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Next City — 162 episodes
Summer Break
On Being Planners With Purpose
After 150 Episodes, Revisiting Our Favorite Solutions
For Immigrant Communities, These Organizations Build Belonging
How Boston’s Chinatown Turns Culture Into Power
How To Transform Closed Schools for Community
Real Solutions Are Everywhere
Lessons on Serving Immigrant Communities Under Attack
Community Power Is Finally Going Big in Economic Development
Tenants Rising: Organizing for Housing Justice, Part 2
Tenants Rising: Organizing for Housing Justice, Part 1
This City Spent $1 Million To Erase $90 Million in Residents’ Debt
Artists in Government: Creativity as Civic Infrastructure
Building Affordable Housing Without Federal Dollars
From Tangled Title to Shared Prosperity
A Food Security Solution for Urban and Rural Neighbors
Solutions for Rebuilding After Climate Disaster
Telling the Story of Housing Affordability
How We Build Community Ownership and Self-Determination
Takeaways From A Tumultuous Year in Economic Justice
The Role of Philanthropy in This Moment
Building The Community Power Ecosystem
When Community Benefits Agreements Work (And When They Don’t)
Learning Community Power By Example: The Chinatown Arena Fight
What Collective Ownership Looks Like in Philly
Revisiting: Emergent City - A Decade-Long Fight Against Displacement
Philadelphia’s Pyramid Club Reborn Through Art and Afrofuturism
Designing for Childhood: How Cities Are Ending Playspace Inequity
City-Building with Culture at the Core
How Your Nonprofit Can Use Research to Strengthen Impact
A Federal Freeze Won’t Stop Green Progress
Alternative Models For Funding and Supporting Cultural Spaces and Workers
The Fight for Freedom of Mobility in Black America
Heroic Oysters Are ‘Holding Back the Tide’
Razing Liberty Square: On Writing the Playbook to Fight Gentrification
'The Black Power Scorecard:' On Expanding Power and Lives
Revisiting Lexington - "This ‘Big Town’ Has Solutions for Cities Everywhere"
Creating Common Ground: The Value of Public Parks
How Community Development Is Responding To This Crossroads
Not My Narrative – “The Bootstraps Narrative” (Pilot Episode)
Unlocking Housing Access: Why Tenant Screening Protections Matter
The Evolution of the Queer Women’s Gathering Space?
The Problem With Streets and Climate Disasters
One Way to Ensure ‘Altadena Is Not For Sale’
This “Unapologetically Black” Monument Is Already Changing Los Angeles
The Quiet Engine for Affordable Housing in Red and Blue States
What Happens When Wildfire Relief Inspires Too Many Donations
The First Draft of Pandemic History
In Conversation with the Former NEA Chair on What’s Next for the Arts
A Proven Solution For Preventing Homelessness
So Many Land Trusts Launched in NYC That They Created A Map
How We Get The Banks We Deserve
Fixing the Housing Crisis Goes Beyond Building More Units
Inside the Fight to Save LGBTQ Landmarks and Culture
The Intersection of Philanthropy, Storytelling, and Racial Justice
Emergent City: A Decade-Long Fight Against Displacement
One Way Cities Are Welcoming Immigrants
Crushing Medical Debt: The Movement to Revolutionize Healthcare Access
Reckoning with the History of Community Development
Repairing Democracy Beyond the Ballot Box
What The Election Means for Cities
On Making Appalachia Safer from Climate Change
What Lexington Taught Us About Urban-Rural Interconnection
Revisiting Lexington - "This ‘Big Town’ Has Solutions for Cities Everywhere"
Why Urban Farms Should Be Taken Seriously
Where Artists Are Taking Over Vacant Storefronts
The Truth About Whether Speed Cameras Make Us Safer
These Loans Help Poor Families Rebuild After Climate Disasters
The New Rules Are Here: Unpacking the CRA
Farming While Black
Even Your Property Taxes Were Redlined
A Boston Neighborhood’s Cautionary Tale About Climate Change
A Climate Documentary on Solutions
Revisiting "What If You Give $5,800 To Someone Who Is Homeless?"
This ‘Big Town’ Has Solutions for Cities Everywhere
The Future of Human Transit
What If Your City Gave You Money for Transit?
Why We Need More Real Estate Developers of Color
The Future of Chinatown
A City Where Mental Health Isn’t for Policing
Revisiting: The Black Barber Who Launched A Credit Union
Cars Are the Problem. She Wrote A Manifesto On It
What We Can Learn From ‘Ghost Rivers’
One Tiny Credit Union Is Powering Brooklyn’s Economy
Countering Extreme Heat Requires All of Us
The Secret to Long-Term Recovery in Puerto Rico?
Can We Make Homebuying Permanently Affordable?
Building a Future of Food Security with Community Fridges
SOTY Revisit: One City Made Former Prisoners A Protected Class
SOTY Revisit: Boston Is Helping To Buy Up Buildings And Keep Rents Affordable
SOTY Revisit: Why So Many People Attend City Meetings in Lexington
SOTY Revisit: The Black Barber Who Launched A Credit Union from His Shop
Latino Loan Funds Supporting Latino Business Owners
If The NFL Can Do It, So Can You
Can Development Be Anti-Racist? This Report Shows Us How
The ‘Death Star’ Law Is Real and Coming to a State Near You
The New Crowdfunding: Where the Neighborhood Owns Local Businesses
The Real Consequences of Not Funding POC Arts
Creating a Sanctuary Where Artists Can Sustain Their Work
We Can Just Decide Not To Evict People With Convictions From Public Housing
How We Stop Discriminating Against Housing Vouchers
Where Housing Comes First When Solving Homelessness
Boston Is Helping To Buy Up Buildings And Keep Rents Affordable
Why So Many People Attend City Meetings in Lexington
The Importance of Black-Owned Banks
Can You Build an LGBTQ Neighborhood? Cleveland Is Trying
Don’t Demolish! Deconstruct Instead
How Hurricane Harvey Led to One Of The Nation’s Largest Land Trusts
No Lost Food: Organization Fights Waste and Hunger
Where the Community Owns The Real Estate
The Black Barber Who Launched A Credit Union
Even More Solutions for Backyard Homes
A Village Run By People Experiencing Homelessness
These Zero-Interest Loans Help Black Americans Buy Houses
One City Made Former Prisoners A Protected Class
Where Indigenous Land Return Is Already Possible
The Results So Far: Is Guaranteed Income Cutting Poverty?
They Built 335 Miles of Bike Lanes in 24 Months
What Happens When the Bus Is Free To Ride
Where the Employees Bought The Landscaping Business
Uber-For-Buses Comes Right to Your Door
These Tenants Took on Their Corporate Landlords
Let’s Talk More About EBikes, Less About Electric Cars
Tulsa Offered to Pay People to Move; 50,000 Applied
Understanding Patagonia and Perpetual Purpose Trusts
That Art On Your Street Makes Them Safer
One City Is Already Making Reparations Payments
These LGBTQ Seniors Built Their Own Place to Retire
How Many Cities Are in the World? A New Way to Count
Using Queer Power to Stem Gentrification
Ending the Colonial Mindset in International Philanthropy
These Maps Once Showed Where Being Gay Was Safe
A Proven Way to Reduce Violence in Cities
Can This Beer Stop Lesbian Bars From Going Extinct?
The Case for Guaranteed Income for Transgender Americans
Where Overdue Library Books Became A Thing of the Past
Taking the Corporate Profits Out of Your News
The First City To Launch Its Own Bank
Chinatown Nights Is Cultural Power And Preservation
Too Hot? Your City Needs a New Coat of Paint
How Cap-And-Trade Keeps People In Their Homes
What If We Put Another House in Your Backyard?
The Only County Where Child Removal Is Race-Blind
Can Landlords Compromise? This Anti-Eviction Program Says Yes
The Business That’s Owned By An Idea
What If You Give $5,800 To Someone Who Is Homeless?
We Could Stop Policing Homelessness and Start Helping
Is Giving Away Cash the Best Way to Cut Poverty?
Can Higher Education Bring Your City to the Next Level?
What Kind of City Evolves from a Crossroads?
What To Do When Racism Is Profitable
Welcome to Princeville, A Town Founded By Black Americans
Actually Foundations Keep 95% of Their Cash
This Technology Has Cleared 140,000 Marijuana-Related Convictions So Far
This Is Our Land, Not A Money-Making Scheme
The Real Reason Dollars Stores Are Everywhere
An ‘Unapologetically Black’ Monument Rises in Los Angeles
This Ride-Hailing App Alternative Is Owned By the Drivers
These Formerly Incarcerated Women Launched A Worker-Owned Business
The Black-Owned Startup Turning Buildings Into Teslas
These Cities Have Ended Chronic Homelessness
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