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The Bottom Line will be bringing new questions to the same storylines – like, whatever happened to starting up a new bank to serve a redlined community?

Investors who took a chance on a unique Bay Area-real estate cooperative are now receiving their first dividend checks. They may be small, but they carry an important message.

Lesbian bars are dwindling across the country. “Our community made us believe in things again,” says the owner of one of America’s the last lesbian bars.

A study of planning applications in Louisville offers a window into the racial dynamics around rezonings made by city planning bodies.

From Chicago to Toledo, more and more local governments are getting in on this simple economic recovery strategy: buying up and canceling medical bills en masse

Patagonia’s owner “gave the company away” for a cause. Here’s how a cause acquired a local seafood restaurant in Newport, Oregon.

In a neighborhood otherwise reeling from violence and an opioid epidemic, the Kensington Corridor Trust recently welcomed its first commercial tenant. It's not the only community-owned commercial real estate project seeing success.

Fewer households are turning to predatory financial services, and more are gaining access to banking. But this progress could already be at risk.

After well over a decade of strategic activism in Los Angeles, Breed Street’s “last vendor” is celebrating a new statewide measure that gives street food vendors new rights and opportunities.

Investment in infrastructure is happening at a scale not seen since the 1960s—how can we better prioritize environmental and social community needs?