Immigrant-serving nonprofit newsrooms are doing essential work meeting the information needs of immigrant communities in general and in this critical time in particular. This session will explore how ...

After 10 years and just $16.7 million in repairs — a sliver of what’s needed to fix Detroit’s aging homes — a city-backed ...

The environmental costs of strikes on Iran, San Diego County sues over blocked inspection at ICE detention center, and more.

Expanding access to home finance did not eliminate the structural barriers Detroiters faced as they tried to repair their homes, Nicholas L. Caverly writes in his new book. Nor did demolitions.

Op-ed: The built environment shapes how communities mourn, remember and heal. Urban planning can suppress that process – or make space for it.

Op-ed: Sports events, conventions and festivals produce massive food surpluses. Local policies can redirect that food to ...

Whistles – some 3D-printed, distributed in coffee shops and churches – have become a fixture in neighborhoods where residents are seeking ways to warn one another in real time. In some neighborhoods, ...

Op-ed: The Cedar Avenue and Hamline Park filter blockades showed how neighbors protect neighbors, using the only tool available — control of public space — to create safety when no institution will ...

Lexington used a $1 million public contract to wipe out millions in hospital bills. In rural Paducah, organizers are ...

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 ...

California has funded immigrant legal defense against deportation for a decade. Now, more cities and counties are kicking in ...

As budgets tighten, nonprofits and cities alike are launching centralized help desks to help residents navigate scarce ...