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What Congestion Pricing Did For One City
(Photo by Nazrin Babashova / Unsplash) In the wake of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul derailing plans for congestion pricing in Manhattan, StreetsblogNYC editor-in-chief Gersh Kuntzman and Streetfilms...
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Chicago’s Unique Bike Giveaway Program Is a Win for Mobility Justice
Bikes in storage before a distribution event. (Photo courtesy Hani Shamat / SUMC) When the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) launched its Bike Chicago program in the summer of 2022, the city...
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Pennsylvania Legalized Speed Cameras. You Won’t Believe What Happened Next.
(Photo by toine G / Unsplash) The results are in: Speed cameras save lives, according to a study from the University of Pennsylvania. This is great news for cities and states seeking to reduce traffic...
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The Federal Funding To Make Clean Energy Equitable Is Here. It’s Up To Cities...
(Photo by Los Muertos Crew / Pexels) A clean-energy revolution is upon us, as cost-saving solar power and other green technologies become more widely available. But not everyone can take advantage of...
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It’s Time For Commercial Landlords and Cities to Face the Music
(Photo by Nicholas Kampouris / Unsplash) A version of this op-ed was originally published on PostAlley.org and has been adapted with permission. Blank street walls and empty storefronts have become a...
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The Weekly Wrap: In Oakland, An Experiment in Community Traffic Enforcement
People in Oakland. (Photo by Corey Agopian / Unsplash) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of stories that explain the problems oppressing people in cities and elevate the solutions...
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The Government Is Failing To Meet Refugees’ Basic Needs. We’re Picking Up the...
Yasmeen Zargarpur (center), co-founder of One Community Social Services, stands in front of the organization's warehouse of supplies for resettling refugees. (Photo courtesy One Community Social...
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Cities Want To Give Workers Heat Breaks. States Are Stopping Them.
(Photo courtesy Ivette Carolina Agudelo-Lopez + Yerba Buena Engineering & Construction, Inc) This summer’s most recent heat wave has broken temperature records in nearly 50 cities across the...
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Chicago’s “People’s Cooling Army” Is Giving Tenants Free Air Conditioners
Perhaps the most basic demand of a tenant is that the living space they pay for is, in fact, livable. Yet as extreme heat becomes the norm, organizers claim that for many low-income Chicago renters,...
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Minnesota’s New Green Bank Is Powering a Net-Zero, Mixed-Use Development With...
An artist's rendering of the planned residential development at The Heights, a mixed-use development slated to bring 1,000 living wage jobs,1,000 affordable housing units, and strong environmental...
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I’ve Been Homeless In Oregon. I Know the Supreme Court’s Ruling Will Only...
(Photo by Levi Meir Clancy / Unsplash+) When community supervision in Benton County, Oregon enforced homelessness on me, I had two choices: Invest in a tent, car, RV, old school bus, etc., or rent a...
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The Weekly Wrap: Biden Suggests 5% Rent Cap for Federally-Funded Homes but...
(Photo by Jason Leung / Unsplash) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of stories that explain the problems oppressing people in cities and elevate the solutions that bring us closer to...
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Using Vacant Commercial Spaces As Affordable Artist Studios Is a Win-Win
Zero Empty Spaces celebrates the opening of its 26th location in St. Petersburg, Florida, inside Simon Property Group's Tyrone Square Mall, on July 30, 2022 with the initial resident artists of the...
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Not Just Dead White Men: Boston’s “Un-Monument” Project Sets Out To Undo...
(Photo by Nietnagel / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) In an audit of national monuments, the Monument Lab found that most monuments commemorate — surprise! — white men. Who from history gets cast in bronze — and who...
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Seattle Is Walking Back Its Promises on Community-Led Anti-Displacement. Is...
(Photo by Jean-Pierre Chamberland / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) When it launched a first-in-the-nation anti-displacement fund in 2016, Seattle established itself as a leader in racial equity. But a new attack on...
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What Cities Can Learn From How Tokyo and Toronto Approach Transit-Oriented...
Left: Construction of the future King and Bathurst station, a transit-oriented development project that will be part of Toronto’s Ontario Line. Right: A rendering of the futute King-Bathurst station....
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Helping Refugees Build Their New Lives in Virginia – Starting With a Driver’s...
Marie, a client of Reestablish Richmond, practices driving in preparation for earning her license. (Photo courtesy ReEstablish Richmond) In the longer term, urbanists advocate for walkable, bikeable...
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What I Saw at the Discover-Capital One Merger Hearing
A Capital One bank in New York City's West Village and Greenwich Village neighborhood.(Photo by Can Pac Swire / CC BY-NC 2.0) This analysis was published as part of The Bottom Line, my weekly...
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The Weekly Wrap: Rights Group Ask Justice Department To Investigate War...
(Photo by Jeff Turner / CC BY 2.0) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of stories that explain the problems oppressing people in cities and elevate the solutions that bring us closer...
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Nonprofit Fund Raises Private Dollars To Buy Affordable Housing – Before...
One of the properties acquired by the CS Large Cities Housing Fund in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo courtesy Community Solutions) The housing and homelessness nonprofit Community Solutions found...
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