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December 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Kentucky's Estill Development Alliance uses a holistic approach to combat substance abuse in youth and improve overall community health.

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This Rural County is Taking Notes from Iceland’s Drug Prevention Model
Kentucky's Estill Development Alliance uses a holistic approach to combat substance abuse in youth and improve overall community health.
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December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Early community feedback through advisory committees, surveys and public meetings help shape the mix of housing units, street designs and shared amenities in the county’s master-planned communities.

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How Kaua‘i Residents Help Shape Their Communities’ Large Affordable Housing Developments
Early community feedback through advisory committees, surveys and public meetings help shape the mix of housing units, street designs and shared amenities in the county’s master-planned communities.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Read our most popular articles on solutions for transit, mobility and infrastructure.

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Next City’s Top Stories on Transportation & Infrastructure in 2025
Read our most popular articles on solutions for transit, mobility and infrastructure.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Catch up on this year’s most-read reporting on inclusive finance, community development and economic empowerment.

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Next City’s Top Stories on Economic Justice in 2025
Catch up on this year’s most-read reporting on inclusive finance, community development and economic empowerment.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Op-ed: As New York City considers its own Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, San Francisco shows how to give nonprofits a fair chance to buy homes — without freezing development or investment.

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COPA Has Helped Prevent Displacement in San Francisco. It Can Work in New York City, Too.
Op-ed: As New York City considers its own Community Opportunity to Purchase Act, San Francisco shows how to give nonprofits a fair chance to buy homes — without freezing development or investment.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Catch up on our top reporting and analysis on solutions for equitable cities – and how cities are responding to an onslaught of federal cuts.

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Next City’s Most Popular Stories of 2025
Catch up on our top reporting and analysis on solutions for equitable cities – and how cities are responding to an onslaught of federal cuts.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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Op-ed: To prepare students for the complexities of community work, two educators turn to creative writing to help ignite imagination, self-awareness and communal connection.

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Why We’re Teaching Urban Planning Students To Write Poetry
Op-ed: To prepare students for the complexities of community work, two educators turn to creative writing to help ignite imagination, self-awareness and communal connection.
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December 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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December 11, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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As the Trump administration pulled the rug out from under the nonprofit housing sector, our reporting tracked the shifting terrain for housing and homelessness.

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Next City’s Top Stories on Housing & Homelessness in 2025
As the Trump administration pulled the rug out from under the nonprofit housing sector, our reporting tracked the shifting terrain for housing and homelessness.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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New York’s participatory budgeting experiment shows there are no shortcuts — and no algorithmic fixes — for building democratic power, Celina Su writes in her new book.

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To Achieve Budget Justice, Cities Must Be Ready for the Mess
New York’s participatory budgeting experiment shows there are no shortcuts — and no algorithmic fixes — for building democratic power, Celina Su writes in her new book.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Grants are helping Altadena entrepreneurs recover, pay bills and invest in growing their businesses after the wildfires.

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These Grants Are a Lifeline for Altadena’s Fire-Impacted Small Businesses
Grants are helping Altadena entrepreneurs recover, pay bills and invest in growing their businesses after the wildfires.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Op-ed: CASA volunteers like me step in when the system fails. But without dependable funding, thousands of children may lose their only ally.

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Foster Kids Are Caught in Washington’s Funding Crossfire
Op-ed: CASA volunteers like me step in when the system fails. But without dependable funding, thousands of children may lose their only ally.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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After decades of failed mega-projects, the Kingsbridge Armory is now the site of one of the country’s most ambitious experiments in community ownership and shared control.
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This Bronx Project Is Setting a New Standard for Community-Controlled Development
After decades of failed mega-projects, the Kingsbridge Armory is now the site of one of the country’s most ambitious experiments in community ownership and shared control.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Op-ed: Fortifying Black organizers and campaigners is not optional. It is the only way to ensure creative, enduring progress when the road is blocked and the pressure is greatest.

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The Path to a Multiracial Democracy Begins With Black Organizing
Op-ed: Fortifying Black organizers and campaigners is not optional. It is the only way to ensure creative, enduring progress when the road is blocked and the pressure is greatest.
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December 11, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Join this lively and inspirational conversation about integrating culture as a key driver of community power building and learn more about the Culture & Community Power Fund.

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Role of Culture in Building Community Power
Join this lively and inspirational conversation about integrating culture as a key driver of community power building and learn more about the Culture & Community Power Fund.
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December 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Op-ed: There's a clear business case for community foundations to redirect some of their invested assets from Wall Street to Main Street through community development financial institutions.

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As Federal Cuts Threaten CDFIs, Community Foundations Can Fill the Gap
Op-ed: There's a clear business case for community foundations to redirect some of their invested assets from Wall Street to Main Street through community development financial institutions.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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A coalition of neighbors, students, researchers and elders came together to stop a proposed Sixers arena and, along the way, inspired cross-city solidarity.

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The Soft Power That Defeated a Megaproject in Philadelphia’s Chinatown
A coalition of neighbors, students, researchers and elders came together to stop a proposed Sixers arena and, along the way, inspired cross-city solidarity.
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December 8, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Meaningful gift ideas for the people working to improve our cities.
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Next City’s 2025 Gift Guide: The Best Gifts for Urbanists, City Planners & Community Advocates
Meaningful gift ideas for the people working to improve our cities.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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There’s a way to reduce both the climate and water harms of data centers: Build them in places with lots of wind and solar energy.

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How To Make Data Centers Less Thirsty
There’s a way to reduce both the climate and water harms of data centers: Build them in places with lots of wind and solar energy.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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Historian Emily Lieb’s new book “Road to Nowhere” follows the story of a thriving Black neighborhood undone by maps, myths of “blight,” and the machinery of segrenomics.

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The Highway That Didn’t Exist — and Still Unmade a Baltimore Neighborhood
Historian Emily Lieb’s new book “Road to Nowhere” follows the story of a thriving Black neighborhood undone by maps, myths of “blight,” and the machinery of segrenomics.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Op-ed: As state preemption concentrates power in white conservative hands, Mississippi's Black communities are organizing to reclaim self-determination.

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How Preemption Undoes Multiracial Democracy
Op-ed: As state preemption concentrates power in white conservative hands, Mississippi's Black communities are organizing to reclaim self-determination.
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November 26, 2025 at 4:18 PM