In 2024, nearly 2,000 apartments opened in former schools. Some see the conversions as a cure for neighborhood blight. Others ...
A new public art project will install poems across Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood — written by residents processing loss, gun violence and grief together.
Heirs’ property issues can block disaster survivors from accessing FEMA assistance. In eastern Kentucky, free legal clinics ...
ChiFresh Kitchen, a worker-owned commercial food services cooperative that launched in May 2020, is on Chicago’s West Side. At its one-year mark, the co-op was serving 500 meals per day, and it bought ...
Op-ed: Aggressive construction targets dominate the national housing agenda. But without seriously confronting land speculation, building housing won’t deliver affordability.
Op-ed: Congress is weighing a ban on institutional investors buying houses. But we can address the bigger problem by giving ...
Albany, California, now boasts one of the nation’s most progressive ethical investment policies. "A lot of other cities can do this,” one organizer says.
Chicago mayor under fire over TIF use, rural counties want cities to take responsibility for “buy and dry” land deals, and more.
BB House (left), part of a mixed-use renovation, and Capitol View (right), affordable condos developed by Habitat for Humanity. Both are single-staircase apartment buildings in Seattle. (Photos by ...
Investor-owned utilities have been slow to ditch oil and gas. The city of Ann Arbor plans to boost access to renewables through a new dual-service model.
In Philly’s Germantown, residents are learning practical preparedness skills — from water storage to power outage planning — ...
Op-ed: Today, the prison island immortalizes a man who sold Black New Yorkers into slavery. Once the prison is shut down, the ...