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CityLab investigates the practices of company officials at Nextdoor to cultivate relationships with police and local officials.

May 28 - CityLab

The Center for Community progress offers advice on effective code enforcement during a time of extreme economic duress.

May 28 - Center for Community Progress

When corporations move out of the suburbs, they leaving behind largely unprofitable corporate campuses. Loss of property value and tax revenue follow in the communities they left.

May 28 - ProPublica

A new report from the U.S. Census Bureau offers a new approach to understanding the impact of disasters on local housing markets.

May 28 - U.S. Census Bureau

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The al fresco streets movement, moving dining and retail space into the public realm in space historically devoted to automobiles, continues to gain momentum around the country.

May 28 - James Brasuell

Under a plan scheduled for implementation later this year, a transit pass will mean access to the city's bikeshare system.

May 28 - Austin Monitor

Facing the potential for accessory dwelling units to win swift legalization in Chicago inspires one columnist to push back.

May 28 - Chicago Tribune

Renters in smaller multi-family buildings and single-family homes are faced with larger economic challenges during the pandemic, according to new analysis by researchers at the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University.

May 28 - Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University

After a series of failures last week sent flood waters spilling into Midland County, Michigan, property owners in the area are filing class action lawsuits to recoup their losses.

May 27 - Detroit Free Press

President Trump has weakened protections for 35 million acres of public land, despite repeating his intentions to surpass the model for conservation set by President Teddy Roosevelt.

May 27 - Center for American Progress

The terminology of the coronavirus pandemic isn't applied consistently, particularly when dealing with areas seeing a resurgence of infection after states have relaxed social distancing restrictions. The World Health Organization added some clarity.

May 27 - Reuters

As peak harvest season approaches, about a third of small farmers expect that their short-chain food business will not survive to continue production in 2021.

May 27 - The Counter

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The big question for planners since the outset of the pandemic has been how cities and communities will change, and what role planners will take in implementing those changes. Here are four potential ways for urban planning to respond to the crisis.

May 27 - Kayla Matthews

The renaissance predicted for urban areas in the United States started strong during the 2010s but slowed in the years leading up to a potentially generation defining pandemic.

May 27 - Brookings

The Emergency Relief for Affordable Multifamily Properties Program is designed to keep multi-family property owners from entering default.

May 27 - Next City

Sarah Feinberg took over as the interim president of New York City Transit on March 2, 2020. In May 2020, Feinberg rides the subway to a deserted office to begin the work of bringing public transit back from an unprecedented crisis.

May 27 - Intelligencer - New York Magazine

Large numbers of commercial renters in New York City are missing rent, according to reports.

May 26 - The New York Times

The novel coronavirus is outlasting the narratives of March 2020, and the country will have to reevaluate its assumptions to understand and respond to shifting threats as the public health crisis deepens.

May 26 - The Washington Post

A busy corridor, popular with bike and scooter riders, is gaining a new protected bike lane in Los Angeles.

May 26 - Urbanize Los Angeles

Age segregation has contributed to the tragic outbreaks of Covid-19 in nursing homes all over the country, but racial data adds another layer of tragic consequences of the pandemic.

May 26 - The New York Times