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Should Cities Pay to Attract Remote Workers?
(Photo via Getty Images) Many cities, and some states, have encouraged remote workers to migrate with offers of subsidized co-working space and housing incentives. Northwest Arkansas, dubbed...
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Can São Paulo Turn Its Seized Buildings Into Public Housing?
(Photos by Roshan Abraham) On a sweltering evening last September, Maria Dos Desteros cooked tilapia on the stove of her tiny kitchen in São Paulo, Brazil. The small unit includes a bedroom with...
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A Mobile Food Pantry Meets Refugees Where They’re At
(Photo courtesy of Out of the Garden Project) This story was co-published with Triad City Beat as part of our joint Equitable Cities Reporting Fellowship For Racial Justice Narratives. It started at a...
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The Weekly Wrap: Tenants Want A Say in Section 8 Housing Sale
(Photo by Brandon Griggs / 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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Urban Seating Isn’t Designed for My Body. It’s Time To Change That.
(Photo by Ivana Cajina / Unsplash+) Urbanists talk often about our right to mobility, working to ensure that we are all able to walk or roll down the streets of our cities. But what about our right to...
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A Radical Vision for the Housing Crisis in the West of Ireland
“The government has tied Galway up in a bit of a bind. If the city can’t grow out, and it can’t grow up, how can it grow?” YouTuber Polysee offers a vision for transit-oriented development in the city...
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The Home Next Door Was Inspiring. But We Need Fewer Like It.
Costa Brava (Photo by Joshua Kettle / Unsplash) The first thing I noticed about the neighboring property was, in retrospect, its least interesting feature. My wife and I had swapped our Barcelona...
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NYC’s Big Bet to Train the Black and Brown Climate Professionals of the Future
A group of students touring the Brooklyn STEAM Center (Photo courtesy Runway Green Collective) When she was a high school student in central Brooklyn, Sadiqah Whittington had never received any...
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Tighter Regulations Are Reducing the Risk of Lead Exposure in Public Housing
Lead paint applied to a porch, cracking and flaking off. (Photo by Ich / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0) This story was originally published by The 19th. A new study suggests that lead inspection...
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St. Louis’ Turn-of-the-Century Transit Renaissance
On his YouTube channel Heartland Urbanist, Columbus-based organizer Matt Caffrey digs into the story behind St. Louis’s light metro system. In the mid-1980s, while many other transit agencies were...
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SCOTUS Is Set To Make a Watershed Ruling on Homelessness. But Real Solutions...
(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) This month, the Supreme Court will begin to hear one of the highest-profile court cases about homelessness in generations. City of Grants Pass, Oregon v. Gloria...
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The Weekly Wrap: HUD Rules Could Curb Discrimination Against Formerly...
(Photo by Kimson Doan / Unsplash) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap! We’re still accepting applications for our annual Vanguard conference, which is taking place in Lexington, Kentucky this September....
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Meet the Black Doula Educating Richmond’s Moms-to-Be
Cheyenne Varner is founder of The Educated Birth in Richmond, Virginia. (Photos courtesy Varner) Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a concerning trend: Black women...
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Vacant Storefronts Are Killing Our Downtowns. Small-Scale Manufacturing Can...
(Photo by Quino Al / Unsplash) One of the long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic is the way it has transformed office use, threatening the viability of storefront retail in downtown office...
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NYC’s New Office of Livable Streets Aims To Make Streets Safer, Greener and...
Street interventions at Broadway and 25th. (Photo courtesy NYC DOT) The COVID-19 pandemic changed how people used public space in New York City, with streets like 34th Avenue in Queens shutting down...
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Training a New Generation of Black Birthworkers
Learning midwives Kandice White (far left), Nikiya Ellis-Chavis (center left) and Audrey Gentry-Brown (far right) with fourth-generation midwife Racha Tahani Lawler-Queen (center right). (Photo by...
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Understanding the EPA’s Massive New Investment in Emissions Reduction
(Photo by Li-An Lim / Unsplash) The Environmental Protection Agency’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is finally here, weighing in at a whopping $27 billion. But as much as those of us in these spaces...
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Clean Energy Investments Must Prioritize Climate-Resilient Affordable Housing
(Photo by Los Muertos Crew / Pexels) Whether it’s a homeowner wanting to install a heat pump, a restaurant looking to invest in solar panels, or a neighborhood organization hoping to add local green...
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How Big-Box Stores Can Help Low-Income Communities Go Solar
(Photo by Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images via Grist) This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Across the nation, strip malls,...
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The Weekly Wrap: Poughkeepsie Could Be New York’s Next Rent Regulated City
(Photo by Zalo / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap! Next month, we’re hosting our first-ever film festival and we’re super excited about it. The Ecometropolis Film Festival will feature...
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