Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the national spotlight on systemic racism, 2020 brought into sharp relief a number of technical and adaptive challenges facing the nation’s…
The federal government’s controversial fair housing rule is back in play, which makes the release of a new book about it timely indeed.
In 2015, during the Obama…
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In response to the ongoing, multifaceted crises created by the COVID-19 pandemic, many of Boston’…
When Gustavo Petro, a self-described radical, was elected mayor of Bogota, Colombia in 2012, he embraced policies aimed at densifying that city, making it more sustainable,…
The city of Houston could better protect and aid the approximately 18,000 people who live in the city’s repeated flood prone areas if it created an integrated home buyout…
While some researchers have studied how historical community transformations and neighborhood contexts can shape voting patterns, few have examined what happens locally after…
The primary sources of contemporary lead exposure are chipping paint, water pipes, and lead remaining in soil from gasoline exhaust and smelting plants. Household lead paint…
In her closing remarks at the recent Foundations for the Future of Housing Conference, Julia Stasch, past president of the MacArthur Foundation, astutely observed that years…
While gentrification has been occurring in Seattle for several decades, the racial and ethnic composition of its gentrifying areas has changed in significant ways, according…
Around the world, mayors and other urban officials confront significant obstacles when they try to use investments in social housing to help make their cities more inclusive…
