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Inequality
Building community wealth from the bottom up is a more effective way to turn struggling communities around.
CityLab
Inequality is growing faster in large metropolitan areas, according to a New York Times data visualization.
The New York Times
For many residents, Santiago's subway system and its fare hikes became a nexus for anger over deeper inequities across Chilean society.
CityLab
Using a mid 20th-century painting as his point of reference, Benjamin Schneider points out that the vast, disruptive changes we often associate with San Francisco are only affecting the city's eastern side.
San Francisco Chronicle
The glitzy new neighborhood doesn’t cater to all Boston residents, according to a new survey.
The Boston Globe
The economy is improving in places like Texas, but a closer look indicates that cities are taking off while rural areas are lagging behind.
The New York Times
Population loss doesn't always equate to economic decline. Richard Florida discusses a study examining American metros that are retaining their economic vitality as they shrink.
CityLab
A longread, written by Sam Boch and published by Places Journal, has been creating a stir online and is highly recommended for those with an interest in intersections between social justice and urban design.
Places Journal
A new analysis of inequality looks at where people go and how they spend their time.
CityLab
It's not all free flowing commutes and world peace in an autonomous vehicle-filled future.
Futurism
Exclusionary zoning really pays off for people that already had enough money to buy a home. A new mapping project shows exactly where that's true int he area around Minneapolis.
Nick Magrino
A new journal article calls out the academic community of planning and urbanism for relying too much on the usual suspects when researching marginalization and inequality, and assuming too much about what makes a neighborhood "normal."
Rice Kinder Institute for Urban Research: The Urban Edge
The Guardian sounds the alarm about deadly heat exposure in poor communities around the world.
The Guardian
A new report by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities finds major flaws with property taxes in several states, and proposes a solution that could mitigate the least desirable consequences of limits to property tax increases.
Governing
Five decades after the Fair Housing Act, racial inequality is still rampant in American cities. Trulia and the National Fair Housing Alliance collaborated on this report on four of them.
Curbed Atlanta
"And you know why they made the new twenties? Cause I got all the old ones."
City Observatory
An opinion piece points out the inequities of growth in contemporary Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Homeowners in almost every corner of the United States are making more off the accruing value of their homes every hour than minimum wage workers. In some cases, homeowners are even making a lot more than decent middle class wages.
Zillow Research
A new report shows the need for Central Texas counties and cities to invest in their Latino populations.
KUT
Any way you slice it: the rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.
Urban Institute
