Op-ed: The loss of federal buyout assistance is a wake-up call to create state and local programs that protect communities living with chronic environmental risk.

What Free Transit Looks Like in Albuquerque, Nearly Two Years After the City Eliminated Fares While some cities are walking back their zero-fare initiatives, Albuquerque sees free transit as a ...

‘We Opened a Door Nobody Knew Existed’: How Displaced Black Families Won Reparations in Portland A historic settlement returns $8.5 million and land to Black families displaced by a decades-old ...

San Diego Artists in the city’s historic Barrio Logan are pushing for stronger ordinances to protect public art, as cultural murals are being erased without proper legal notice.

This story was originally published by Shelterforce, an independent, non-academic publication covering affordable housing, community development and housing justice. Advocates for good cause eviction ...

A New Study Proves Criminalizing Homelessness Doesn’t Reduce Homelessness "The deterrence logic doesn’t hold": A recent analysis finds that encampments bans and other local ordinances aimed at ...

An Atlanta Makerspace Revitalizes Lives, Small Businesses – and a Neighborhood With an apprenticeship program and top-of-the-line tools, MASS Collective is helping local artisans grow their businesses ...

Cool Roofs or Urban Trees: Which Solution Is Best For Fighting Extreme Heat? Cities are seeking low-cost ways to ease the heat island effect. Researchers found benefits and trade-offs in two popular ...

You Call It Illegal. I Call It Desperation. Op-ed: Before you judge the unlicensed dentist, ask why her patients had nowhere else to go. The real crisis is our failure to make health care accessible ...

Calgary shows that run-of-the-mill political squabbles also impact water fluoridation — not just conspiracy theories — and that lawmakers can change their minds.

The Weekly Wrap: A New Executive Order Will Make It Easier For Cities To Remove Unhoused People New levels of investor-owned housing, support ends for Black farmers, and more.

About Next City Solutions for Just and Equitable Cities Next City’s journalism centers marginalized voices while amplifying solutions to the problems that oppress people in cities. At a time when ...