Advanced Age Can Increase Risk of Housing Insecurity and Homelessness Monday, May 6, 2024 With a growing number of older adults experiencing homelessness across the US, we interviewed housing, aging, and homelessness service providers in Boston to examine factors unique to older adults. In... By SAMARA SCHECKLER
Neighborhood Change Race, Immigration, and Gentrification in Seattle, 1970-2013 Tuesday, November 19, 2019 While gentrification has been occurring in Seattle for several decades, the racial and ethnic... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Neighborhood Change Building Inclusive Social Housing: Lessons from Bogota Tuesday, October 1, 2019 Around the world, mayors and other urban officials confront significant obstacles when they try to... By MARIA ATUESTA, DIANE DAVIS
Neighborhood Change Eliminating Exclusionary Land Use Regulations Should Be the Civil Rights Issue of Our Time Monday, August 19, 2019 Like cicada swarms, presidential commissions and federal initiatives to eliminate local barriers to... By MICHAEL STEGMAN
Neighborhood Change What Happens When Community-Based Organizations Do Disaster-Related Work? Wednesday, May 15, 2019 When environmental disasters such as Hurricane Harvey or California’s multi-year drought occur... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Neighborhood Change The Economic Effects of Climate Change Adaptation Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Despite increases in extreme meteorological events such as coastal floods and storm surges... By SEUNG KYUM KIM
Neighborhood Change Achieving the Promise of Equitable Development Wednesday, April 17, 2019 Across the country, planners and community activists are touting the new concept of “equitable... By DAVID LUBEROFF
Neighborhood Change How the Community Reinvestment Act Helps Facilitate Small Business Lending Monday, March 4, 2019 The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) has helped spur small business lending in underserved... By HYOJUNG LEE
Neighborhood Change Are the Suburbs Losing Status? Monday, February 4, 2019 The traditional image of suburbs in the United States is one of middle-class, white, family... By WHITNEY AIRGOOD-OBRYCKI
Affordability New Interactive Tool Shows Two Decades of Social & Economic Change in Greater Boston Wednesday, January 30, 2019 A new interactive mapping tool showing the dramatic demographic, social, and economic changes that... By DAVID LUBEROFF