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Helping Queer Seniors Age in Place – and in Community
Oak Lawn Place opened in Dallas in the fall of 2024. (Photo by James Steinkamp / Perkins & Will) This story was originally published in Real Estate for Good, a new newsletter focused on how real...
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Which Side Are You On? Trump Admin Guts Key Support for Manufacturing Jobs
(Photo courtesy Urban Manufacturing Alliance) As of today, if you own or work for a manufacturing business in Delaware, Hawaii, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, or...
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The Weekly Wrap: The Era of Funding Cuts and Lawsuits
(Photo by Getty Images / 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...
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We Need To Completely Rethink Affordable Housing. Here’s How To Start.
Highland Terrace Apartments, which Enterprise Community Partners helped to fund, opened on Oct. 4, 2024 in Richmond, Virginia. (Photo courtesy Enterprise Community Partners / Stephen Bobb Photography)...
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As Temperatures Rise, Funding for Air Conditioning Is in Limbo
(Photo by Mohamed hamdi / Unsplash+) This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. The summer of 2021 was brutal for residents of the Pacific Northwest....
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What Cuts and Changes at the SBA Could Mean for Cities
Brooklyn Cooperative Federal Credit Union’s oldest branch. In 2025, the credit union will relocate to a building that it owns nearby. (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) Since 2016, Jesus Flores has gone to...
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A Massachusetts Home Electrification Pilot Could Offer a National Model
(Photo by Los Muertos Crew / Pexels) This story was originally published by Canary Media. A first-of-its-kind pilot to electrify homes on Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard is set to finish construction...
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A New Indigenous Birth Center Is ‘Nothing but Good Medicine’
Members and supporters of the Birth Justice Collaborative at the Minnesota Senate Health and Human Services Committee. (Photo courtesy Birth Justice Collaborative) This story was co-published with The...
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How One Credit Union Is Taking on Hawaii’s Housing Crisis
KFCU's Kilauea branch. (Photo courtesy KFCU) When Hazelmae Overturf relocated from Seattle, Washington, for a new job on the island of Kaua‘i in 2022, the credit union executive ran into one of the...
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The Weekly Wrap: Trump Effectively Shuts Down Federal Homelessness Agency
A meeting of the United States Interagency Council on Homelessness in 2014. (Photo by U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development) Welcome back to The Weekly Wrap, our Friday roundup of stories that...
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How Social Housing Won in Seattle, Despite a Flood of Big Tech Money
Social housing advocates rally outside Seattle's Amazon Spheres after the company dumped $100,000 into the opposition campaign. (Photo courtesy House Our Neighbors) This story was co-published in...
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A Santa Ana Community Land Trust Energizes Innovation and Resists Displacement
Ana Urzua (center), executive director of Cooperacion Santa Ana, speaks during an event at La Colmena on March 21, 2025. (Photo by Felipe Ramirez of Wisteria Content / Graphic by Deonna Anderson) This...
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In Uncertain Times, the Port of Oakland Goes Electric
The Port of Oakland currently handles ships carrying 4,000 containers, but these are fast being superseded by bigger vessels (up to 13,000 containers) that need more power while in port. (Photo by...
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These Black Architects Are Helping Rebuild Altadena After the L.A. Wildfires
Architect and coalition leader Charles Bryant stands near the remains of his home, which burned down in the Eaton Fire. (Photo by William Jenkins / AfroLA) This story was co-published with AfroLA,...
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The Weekly Wrap: This Foundation Is Stepping Up Funding for Nonprofits
(Photo by Sandra Seitamaa / 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...
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Placemaking in the Shadows of Tulum’s Luxury Resorts
The launch party for the The Chillin’ Orange, a co-designed project in La Invasión (Photo courtesy Dila Ozyazici) Some 1,500 years ago, the Mayan people built a city on what is now Mexico’s Yucatan...
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Tech Can Help Cities Rebuild Civic Life, If We Let People In
(Illustration by Zyanya Citlalli / Unsplash+) We hear it all the time: America is hopelessly divided, our politics irreparably broken. But if you spend time talking with everyday people across...
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An Indigenous Credit Union Is Leaning into Mobile Banking
(Photo courtesy Lakota FCU) When Lakota Federal Credit Union opened its doors in 2012 in Kyle, South Dakota, access to a financial institution was severely limited for the people of Pine Ridge...
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Impact Investing Isn’t Dead
(Photo by Rodion Kutsaiev / Unsplash+) Reports of impact investing’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Despite all the turmoil, uncertainty and harm faced by the country’s most vulnerable...
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Want To Attract Business to Your City? Focus On Making People Feel Safe.
(Photo by Victoria Pickering / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) This story was originally published by The Conversation. To attract business investment, American cities and states offer companies billions of dollars...
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