Most Americans live in metropolitan areas, and it takes a metropolitan regional government to coordinate the growth in housing, transit, and employment that makes the region livable.
Cities & Communities
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rollups: All Monopolies Are Local
How one supermarket chain, Stop & Shop, abuses property transfers to frustrate competition
Posted inEconomic Policy
Remote Workers Punch Holes in City Revenues
Cities hard hit by the pandemic economic slowdown maneuver to keep local income taxes flowing.
Posted inHousing
America’s Hidden Fire Kindling
Federally subsidized housing complexes, many of them owned by for-profit investors, fail to enforce basic safety standards.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Can a Billionaire’s Son Save Local Media—and a City?
A community news service in New York’s Hudson Valley is finding out the hard way.
Posted inPolitics
Racism, Xenophobia, and Cultural Incompetence
With a generous helping of COVID-19. This is Senior Editor Gabrielle Gurley’s Best of 2021.
Posted inHousing
Washington Moves to Clear Unhoused People From Encampments
Social welfare advocates say these evictions are counterproductive and cruel.
Posted inHousing
Polite, Legal, and Unacknowledged: The Devastating Biases of Well-Heeled Suburbia
Build Back Better highlights how upper-income whites engage in discrimination every bit as harmful as that ascribed to working-class whites. It also aims to stop it.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
New York Utilities Polarize Over Push to Ban Natural Gas
A proposed gas ban has pitted ConEd against Big Oil, real estate lobbyists, and other investor-owned utilities.
Posted inWorking in America
Throwing Money at People—Not Corporations—to Come to Town
Tulsa pays remote workers to move there, and it’s proved to be a better strategy than paying corporations to relocate there.