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2022 Menino Survey of Mayors finds city leaders’ top economic concern is a shortage of affordable housing; mayors also favor greater gun safety.

2022 Menino Survey of Mayors finds city leaders are eager to invest in electric vehicles and less likely to restrict fossil fuels use.

One radical idea to solve America’s housing crisis.

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.

April 7, 2021 Twitter Facebook Over the past year, as COVID-19 restrictions shuttered restaurants, museums, and sports events, Americans sought comfort, as well as escape from their living rooms, in public parks and open spaces. In Erie, Pa., the number of visitors to Presque Isle State Park soared 165 percent during the third week of March 2020, compared to the same week one year earlier. That same month, popular trails in Dallas saw usage increase from 30 to 75 percent, and trails in Mi...

✕ 60 percent of likely voters say they’re in favor of public housing. So why isn’t there more of it? Americans say they want the government to build affordable housing — but not in their backyards. Share this story Theresa, who has been homeless for much of her life, pauses for photos in the lobby area of an affordable housing complex in Los Angeles. “I understand that recovery centers and halfway housing costs money, but graveyards and hospital beds cost money too, which the taxpaye...