Across the country, planners and community activists are touting the new concept of “equitable development” as a just way to revitalize disinvested communities. Done well,…
A new interactive mapping tool showing the dramatic demographic, social, and economic changes that have occurred in Greater Boston since 1990 is being released this week by…
Fostering equitable development, maximizing the benefits of Opportunity Zones, and lessons from the nation’s largest community land trust are among the topics we will…
In anticipation of the holiday break, which for those of us in the Northeast is a time of short, cold days, we asked our staff to recommend some books, articles, programs, or…
In “Congested cities vs. sprawl makes you fat: unpacking the health effects of density,” an essay that recently appeared in Town Planning Review, Ann Forsyth, a professor of…
The Philadelphia Energy Campaign (PEC) is an unlikely success story of a municipal climate initiative prioritizing the needs of its marginalized residents by preserving…
Robust land bank and land trust partnerships, long-term lease-purchase programs, and low-interest renovation loans with affordability requirements are three tools that…
Faced with the increased threat of natural disasters, some community-based organizations are trying to link their efforts to better plan for catastrophic events with their…
Fair housing can and should be a centerpiece of efforts to expand economic opportunity, asserted Dr. Raphael Bostic, President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta…
How do the notoriously complicated funding and approval processes for affordable housing shape the design of those projects? In particular, are these elements so complex that…
