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Post-Partum Depression Is Costing Us Billions. Can Cities Help?
(Photo by Natalia Blauth / Unsplash+) This story was co-published with The 19th, a nonprofit newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy Amaryllis Castillo gets to work at 7:45 a.m. for her job...
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Q&A: Creating More Racially Equitable Underwriting
(Photo by Planet Volumes / Unsplash) Traditional lending systems are rampant with practices that uphold systemic racism. An analysis of 2021 first-lien home equity loans showed that the applicant...
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These Artisans Built a Co-op Alternative to Etsy
(Photo by Ahmet Kurt / Unsplash+) In 2022, Etsy’s earnings topped $109 million in consolidated net income. “Despite significant macroeconomic headwinds, we maintained the vast majority of our pandemic...
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Enough Talk. It’s Time for Transportation Agencies To Finally Remove Some...
(Photo by Abraham Barrera / Unsplash) Recent years have brought a new wave of excitement in American cities around the concept of highway removal. But examples of highway removals in the U.S. are few...
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How Minneapolis and Austin Beat New York City in the Quest to Enable More...
Single-family homes line a residential block in Jamaican, Queens. (Photo by Ben Fractenberg / THE CITY) This story was originally published by The City. Sign up here to get the latest stories from...
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Breaking Down Barriers to Banking for Immigrant Communities
(Photo by Getty Images / Unsplash+) Citizenship status, language barriers and a lack of documentation are just some of the many factors that lead new Americans and undocumented residents to go...
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The Weekly Wrap: New York City Passes Sweeping Housing Plan
(Photo by Goh Rhy Yan / 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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Next City’s Most Popular Stories of 2024
(Photo by Antoni Shkraba / Pexels) Between failed ballot measures, attacks on DEI and threats on nonprofits, it can be hard for advocates and lawmakers to keep pushing forward in their fight to...
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Are Digital Navigators the Answer To Closing Philly’s Tech Gap?
The nonprofit Beyond Literacy and City of Philadelphia's Office of Innovation and Technology distribute laptops (Photo courtesy Monica Quinones-Rivera) This story was originally published by...
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The Lessons L.A.’s Anti-Olympics Organizers Are Taking From Paris
An action by the anti-Olympics protest group Le revers de la médaille, or The Other Side of the Medal, in December 2023. (Photo by Phineas Rueckert) On Nov. 3, a group of young people armed with...
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Philly Nonprofits Are Stepping Up To Protect Residents’ SNAP Access
A client and worker at Philadelphia's PASSi, Penn Asian Senior Services. (Photo by Sabina Louise Pierce / The Philadelphia Citizen) This story was originally published by The Philadelphia Citizen. On...
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The “Bank Black & Green” Campaign Is Funneling Millions Away From Fossil...
Stephone Coward is the founder of the Bank Black & Green. Since the Paris Agreement went into effect in late 2016, 60 of the world’s largest private banks have funneled $6.9 trillion to the fossil...
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New York City Needs More Mobile Soup Kitchens
TheGrand Central Food Program, run by the Coalition for the Homeless, is the country's largest mobile soup kitchen. (Screenshot from YouTube) Bo is an uninsured elderly man with chronic knee pain....
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What Started as Emergency Housing Could Offer a Model for Ending Homelessness...
(Photo courtesy of Hope Center via Shelterforce) This article was original published by Shelterforce, an independent, non-academic publication covering affordable housing, community development and...
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The Weekly Wrap: Tax Hikes on High Earners Funds Childcare in D.C.
(Photo by Curated Lifestyle) This is the last Weekly Wrap of 2024. We’re going on hiatus for the next couple of weeks to rest. We hope you’ll take the time you need to rejuvenate too. We’ll be back in...
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Energy Communities Are Gaining Ground in Spain
(Photo courtesy European Science Communication Institute) Across the European Union, traditional energy systems are still dominated by centralized fossil fuel power plants, slowing the transition to...
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