Social Issues

The Avenue

Dismantling white privilege starts with undoing racist housing policies

Andre M. Perry and Stuart Yasgur

Thursday, January 14, 2021

The Avenue

Four reasons why more public housing isn’t the solution to affordability concerns

Jenny Schuetz

Thursday, January 14, 2021

The Avenue

What transformative placemaking taught us in 2020, and how it can help build a better future

Joanne Kim, Hanna Love, Jennifer S. Vey, and Tracy Hadden Loh

Wednesday, January 13, 2021

A supporter of President Donald Trump carries a Confederate battle flag on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol near the entrance to the Senate after breaching security defenses, in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. A portrait of abolitionist senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts, who was savagely beaten on the Senate floor after delivering a speech criticizing slavery in 1856, hangs above the couch. REUTERS/Mike Theiler TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

How We Rise

What the Capitol insurgency reveals about white supremacy and law enforcement

Rashawn Ray

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Reports

Essay

The Great Real Estate Reset: A data-driven initiative to remake how and what we build

Christopher Coes, Jennifer S. Vey, and Tracy Hadden Loh

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Essay

Separate and unequal: Persistent residential segregation is sustaining racial and economic injustice in the U.S

Tracy Hadden Loh, Christopher Coes, and Becca Buthe

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Essay

The office, reimagined: The nature of office work is shifting, and so must downtowns

Tracy Hadden Loh

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Essay

Modernizing family: America’s demographics are transforming, but our housing supply is not

Tracy Hadden Loh and Evan Farrar

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

U.S. Politics & Government

A Time for Renewal and Prosperity

John Allen

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Blog Posts

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How We Rise

The for-profit college system is broken and the Biden administration needs to fix it

Ariel Gelrud Shiro and Richard V. Reeves

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

Tear gas at the Capitol on January 6, 2021

Up Front

The ‘thugs’ that stormed the Capitol just joined a long list of others

Nicol Turner Lee

Friday, January 8, 2021

A voter casts her ballot in the run-off election featuring incumbent Republican U.S. Senators David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler and Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, at the polling site at the Dunbar Neighborhood Center in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S., January 5, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

The Avenue

Last night in Georgia, Black Americans saved democracy

Andre M. Perry, Carl Romer, David Harshbarger, and Anthony Fiano

Wednesday, January 6, 2021

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Social Issues

Dismantling white privilege starts with undoing racist housing policies

Four reasons why more public housing isn’t the solution to affordability concerns

What transformative placemaking taught us in 2020, and how it can help build a better future

What the Capitol insurgency reveals about white supremacy and law enforcement

Reports

The Great Real Estate Reset: A data-driven initiative to remake how and what we build

Separate and unequal: Persistent residential segregation is sustaining racial and economic injustice in the U.S

The office, reimagined: The nature of office work is shifting, and so must downtowns

Modernizing family: America’s demographics are transforming, but our housing supply is not

A Time for Renewal and Prosperity

Blog Posts

The for-profit college system is broken and the Biden administration needs to fix it

The ‘thugs’ that stormed the Capitol just joined a long list of others

Last night in Georgia, Black Americans saved democracy

Events

Beyond giving thanks: Pay, protections, and policies frontline essential workers still need

Recovery in America’s legacy cities

It’s time for an infrastructure ‘boost’: Confronting utility bill affordability during the COVID-19 recession

Related Books

Marijuana

Marijuana Federalism

U.S. Inspectors General

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Nicol Turner Lee

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Director - Center for Technology Innovation

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Race and social justice in the 2020 presidential election

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