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In this webinar, we'll explore how the Build for Belonging framework is reshaping lending, housing, and community development by centering safety, ownership, and authenticity. Join us on Aug. 12 to hear from practitioners putting these ideas into action. nextcity.org/events/detai...
More Than Capital: Build for Belonging in Practice
What if belonging came first? Join us to explore what that could mean for how we invest in communities.
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The approach — known as respondent-driven sampling — has been used to estimate homeless populations in Washington’s King County since 2022. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
L.A. County Tests a New Approach To Counting Homeless Youth: Relying on Youth Themselves
The approach — known as respondent-driven sampling — has been used to estimate homeless populations in Washington’s King County since 2022.
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South Tower Community Land Trust started by winning its neighborhood a new park. Now it’s bought its first commercial property – and helped one small business afford a storefront in its own neighborhood. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
How a Community Land Trust Brought an Indie Bookstore to Fresno’s Tower District
South Tower Community Land Trust started by winning its neighborhood a new park. Now it’s bought its first commercial property – and helped one small business afford a storefront in its own neighborho...
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A proposed overhaul of the Community Reinvestment Act would pull hundreds of banks out of the affordable housing tax credit market, undercutting the same incentives that the Road to Housing Act is expanding. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Trump’s Proposed Reinvestment Rules Would Undermine New Housing Law
A proposed overhaul of the Community Reinvestment Act would pull hundreds of banks out of the affordable housing tax credit market, undercutting the same incentives that the Road to Housing Act is exp...
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ICE hurts employment rates, NYC supports 100 tenant groups, and more. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
The Weekly Wrap: How an Oakland Nonprofit Bought a Vacant Lot for $10
ICE hurts employment rates, NYC supports 100 tenant groups, and more.
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Op-ed: When people stop voting, we call it apathy. But civic strategist Niketa Brar has another term for it: civic trauma. Healing this, she argues, will take more than a different Democratic Party. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Fighting Americans’ Civic Trauma Will Require a New Approach to Governance
Op-ed: When people stop voting, we call it apathy. But civic strategist Niketa Brar has another term for it: civic trauma. Healing this, she argues, will take more than a different Democratic Party.
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A new study says NYC’s drivers-for-hire already outperform Waymo's national crash rate – and robotaxis cars may just increase traffic congestion. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
The Safety Case for Robotaxis Doesn’t Really Hold Up in New York City, Report Finds
A new study says NYC’s drivers-for-hire already outperform Waymo's national crash rate – and robotaxis cars may just increase traffic congestion.
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Cleveland’s A Home for Every Neighbor effort has helped 200 people leave the streets since 2024. Is it sustainable? nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
From Tent to House in 11 days: A Close Look at Cleveland’s New Response to Homelessness
Cleveland’s A Home for Every Neighbor effort has helped 200 people leave the streets since 2024. Is it sustainable?
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Rulings in cases built around environmental concerns and other issues have altered the trajectory of the developments. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
In Pausing Data Centers, Minnesota Courts Did What Local Officials Wouldn’t
Rulings in cases built around environmental concerns and other issues have altered the trajectory of the developments.
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Op-ed: New Orleans is sinking, but Black people have always known how to live in the places we were never meant to survive. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Solarpunk or Sink: Who Gets To Decide New Orleans’ Future?
Op-ed: New Orleans is sinking, but Black people have always known how to live in the places we were never meant to survive.
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More than 40 changemakers from across the country will gather in September. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Meet the 2026 Chicago Class of Next City Vanguards
More than 40 changemakers from across the country will gather in September.
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Op-ed: New Orleans is sinking, but Black people have always known how to live in the places we were never meant to survive. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Solarpunk or Sink: Who Gets To Decide New Orleans’ Future?
Op-ed: New Orleans is sinking, but Black people have always known how to live in the places we were never meant to survive.
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To get people back on the train and end their death spiral, transit agencies are reimagining stations (and trains) as joyful third spaces. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Party or Die? Transit Agencies Are Banking on Fun To Drive Ridership and Revenue
To get people back on the train and end their death spiral, transit agencies are reimagining stations (and trains) as joyful third spaces.
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Lina Khan takes the helm of Mamdani's Economic Development Agency, student loan defaults spike, and more. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
The Weekly Wrap: Toronto Is Taking On Surveillance Pricing in Retail
Lina Khan takes the helm of Mamdani's Economic Development Agency, student loan defaults spike, and more.
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Residents asked for a grocery store. A community-controlled real estate trust bought a building, partnered with a local business owner, and turned that request into a reality. nextcity.org/features/ken...
How a Neighborhood Trust Helped Bring Fresh Food Back to Kensington
Residents asked for a grocery store. A community-controlled real estate trust bought a building, partnered with a local business owner, and turned that request into a reality.
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Op-ed: Unhoused people face the risk of contracting disease from wild animals, while animals can be displaced by human presence. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Unhoused People and Wildlife Are Increasingly Coming Into Contact. Here’s How To Protect Them.
Op-ed: Unhoused people face the risk of contracting disease from wild animals, while animals can be displaced by human presence.
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Erie County just passed one of the first county-level bans on private retailers using biometric surveillance. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Retailers Are Collecting Your Biometrics. Some Local Governments Are Fighting Back.
Erie County just passed one of the first county-level bans on private retailers using biometric surveillance.
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On Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a landmark local financial cooperative celebrates 40 years of communities investing in themselves. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
The Community Organizer’s Community Development Credit Union
On Manhattan’s Lower East Side, a landmark local financial cooperative celebrates 40 years of communities investing in themselves.
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Op-ed: The new ROAD to Housing Act could take years to roll out federally, but here's where states can start making immediate progress on zoning, permitting, financing, and partnerships. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Washington May Take Years To Act on the New Housing Law. States Can Move Now.
Op-ed: The new ROAD to Housing Act could take years to roll out federally, but here's where states can start making immediate progress on zoning, permitting, financing, and partnerships.
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A Virginia family-run business is making the case for rainwater harvesting in the world’s biggest data center hub, based on its own success with a decentralized water system. Experts say it’s complicated. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Data Centers Are Draining Virginia Dry. Could Rainwater Harvesting Be the Fix?
A Virginia family-run business is making the case for rainwater harvesting in the world’s biggest data center hub, based on its own success with a decentralized water system. Experts say it’s complica...
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Op-ed: Urban infrastructure belongs to everyone. So does the work of designing cities. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Why Urban Design Needs More Urban Designers
Op-ed: Urban infrastructure belongs to everyone. So does the work of designing cities.
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Solar production takes a hit from wildfire smoke, states sue to block Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, and more. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
The Weekly Wrap: ROAD to Housing Act Passes, Bringing Long-Awaited Permitting Reforms
Solar production takes a hit from wildfire smoke, states sue to block Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, and more.
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These facilities are being built across the country without many guardrails. We've gathered five resources from organizations aiming to help residents and local leaders protect themselves. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
New York Is Blocking New Data Center Construction. Here’s What Other Communities Should Know.
These facilities are being built across the country without many guardrails. We've gathered five resources from organizations aiming to help residents and local leaders protect themselves.
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The bipartisan Road to Housing Act law will strengthen community banks and CDFIs, in turn helping lower Americans’ housing costs. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Newly-Passed Housing Reforms Includes Key Changes for Local Lenders
The bipartisan Road to Housing Act law will strengthen community banks and CDFIs, in turn helping lower Americans’ housing costs.
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The city and other supporters say the Joe Louis Greenway will help stabilize the area, but some residents are concerned about an influx of big-box stores, niche luxury and pricing out long-term and low-income residents. nextcity.org/features/det...
Detroit’s New Greenway Will Boost Mobility and Investment. Will It Bring Displacement, Too?
The city and other supporters say the Joe Louis Greenway will help stabilize the area, but some residents are concerned about an influx of big-box stores, niche luxury and pricing out long-term and lo...
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Just 60% of bikes remain in Honolulu’s bike-share system, Biki. That means people often can’t find a bike, making it harder to generate revenue and trapping the system in a sort of doom spiral. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Where Have Honolulu’s Bikis Gone?
Just 60% of bikes remain in Honolulu’s bike-share system, Biki. That means people often can’t find a bike, making it harder to generate revenue and trapping the system in a sort of doom spiral.
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A politically diverse congregation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been raising money to retire millions of dollars of medical debt in the surrounding community. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
These Church Members Disagree on Politics. Together They’re Wiping Out Medical Debt.
A politically diverse congregation in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, has been raising money to retire millions of dollars of medical debt in the surrounding community.
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Op-ed: Camden, New Jersey’s homicide rate in 2025 was four times the national average – still high, but a marked change from when it was 18 times the national average in 2012. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
How Community Activism Made Camden, New Jersey, a Model of Police Reform
Op-ed: Camden, New Jersey’s homicide rate in 2025 was four times the national average – still high, but a marked change from when it was 18 times the national average in 2012.
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Op-ed: The ROAD to Housing Act – which just became law without Trump's signature – won't deliver real affordability because it rests on two faulty economic assumptions. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
The Housing Act Trades Affordability for Builder Profits
Op-ed: The ROAD to Housing Act – which just became law without Trump's signature – won't deliver real affordability because it rests on two faulty economic assumptions.
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Op-ed: New research shows that for every dollar a public agency invests in parks and recreation, the surrounding community and local government receive at least a $3 return in economic benefits. nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Why America’s Cities Can’t Afford To Lose Their Parks
Op-ed: New research shows that for every dollar a public agency invests in parks and recreation, the surrounding community and local government receive at least a $3 return in economic benefits.
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