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WBUR, January 8, 2024, A Bronx Teenager Reflects On What Gentrification Means To Her and Her Community When neighborhoods become gentrified, there’s often a sense of loss for longtime residents of the communities. That’s the case for Radio Rookie Christina Adja and her friends. The teens discuss their fear of being displaced and what gentrification means to […]

Vox, January 9, 2024, Are $18 Big Macs The Price Of Falling Inequality? For months now, political observers have been squabbling over whether the Biden economy’s unpopularity reflects its genuine weaknesses or voters’ collective failure to recognize its virtues. On the one hand, the president did preside over a sustained period of exceptionally high inflation. On

DCist, January 8, 2024, On The Record: Addressing Homelessness In D.C. In 2024 Street Sense Media reached out to a few dozen local and national organizations that shape housing and homelessness policy to hear their hopes and predictions for this year. Here are some of the responses.

Planetizen, January 7, 2024, The Symbiotic Relationship Of Housing and Transit A proposed federal law would promote transit-oriented development and prioritize funding for jurisdictions that adopt ‘pro-housing policies’ such as eliminating parking minimums and clearing the way for multifamily construction by reducing minimum lot sizes and raising height limits. As M. Nolan Gray explains in Bloomberg

Business Insider, January 7, 2024, Student-Loan Borrowers Are Taking On More Debt, And It’s Not All Tuition — Blame Skyrocketing Housing Costs But skyrocketing home costs are increasingly putting pressure on student budgets across the country. The housing crisis has become a “five-alarm fire” for students struggling to make ends meet in hot real estate

The Washington Post, January 4, 2024, ‘Equality’ Says The Path Has Always Been Fraught In 2013, Barack Obama was flush with optimism as he stepped up to the podium to deliver his second inaugural address. He knew that America had a long way to go, but he believed that the country also had much to

The Medical Care Blog, January 4, 2024, Weathering And Its Impacts on Health Public health researcher Dr. Arline Gernoimus coined a term for this process that she calls “weathering”. Racism, poverty, and discrimination “literally wears down your heart, your arteries, your neuroendocrine systems, all your body systems so that in effect, you become chronologically old

Consumer Federation of America, January 3, 2024, The CFPB Has An Opportunity to Greatly Advance The Ethical And Non-Discriminatory Use Of AI In Financial Services And Should Take It On October 30, 2023, the White House issued Executive Order 14110 entitled the Safe, Secure and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence.  The Executive Order (EO) is

The Hill, January 3, 2024, It’s Time For Congress To Address The Affordable Housing Crisis From coast to coast, the foundation of a thriving community is affordable housing. Making sure hardworking families have a safe and reliable place to live is essential to economic growth and to quality of life. Unfortunately, a chronic lack of

Reuters: January 4, 2024, From Guns To Housing, The Impact From Spending Cuts On Black Americans Is Far And Wide US House of Representatives Republicans are working to rein in government spending in ways that would affect many federal social programs and could have a disproportionate impact on Black Americans. Here is a rundown on some

The New York Times, January 3, 2024, When Will New York Solve Its Housing Crisis? Probably Not This Year Now, state leaders will get another try. The 2024 legislative session, which began on Wednesday, will again test New York State’s willingness to tackle one of its most debilitating problems. The context this year is in

Bloomberg, December 20, 2023, Big Banks Are Copying From Private Credit’s Playbook On the surface, it was your run-of-the-mill private credit deal. A bunch of heavy hitters in the industry — Oak Hill Advisors, Antares Capital and Golub Capital — were providing half-a-billion dollars to fund the buyout of an engineering firm. But at the end of

The American Prospect, January 3, 2024, Untangling The Government Funding Mess. A Congress that has operated on short deadlines and chaos since its inception last January heads into 2024 with more short deadlines and chaos. In fact, our heroes missed a crucial deadline with the passage of the new year. The debt limit deal had a condition

DCist, December 28, 2023, Forecast For Northern Virginia Housing Market In 2024 Predicts Fewer Sales, Rising Prices The already-tight housing market isn’t expected to get much better in DC’s Virginia suburbs in the new year, even though high interest rates are expected to ease, according to a forecast from the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors and George

Planetizen, January 2, 2024, Approaching Affordable Housing From All Angles Writing in Architectural Digest, Abigail Glasgow assesses the state of affordable housing in the United States. For Glasgow, “Like any systemic issue, the first step to deconstructing the housing crisis requires getting the terminology right.” The article includes examples from places as diverse as Rhode Island and