Equitable Cities News Today

This housing cooperative could beat the odds by taking advantage of D.C.’s pioneering Tenant Opportunity to Purchase Act.

Also: The IRS got a funding boost in 2022. It’s working.

Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities seeks Post-Doctoral Associate in Just and Equitable Cities. Learn more about this position and other opportunities on the Planetizen Jobs Board.

Washington, D.C. is one of a few U.S. cities with a TOPA law, giving tenant associations the first chance to buy their building if it goes up for sale. The law could be transformative – but a lack of investment has stunted its potential.

Lack of human connection is bad for your health. Responding to an advisory from the U.S. Surgeon General that a loneliness epidemic is affecting half of all Americans, San Antonio has been pushing out resources to help build bonds between community members.

Next City and Virginia Public Media introduce Barry Greene, Jr., our joint Richmond-based urban reporting fellow.

Chicago’s Public Housing Authority has an unusually high vacancy rate. Until they were evicted, it also had a group of unhoused people occupying one of those vacant buildings to bring attention to the ongoing vacancy problem – and to stay warm.

A railroad line that bisects Cleveland tells the tale of “two cities." One is prosperous and bustling with development, while the other is blighted, with shuttered businesses, crumbling sidewalks and

Healthy Savannah and the YMCA of Coastal Georgia have been awarded $1,021,899 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for the first year...

The City of Harrisonburg just got a boost to reconnect the Northeast Neighborhood to the downtown area.