Are check cashing spots yet another way that big businesses prey on the poor and waste their money? The answer is actually more multifaceted than you might think.
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In closing many neighborhood schools over the years, my local school district has walked away from neighborhoods that are already struggling, making the situation in those places much worse.
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From inner-city Birmingham to small town Iowa to racially diverse suburbs of LA, the walkability movement is growing.
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In many zip codes where households are most dense, job opportunities are some of the least available. These maps show the challenges of addressing this problem.
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A recent shift in federal housing policy may give low-income families a true choice in where they live, enabling them to find homes is safe, well-resourced neighborhoods.
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Do we want to make life easy on the experts, or make Detroit a better place that can also pay its bills?
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When cities grow organically, they are productive platforms for generating wealth.
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I have a unique perspective on the topic of the working class, the poor, and the homeless. It isn’t an abstraction for me. I experienced these things directly in my own life.
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We need to build cities where mixed-income neighborhoods are the norm, not the exception.
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Residents in poor neighborhoods face health issues, unemployment, deteriorating infrastructure and no way to get out.
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While the most common image of poverty is a high-rise public housing project, in fact many of America’s poor live in the very type of neighborhood where investment is impeded by current financing regulations.
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Federal loan programs do not support the mixed-use, multi-family development essential to these communities.
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Growing numbers of young and old Americans prefer to live in communities where they can walk to stores, school, services, parks and public transportation. But federal housing rules make it difficult to meet this demand.
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Let's not turn our backs on the wage earners of this country but actually try to understand why they are getting the worst deal of all from the Suburban Experiment.
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The key problem with Walmart is that it systematically depends on the poverty of communities.
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The auto-oriented development pattern is a huge financial experiment with massive social, cultural and political ramifications. It is time to start building strong towns.
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We can’t over-simplify the dynamics of all that has happened in Ferguson, but it’s obvious that our platform for building places is creating dynamics primed for social upheaval. The auto-oriented development pattern is a huge financial experiment with massive social, cultural and political ramifications.
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