By: Richard Florida The Great Housing Reset has led to growing numbers of single-family homes shifting from owner-occupied housing to investment vehicles for large corporations. When most people think of housing, they separate it into two types: single-family suburban homes that people own, and apartments,… Read More »How Housing Wealth Transferred From Families to Corporations
Allana Akhtar Oct 7, 2019 Top Image by sujin soman from Pixabay Automation and AI will disrupt — meaning kill or replace with lower-paying work — 4.5 million jobs held by African Americans by 2030, the consultancy McKinsey estimates. African American workers are at a… Read More »Artificial intelligence is slated to disrupt 4.5 million jobs for African Americans, who have a 10% greater likelihood of automation-based job loss than other workers
Photo by Lerone Pieters on Unsplash In many large American cities that regulate the number of taxi cabs allowed to operate commercially on their streets, taxi cab permits take the form of a medallion bolted to the hood of the taxi. New York City instituted its taxi medallion… Read More »New York City Taxi Medallions
As the chain opens stores at the rate of three a day across the U.S., often in the heart of ‘food deserts’, some see Dollar General as an admission that a town is failing. The Guardian | Chris McGreal When Dollar General came to Haven,… Read More »How Dollar General Took Over Rural America
HOW TO USE MARKETS TO ENCOURAGE USE OF EXISTING LOCALES AND INFRASTRUCTURE On October 7th, 2019, Josie Faass (RSF ED), Josh Vincent (Center for the Study of Economics ED), and Marty Rowland participated in an expert panel presentation, moderated by Alan Feinberg, titled, “Negotiating Change:… Read More »LAND AS LEVERAGE
Housing insecurity in the nation’s richest cities is far worse than government statistics claim. Just ask the Goodmans. By Brian Goldstone August 21, 2019 Photographs by Sheila Pree Bright for The New Republic Last August, Cokethia Goodman returned home from work to discover a typed… Read More »The New American Homeless
Move fast and fix things: Promoting tax policies that make sense at the NCSL 2019 in Nashville. RSF Executive Director, Josie Faass, talks with a lobbyist at the booth. In partnership with the Center for the Study of Economics and the Public Revenue Education Council,… Read More »National Conference of State Legislatures 2019
By EMILY BADGER and QUOCTRUNG BUIJUNE 18, 2019 Townhomes, duplexes and apartments are effectively banned in many neighborhoods. Now some communities regret it. Single-family zoning is practically gospel in America, embraced by homeowners and local governments to protect neighborhoods of tidy houses from denser development nearby. Residential land… Read More »Cities Start to Question an American Ideal: A House With a Yard on Every Lot
About 2.8 planets would be needed if rest of the world followed suit, biocapacity data shows Arthur Neslen Thu 9 May 2019 09.20 EDT Last modified on Thu 9 May 2019 11.03 EDT Europe makes up 7% of the world’s population but exploits a fifth of its… Read More »EU ‘outright dangerous’ in its use of natural resources, says WWF
Photo by Matt Alaniz on Unsplash Shade is an environmental justice issue. The ability to step into a shadow—of a tree, building, or shelter—should be widely accessible. Shade is not just a vital refuge from the burning sun, it can also help cool surface and air… Read More »Shade
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