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State and Local Policymakers Could Look Abroad to Inform an Inclusive Recovery from the COVID-19 Pandemic

The pandemic highlighted the structural racism that upholds our political and economic systems and has long disadvantaged Asian, Black, Latinx, Indigenous, and Pacific Islander people and communities in this country.
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Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros

How Local Governments Can Advance Health Equity through Their Built Environments

Prioritizing and understanding the experience of populations with barriers to healthy environments is key to promote health equity in a community.
Housing and Housing Finance

Housing Codes Should Protect Public Health, Not Penalize Low-Income Homeowners

A recent Vice article featured a low-income homeowner who's facing jail time because she couldn't afford home repairs.
Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros

Five Elements Cities Need to Address "Hypervacancy" and Catalyze Neighborhood Recovery

Reclaiming vacant properties is a complex problem requiring collaborative approaches.
Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros

The $10 Million “Chicago Prize” Seeks to Boost Neighborhood Revitalization

The Pritzker Traubert Foundation seeks to support revitalization projects on the South and West Sides of Chicago.
Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros

Housing market revival is key to Detroit’s economic recovery

Housing and Housing Finance

Communities cannot wait for federal action on unsafe foreclosures

A new wave of unsafe houses called "sick homes" have exited foreclosure only to be resold to unknowing residents, harming families and communities.
Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros

How can researchers work with practitioners to help Detroit’s comeback?

Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros

Lessons from Memphis’s collaborative campaign against blight

The city's first blight charter codifies the ambitious vision that all neighborhoods have the right to be free from the harms that blight causes.

COVID-19: Policies to Protect People and Communities

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COVID-19: Policies to Protect People and Communities

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Critical Value: An Urban Institute Podcast

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Critical Value: An Urban Institute Podcast

Structural Racism in America

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Structural Racism in America

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