Only Embark with Everyone in Mount Vernon Aboard
Residents concerned transportation revitalization could leave Mount Vernon affordability in the dust.
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A Virginia school district isn’t hiring enough teachers of color — but the problem is national
A Virginia school district is trying to hire more teachers of color through a changed recruitment and hiring approach.
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Denver Schools Focus on Educating Low-Income Students of Color
Though the educational system changes and progresses over the years, there are still a lot of things that need to be addressed. At least that’s what they thought in Denver.
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Young People of Color Are the Future of America's Workforce
The U.S. racial leadership gap is widening right in front of our faces, and the key to expediting change starts with enabling our young people of color.
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Making Rent and Rent-Making
Tenants in Minneapolis are organizing for a practice with a long and varied history: rent control.
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Segregation is alive and well in Texas’ public schools
In 1954, the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision deemed state-sponsored segregation in public schools unconstitutional. This landmark case overturned the concept of “separate but equal” schooling and created an America where every child, no matter the color of their skin, is...
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Hurricane Harvey Didn't Discriminate. The Recovery Is A Different Matter.
The water burbled from the floors of Vickie Carson’s cottage in the semirural northern edge of Houston, saturating everything she owned.
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Renters in Providence protest rising rents, evictions, and public subsidies for luxury development as part of national #RenterWeekOfAction
As part of the national Renter Week of Action, Providence renters gathered in City Hall, outside of Mayor Jorge Elorza’s office on Wednesday, September 20th to protest increasingly unaffordable rents, poor housing conditions, and public subsidies for high-end developers.
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Here's How Much Extra Cash You'd Have If Rent Were Affordable
Imagine, if you will, that you only had to pay the recommended maximum of 30% of your income on rent. For a family earning $100,000, that would be $2,500 a month. Not exactly chump change, to be sure — but still not enough to afford even a median-priced two-bedroom apartment in cities like New...
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Stagnant Wages, Rising Rents Create Strong Demand For Affordable Housing
California cities are faced with a challenging housing situation. Wages have hit a plateau or are in some cases decreasing, while rents continue to rise.
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Tenants Push Back Against Corporate Landlords During "Renter Week of Action"
In her five years renting from notorious Minneapolis slumlord Stephen Frenz and his Apartment Shop LLC, Molly Hasbrook, who is the building captain for her apartment unit, has seen it all. "Lots of ignored maintenance issues, some very major, cockroaches for about three years that weren't...
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If Rent Were Affordable, the Average Household Would Save $6,200 a Year
A new analysis points to the benefits of ending the severe affordability crisis.
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‘Renter Week’ Brings Protests to Corporate Landlord and HUD Offices
Renters in dozens of U.S. cities are organizing demonstrations this week under the banner of “National Renter Week of Action and Assemblies.” The purpose is to push back against the Trump Administration’s threat to cut billions from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and make the...
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#RenterWeekOfAction Addresses Nationwide Housing Crisis
Renters across the country are staging a week of protests to challenge rent increases, evictions and cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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L.A.'s Housing Crisis Is Now the Nation's Housing Crisis
The impact of Los Angeles' postrecession housing crisis became clear in 2014, when a UCLA report found that L.A. is "the most unaffordable rental market" in the United States.
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U.S. Cities Can Help to Achieve Worldwide Sustainability Goals
As reported Wednesday by Citiscope, a debate continues at the UN regarding whether a new “UN Urban” arm would be helpful to cities in achieving the SDGs or implementing the New Urban Agenda, a document intended to guide national and local policies on the growth and development of cities through...
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Future of America's baby boomers depends on our diverse youth
The rising visibility of white supremacy and the failure of presidential leadership regarding it have brought the pervasive role of racism in politics and society into sharp focus.
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How New Orleans Has Failed Its Workers Since Katrina
2016 was the first year since Hurricane Katrina that more people left New Orleans than moved in—that has a lot to do with the dismal job market that continues to repel young professionals.
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Charlottesville should stir conversation about our own racial divides
"And black workers earned $3 less an hour on average than white workers in Michigan in 2014, according to the National Equity Atlas. While we don’t need to remove symbols representing racial hatred in Lansing and other Michigan cities, disparities in our state between black and white people are...
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An Equity Profile of the Five-County San Francisco Bay Area Region
"Rising inequality, stagnant wages, and persistent racial inequities have put the long-term future of the booming Bay Area economy at risk, a report from PolicyLink and the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity (PERE) at the University of Southern California finds."
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Racial equity needed for LI’s growth, Urban League leader says
Discussions of racial disparities in Long Island’s social and economic fabric may be uncomfortable, but are necessary to dismantle barriers to equity faced by African-American residents and to support the overall health of Nassau and Suffolk counties, the head of the Urban League of Long Island...
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Ben Carson Said Poverty Occurs Because People Have "the Wrong Mindset"
"Poverty isn't about your state of mind as much as it is about policy and plunder." -Lincoln Blades. In this op-ed, writer Lincoln Blades explores systems that keep the poor at a disadvantage in the United States.
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The National Equity Atlas and Immigrant Integration
Immigrant integration is an important cultural, political, and economic imperative—NationalEquityAtlas.org offers nativity and ancestry data for your city, region, or state.
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"How We Ended Up Here": How America's Public School Crisis Started, and What Chance (and You) Are Doing to Help
Most of the schools where students are segregated by, race, class, language, or all three are in cities like Chicago. In February of last year, The Atlantic analyzed recent data from the National Equity Atlas and found that “kids of color represent a majority of the student body in 83 of the 100...
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Philanthropy, Equity, and The Wizard
USC Professor Manuel Pastor and PolicyLink chief Angela Glover Blackwell provided insights about how California sets the table for a national conversation that invokes a new narrative: equity and inclusion as a superior growth model for our nation’s economy.
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