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?
Economy
A historic victory over the fashion industry in California is creating ripples for global change.
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.
Reparations, debt cancellation, and climate justice are all regular features in climate solutions—but what do they mean in practice?
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.
Conventional banking hasn't worked for businesses owned by people of color. But a new network is designed to get money flowing fairly to BIPOC economies.
How to decolonize wealth through reparations.
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.
The Mountain State is mostly White, but one Black journalist looks to create the first publication for her community since 2006.
These investment firms face fewer disclosure and transparency rules. So their investors—public pension funds—need to hold them accountable.
Today’s subminimum wages are a legacy of racist policies that date from the Civil War.
The residential and employment program on a North Carolina organic farm helps formerly incarcerated women find a new path.
The destruction of burial mounds in Detroit paralleled the displacement and genocide of Indigenous peoples throughout the United States.
After years of grassroots activism, the city has found success in addressing historical housing discrimination through community land trusts.
Occupy Wall Street gave the left ideas, skills, and a base in a way no one could have imagined a decade ago. The radicalization of a generation, the ability to easily explain class, the potential for mass nonviolent direct action, and crowbarring politics to let in socialist ideas and elected officials are all invaluable legacies.
We can’t talk about corruption and tax dodging around the world when we’re encouraging it at home.
T-shirt entrepreneurs-turned-farmers are turning an abandoned elementary school into a community hub.
And how tax havens—including in the U.S.—are used to hide money from tax authorities.
The Bush administration used the attacks to label dissent and protests against international trade agreements as terrorism. Now movements have recovered their lost momentum.
Talks of work-life balance often exclude low-wage women workers of color. Including them means investing in basic policies like equal pay and paid time off.
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