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How Housing Deepened the Economic Divide

Take a look at the map in this article. Notice where a year-long analysis of 31 million lending applications found a pattern of discrimination against Blacks and Latinos. Does this map match your intuition about racial discrimination in America? The people who stand behind the study say that it used academically …

Affordable housing crisis: No end in sight

Let’s talk about affordable housing–and the lack of it. Minimum wage workers cannot rent a two-bedroom apartment, using one-third of their income, …

What is the value of good neighbors?

Drew Philp thought of himself as an urban pioneer, entering no-man’s-land and bringing civilization. He learned that he “had inadvertently stepped into …