While gentrification has been occurring in Seattle for several decades, the racial and ethnic composition of its gentrifying areas has changed in significant ways, according…
When environmental disasters such as Hurricane Harvey or California’s multi-year drought occur, community-based organizations (CBOs) focused on affordable housing and…
With increasing concern about housing affordability, there has been growing interest in Community Land Trusts (CLTs), place-based non-profits that hold land in perpetuity on…
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…
Alexander Hermann, David Luberoff, Daniel McCue
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January 30, 2019
The cities, towns, and neighborhoods that together make up greater Boston have changed significantly in the last few decades. Between 1990 and 2016, the region has become…
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…
