Residents asked for a grocery store. A community-controlled real estate trust bought a building, partnered with a local business owner, and turned that request into a reality.

The city and other supporters say the Joe Louis Greenway will help stabilize the area, but some residents are concerned about an influx of big-box stores, niche luxury and pricing out long-term and low-income residents.

Metalworking skills, HVAC certification, nail tech training: Nonprofits in Chicago’s disinvested neighborhoods are offering the vocational training that public schools have largely abandoned.

As World Cup matches begin, advocates warn that Atlanta is on track to repeat the arrests, displacement, and criminalization of homeless residents that drew criticism during the city's 1996 Olympics.

Can Mayor Mamdani forge a new path forward for New York City and the nation?

A first-of-its-kind hostile architecture ban, model legislation to protect unsheltered people from arrest, and more: How advocates and policymakers are trying to undo the impact of the Supreme Court's most consequential homelessness ruling in decades.

After a lawsuit and a decade of stalled development, a historic Black neighborhood’s community benefits fund is finally paying out. Here’s how they got there.

Spanish housing justice organizers share what they’ve learned from more than 15 years’ worth of experience organizing a nationwide housing justice movement.

An architect and urban theorist argues that the techno-colonialism bred in Silicon Valley's tech campuses is now being applied to cities — and the data center boom is its latest frontier.

A community development organization is taking a place-based approach to build and determine eligibility for housing.

With a new proactive approach to title clearance and estate planning, Philadelphia is working with lawyers and neighborhood groups to help families secure inherited homes and preserve generational wealth.

In Lexington, 36 randomly-selected residents took part in one of the country’s first civic assemblies to recommend changes to the city’s governing charter.

More than just a place to open bank accounts for communities that are underbanked, this new branch invites a community to help finance its collective future.

In 2024, nearly 2,000 apartments opened in former schools. Some see the conversions as a cure for neighborhood blight. Others fear gentrification.

Heirs’ property issues can block disaster survivors from accessing FEMA assistance. In eastern Kentucky, free legal clinics are helping families clear titles and protect inherited land.

A coalition of immigrant rights organizations is showing up to keep their communities safe.

Expanding access to home finance did not eliminate the structural barriers Detroiters faced as they tried to repair their homes, Nicholas L. Caverly writes in his new book. Nor did demolitions.

After two decades of neighborhood walks with residents, Gabrielle Bendiner-Viani’s new book, “The Cities We Need,” shows the vital everyday labor between people and places that makes community possible.

The proliferation of bubble tea shops displacing Chinatown’s legacy businesses might not “look” like gentrification. That makes it even more insidious, some say.

A joyful, ebullient performance on ice provides a reason to look back at a landmark community investment program that no longer exists.