People facing housing loss often have to move quickly, without funds. These volunteers are there to help.
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Here are the basic steps any company will need to go through to give workers ownership.
A North Nashville market that showcases Black-owned small businesses helps invigorate their community.
Community land trusts have a long history of helping people afford a home. In a time of skyrocketing housing prices, that’s more important than ever.
The real estate industry has long had a Whiteness problem. An emerging Black developer in Baltimore is challenging the state to help fix the appraisal gap and other injustices.
Wichita, Kansas, is using about 70% of its vouchers to help unsheltered people and those fleeing domestic violence, one of the highest usage rates in the country.
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Republican America is poorer, more violent, and less healthy than Democratic America. But Republicans’ blame is misplaced.
The philanthropic sector needs to shift its focus toward those organizations that best understand the communities they serve.
A tech startup has developed a way to bridge the nutrition gap for families, at least in the short term.
Federal money for housing the pandemic wasn’t being spent. The city found a way to make sure more people were being housed sooner.
Two guaranteed income projects in New York City and Atlanta are showing how modest monthly cash payments to low-income women of color can make a huge difference in alleviating race and gender-based economic inequities.
Bad managers, burnout, and health fears are causing record numbers of workers to quit the industry for good.
Building an ecological civilization is the only way forward to saving both the planet and humanity. And time is running out.
One often-overlooked aspect of Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and career was his strong support of labor unions, calling them America’s first anti-poverty program.
Jason Tartt saw opportunity in the terraced hillsides of his native West Virginia, both for restoring the land and for other Black farmers.
A major for-profit affordable housing provider hasn’t evicted a single tenant since early 2020. How did the company do it, and can its method be a model for other developers?
A team of Portland activists is working to keep Black residents in their homes with maintenance and upgrades.
A group of activists in the German capital are pushing an ambitious plan to eliminate private vehicles in the city center, an area twice as big as Manhattan.
The city of Brno’s growing migrant population had been mostly served by NGOs. It wasn’t enough. So the city brought the work in-house.
The likely outcome of the Dobbs decision will have far-reaching effects on women’s health, both physiological and financial.
President Biden has already committed to addressing systemic racism. Here’s a good place to start.
Unchecked inflation can be damaging, but what we’re seeing in the U.S. is a fundamentally different issue: one in which inflation is being politicized.
The public banking movement is creating an opening wedge for the transfer of our financial system from private to public control.
The pandemic has changed what we mean by “restaurant” to include market hybrids, more takeout, less brick-and-mortar—and more restaurants that want to upend the hierarchy that defines dining out.
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