Economic Development
A Model for Restoring the Rust Belt
Deindustrialization hit Chicago's south suburbs hard. Can the Southland Development Authority breathe new life into the area and promote a template for reviving regions?
Tag: Housing
Economic Development
Closing the Rental Wealth Gap
For nearly a century, US policy prioritized homeownership to build middle-class wealth—leaving many renters behind. But innovative new renter-wealth models are enabling renters to access the American dream.
Education
Searching for Good Vibes
There's validity to the common explanations for the "vibecession," but articles in this issue go deeper into the longer-term loss of agency, growing disbelief in upward mobility, and instability at the root of many people's lives.
Nonprofits & NGOs
Emergency Housing
Airbnb.org, the nonprofit arm of the homestay-platform company, is providing short-term homes to families in crisis, first responders, and medical patients worldwide.
Technology
When Landlords Make Exceptions
Even when landlords use algorithms for tenant screenings, exceptions to the rules are part of the process.
Impact Investing
Liquidity Is the Missing Elixir in Impact Investing
Impact strategies must reckon with the problem that capital is frequently trapped in highly illiquid investments with no prospect of exit.
Advocacy
Making the Case for Equitable Housing
Abundance and justice aren't mutually exclusive. Narrative lessons from three major advocacy movements of recent years.
Government
Could We Radically Redesign Homelessness Services Around Outcomes?
Why the current system is broken and what local governments, nonprofits, and philanthropists could do to change it.
Review
Cities
When Houses Are Not Homes
Peter Apps' Homesick argues that beneath the housing crisis of rents and shortages is a deeper history of community-unbuilding.
Philanthropy & Funding
Planning Equitable Cities
Smart Growth America's new Center for Zoning Solutions offers a headquarters for the zoning reform movement.