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Next City’s journalism centers marginalized voices while amplifying solutions to the problems that oppress people in cities.
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From COVID to natural disasters, organizers say they are using lessons learned to keep their people fed and healthy if and when SNAP benefits run dry.

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Kentucky Organizers Fill the Gaps as SNAP Delays Leave Families in Limbo
From COVID to natural disasters, organizers say they are using lessons learned to keep their people fed and healthy if and when SNAP benefits run dry.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Power & Place: A Film Series on Housing, Power & Collective Action is coming soon. Stream 3 groundbreaking docs Dec 1–14 + join the Dec 3 Filmmaker Roundtable. RSVP → watch.eventive.org/powerplace
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November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Photographer Abigail Montes brings the human stories of displacement, survival and belonging along the highway’s path into vivid focus.

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A Bronx Artist Is Reframing the Legacy of the Cross-Bronx Expressway
Photographer Abigail Montes brings the human stories of displacement, survival and belonging along the highway’s path into vivid focus.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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From New York to Denver, a look at the results of local ballot measures addressing affordable housing and housing justice.

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How Affordable Housing Fared at the Ballot Box in 2025
From New York to Denver, a look at the results of local ballot measures addressing affordable housing and housing justice.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Will the mayor-elect's bold campaign promises translate into the real world? Here’s what analysts say about feasibility, impact and challenges ahead.

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How Mayor Mamdani Could Reshape New York City
Will the mayor-elect's bold campaign promises translate into the real world? Here’s what analysts say about feasibility, impact and challenges ahead.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Op-ed: The minerals of Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's second-largest city, electrified the world, created atom bombs – and are key to greener energy.

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History Is Repeating Itself in the Congo as the World Scrambles for Minerals To ‘Go Green’
Op-ed: The minerals of Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's second-largest city, electrified the world, created atom bombs – and are key to greener energy.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Want safer streets, better transit, or faster trains?

In our new webinar, transportation advocate Carter Lavin will share practical tools and strategies for transportation advocacy.

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If You Want to Win, You’ve Got to Fight: A Guide to Effective Transportation Advocacy
Join us for a conversation inspired by transportation advocate Carter Lavin’s new book. With insights from more than 100 initiatives, Carter will share practical tools and strategies to help you build...
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October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Cities are stepping in to fill the SNAP gap, the fight against gun violence loses funds, and more.

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The Weekly Wrap: Dozens of U.S. States Sue Trump Admin Over SNAP Ending
Cities are stepping in to fill the SNAP gap, the fight against gun violence loses funds, and more.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Germantown’s grassroots organizations are coordinating to fill widening food access gaps – a glimpse at how local networks are holding the line as federal support falls through.

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With SNAP Benefits Drying Up, Philly Organizations Are Pivoting To Meet Community Needs
Germantown’s grassroots organizations are coordinating to fill widening food access gaps – a glimpse at how local networks are holding the line as federal support falls through.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Podcast: The projects across Seattle, Baltimore, Atlanta, and Boston are treating culture as essential infrastructure for equitable cities.

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‘Culture Isn’t Just Decoration’: City-Building With Culture at the Core
Podcast: The projects across Seattle, Baltimore, Atlanta, and Boston are treating culture as essential infrastructure for equitable cities.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Op-ed: If we want a city where workers can still afford to live, Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for a $30 minimum wage by 2030 is the floor, not the ceiling.

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Don’t Let New York City Become a Museum of the Working Class
Op-ed: If we want a city where workers can still afford to live, Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for a $30 minimum wage by 2030 is the floor, not the ceiling.
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October 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Today's webinar:

The long-term gains of the Southern Freedom Movement cannot be understated nor forgotten. The anti-racist community development framework calls us to remember the most effective strategies of yesterday to contextualize our strategies for tomorrow.

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The South’s Got Something to Say: Lessons Learned from the Southern Freedom Movement
The long-term gains of the Southern Freedom Movement cannot be understated nor forgotten. The anti-racist community development framework calls us to remember the most effective strategies of yesterda...
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October 29, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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A hands-on program certifying incarcerated women as heavy equipment operators offers a model for closing labor gaps and easing reentry.

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Inside a Florida Prison, Women Train To Fill Construction Workforce Gaps
A hands-on program certifying incarcerated women as heavy equipment operators offers a model for closing labor gaps and easing reentry.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Op-ed: Seven takeaways from recent research and two decades of experience in funding and managing building projects.

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What Works (and What Doesn’t) in Nonprofit Capital Grantmaking
Op-ed: Seven takeaways from recent research and two decades of experience in funding and managing building projects.
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October 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Housing authorities in Boston, as well as nearby Chelsea and Lynn, are installing plug-in heat pumps from startup Gradient to try to swiftly and affordably cut emissions.

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Boston Is Piloting Window Heat Pumps in Affordable Housing
Housing authorities in Boston, as well as nearby Chelsea and Lynn, are installing plug-in heat pumps from startup Gradient to try to swiftly and affordably cut emissions.
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October 28, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Across Minnesota, Toronto and Oakland, arts leaders are pioneering ways to sustain artists and preserve cultural spaces — from guaranteed income programs to cooperatives reclaiming real estate.

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Alternative Models For Funding and Supporting Cultural Spaces and Workers
Across Minnesota, Toronto and Oakland, arts leaders are pioneering ways to sustain artists and preserve cultural spaces — from guaranteed income programs to cooperatives reclaiming real estate.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Their own homes have been destroyed. But the Palestinians sheltering Gaza’s displaced on their agricultural lands continue their support as people brace for aid trucks to roll in.

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The Farmers Sheltering Displaced Palestinians on Their Land
Their own homes have been destroyed. But the Palestinians sheltering Gaza’s displaced on their agricultural lands continue their support as people brace for aid trucks to roll in.
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October 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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Pennsylvania is trying to protect residents from data center energy spikes, New Yorkers are called to record ICE activity, and more.

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The Weekly Wrap: Detroit is Running Out of Rundown Homes To Rehab
Pennsylvania is trying to protect residents from data center energy spikes, New Yorkers are called to record ICE activity, and more.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Sponsored: The Small Business Anti-Displacement Network’s upcoming conference is a venue where nationwide practitioners can connect and share strategies to keep local businesses and their communities in place.

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The Conference Where Small Business Advocates Find Their People
Sponsored: The Small Business Anti-Displacement Network’s upcoming conference is a venue where nationwide practitioners can connect and share strategies to keep local businesses and their communities ...
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October 27, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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Planners have a duty to uphold values that make transportation systems work for everyone.

I wrote a piece for @nextcity.org about what transportation planners can do when there’s a direct attack on the priorities and values that matter the most to us.

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Holding the Line: Transportation Planning in the Trump Era
Op-ed: Under the Trump administration, safety, equity and sustainability have been sidelined. But planners still have tools — and a duty — to uphold the values that make transportation systems work fo...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Windsor land use commissioner @alancavagnaro.bsky.social reflects on our Room at the Table report in @nextcity.org , highlighting how the lack of renters, young residents, and women on local boards fuels exclusionary practices and limits community voice.
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Your Town’s Future Is Being Decided Without You. I Know, Because I’m in the Room.
Op-ed: From outsider to elected official, I’ve seen how power works, who gets excluded – and how to shake up the status quo.
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October 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The federal government is enabling U.S. cities to criminalize public homelessness. But Kentucky has already learned the hard way that decreasing visibility only exacerbates homelessness.

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Kentucky’s Anti-Camping Law Has Pushed Rural Homelessness into Hiding
The federal government is enabling U.S. cities to criminalize public homelessness. But Kentucky has already learned the hard way that decreasing visibility only exacerbates homelessness.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Op-ed: Under the Trump administration, safety, equity and sustainability have been sidelined. But planners still have tools — and a duty — to uphold the values that make transportation systems work for everyone.

nextcity.org/urbanist-new...
Holding the Line: Transportation Planning in the Trump Era
Op-ed: Under the Trump administration, safety, equity and sustainability have been sidelined. But planners still have tools — and a duty — to uphold the values that make transportation systems work fo...
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October 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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A GOP sign-on letter, Wall Street backing and growing bipartisan alarm reveal how essential community development financial institutions have become — even as the White House moves to gut key support for them.

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The CDFI Fund Won Allies in Red States and Major Banks. Now It’s Counting on Them to Survive.
A GOP sign-on letter, Wall Street backing and growing bipartisan alarm reveal how essential community development financial institutions have become — even as the White House moves to gut key support ...
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October 22, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Tomorrow, join us for a conversation with Michaela M. Leslie-Rule and Jennifer Breheny Wallace, authors of “How We See Us: Young People Imagining a Path to Their Futures” and “Never Enough.”

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Rethinking Youth, Pressure and Possibility
Join us for a conversation with Michaela M. Leslie-Rule and Jennifer Breheny Wallace, authors of “How We See Us: Young People Imagining a Path to Their Futures” and “Never Enough.”
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October 22, 2025 at 3:05 PM