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To use AI tools effectively, local leaders must optimize documents and information for AI, implement guardrails, and rely on human expertise to evaluate risks and benefits.
How can cities, hospitals, and universities better partner to boost inclusive growth? How anchor institutions and local governments can partner to help communities thrive.Federal spending on children: What’s up? What’s down? Spending on K-12 education, early education and care, nutrition and social services fell in 2014, while spending on children's health increased.Single-family homes can help address the affordable rental-housing crisis More than half the rental units in the United States are single family. Why do government programs to increase affordable rental housing exclude them?Pope Francis: Shining a light on jail in America What you should know about the pope's upcoming visit to a Philadelphia jail.Pope Francis: Shining a light on jail in America What you should know about the pope's upcoming visit to a Philadelphia jail.Q&A: Joseph Shuldiner on housing, community, and the future of Yonkers Housing authority director Shuldiner explains more about the legacy of the housing struggle in Yonkers, and what other cities can learn from it.