / learningdslrvideo.com) About a week before college classes began in Boulder, Colorado, in 2016, hundreds of students and other tenants moved into their...
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The Weekly Wrap: Election Day Roundup Edition
(Photo by Tiffany Tertipes / Unsplash) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap! This week, many of stories we’re highlighting are the result of elections that took place across the country on Tuesday. Also,...
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Has The Shared E-Scooter Industry Finally Grown Up?
(Photo by Jonas Jacobsson / Unsplash) Picture this: You’re cruising on a Bird or Lime or Veo or LINK e-scooter in a protected bike lane built by the abundant profits reaped by the e-scooter industry...
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These Indigenous Leaders Started Rapid City’s First Lakota School
Teachers of the Oceti Sakowin Community Academy gift backpacks to their inaugural class of kindergarten students. (Photo courtesy NDN Collective) After the 30 documented boarding schools that operated...
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Controlled Burns Can Provide Years Of Protection Against Wildfires
(Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images via Grist) This story was originally published by Grist. When data scientist Xaio Wu arrived at Stanford University for his postdoctoral fellowship, California...
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Zoning Reform Is Entering A New, Grown-Up Era
(Photo by Josh Hild / Unsplash) Blink, and you might’ve missed it: St. Paul, Minnesota just ended zoning that restricts neighborhoods only to single-family housing. On Wednesday, October 18, the St....
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Can El Paso’s Zoning Reform Help Address Historic Injustices?
Chamizal National Memorial in El Paso (Photo by Simon Foot / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) This story was co-published with El Paso Matters and is the final piece in our joint Equitable Cities Reporting Fellowship...
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The Weekly Wrap: APEC Brings Thousands of Protesters to San Francisco
Demonstrators gather to protest the APEC Summit taking place Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023, in San Francisco. (Photo by Godofredo A. Vásquez / AP) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap! Quick programming note:...
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A Model For Getting Domestic Violence Survivors Wraparound Support
San Diego District Attorney Summer Stephan hugs a visitor to One Safe Place, North County Family Justice Center, during an open house event prior to the center's launch in July 2022. (Photo courtesy...
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The Outsized Impact Of Small Credit Unions
Florida A&M University Federal Credit Union CEO Sheilah Montgomery and Nueva Esperanza Community Credit Union CEO Sue Cuevas (Photo courtesy of Inclusiv) Sue Cuevas helped found the first and only...
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Want Safer Streets For Everyone? Narrow The Lanes.
(Photo by Chris Dickens / Unsplash) Turns out, wider lanes don’t make for safer streets. In a new study from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a team of researchers found that the...
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The Community-Driven Climate Solutions Making A Difference
(Photo by Li-An Lim / Unsplash) To many of us, thinking about climate change brings about existential dread, panic, or even climate anxiety. The largest ever U.N. climate change conference of the...
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As Chicago Punts On Apartment Safety, Denver Shows What’s Possible
Kevin Lewis, an independent inspector, examines a single-family rental home in Denver. (Photo by Chet Strange / Illinois Answers Project) The tenant of a two-story house in east Denver had been...
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The Black Churches Lifting Up Climate Resilience
This story was originally published by the KneeDeep Times. “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof,” declares Reverend Frank Jackson, Jr. on Google Meet with a spark in his eye, quoting the...
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The Weekly Wrap: In Police Searches, New York Bicyclists To Be Held To The...
(Photo by Robinson Greig / Unsplash) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap! As we get closer to the end of 2023, we’re also inching closer toward sending our Solutions of the Year magazine to your...
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25 Stunning Urban Transformations In Montreal
From its express bike corridor on Saint-Denis to its lively and highly Instagrammable car-free summer streets, Montreal has rapidly emerged as a leader in North America’s transformations from...
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California Is Showing The Potential Of Strip Mall-To-Housing Conversions
(Photo by Chika Watanabe / CC BY 2.0 DEED) State and local jurisdictions are desperately looking for new ways to speed up affordable housing development as the supply of homes falls short of demand...
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The Weekly Wrap: MTA Votes On $15 Congestion Pricing Toll
(Photo by Gerrie van der Walt / Unsplash) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday round-up of stories that explain the problems oppressing people in cities and elevate the solutions bringing us...
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$1B Will Bring More City Trees. But It’ll Take More Than Seedlings To Grow...
Volunteers with the Green Seattle Partnership remove invasive plants from the forest at Seattle’s Carkeek Park. (Photo by Alex Brown/Stateline) This story was originally published by Stateline. Over...
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