Data from North Carolina points to a nationwide problem: that services may be going unfunded in your community because of flawed processes, sloppy math, and lack of respect for the law in the property tax system.
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Los Angeles lost a hundred thousand affordable homes in a decade. Don’t look to bulldozers to explain how.
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The Christmas Cookie Inflation Index has risen 12.0% in the last year. This is compared to the official inflation rate of 7.7%.
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Stunning new data analysis on the homes lost to tax forfeiture in Detroit shows that, in just a three-year span, $300 million in real estate transferred from homeowners living in Detroit to outside owners.
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From Housatonic Community College to Yale: The story of a 20-mile walk along I-95.
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From its one-time status as one of America’s most prosperous cities, Hartford, CT, is now one of the poorest—no thanks to its mid-twentieth-century urban renewal projects.
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This nonprofit has created a template for what a 21st-century, regenerative community could look like; one that asks us what we really want for our future—and means it.
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Let’s explore the idea of inflation being “good.”
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The Christmas Cookie Inflation Index has risen 10.6% in the last year. This is compared to the official inflation rate of 6.8%.
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It’s hard to meaningfully engage with the poor when everything about our cities is designed to steer us away from them.
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We must stop seeing poor neighborhoods as "bad" neighborhoods, and instead understand them as intrinsically goods ones, whose problems are addressable if we empowered the people who care about them.
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What would an incremental, fiscally responsible and local approach to solving homelessness look like?
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Small investments in poor neighborhoods are the best way for a community to build wealth. They are also the best way to lift people out of poverty without displacing them from their neighborhood.
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Hacer inversiones pequeñas en barrios pobres es el mejor modo de aumentar la riqueza. También, son el mejor modo de ayudar a la gente a salir de la pobreza sin desplazarse del barrio.
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Young people shouldn’t have to choose between living in the place they grew up and pursuing a prosperous life.
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When you make community-led, incremental redevelopment all but impossible, what you get is the wholesale reinvention of neighborhoods in somebody else’s image instead.
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The recent remake of a classic video game features an unusual setting—an urban slum—and some surprising real-world insights about how people who have nothing build a place that’s worth something.
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Most neighborhoods face a stark choice between the trickle or the fire hose: either virtually no new development or investment, or cataclysmic change that leaves a place unrecognizable. We need to get out of this destructive dichotomy.
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If you’re nostalgic for the past, give it up. We’re not going back. We must start with what has been given us and figure out what to do with it.
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Does walkability promote economic mobility? A new study suggests so. But will planners, engineers, and policy-makers take notice?
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