On Our Radar

Public bank advocates argued that the status quo — private banks’ storing and managing of public funds — results in taxpayer money being directed to harmful purposes such as fracking, gun manufacturing and sales, and, particularly in NYC, developers who take out bank loans to acquire rent-stabilized buildings and flip them into market-rate apartments or condos.

Let’s bring the Community Reinvestment Act into the 21st century.

Jackson calls on CEO Jeff Bezos to create a board of directors and a workforce that looks more like America.

Congress should recognize that the impact of consumer tracking varies greatly by race, class and power.

Squatters turned an abandoned schoolhouse into a thriving arts center. Then it was sold to a developer, who evicted the tenants. Nearly two decades later, the building remains vacant.

Why transit-oriented development projects need to include affordable housing amid all those luxury condos and cafés.

Toni Griffin, one of the leading black women in architecture and design, is leading her students at Harvard in envisioning and designing the “just city.” And it looks different in Boston than it does in Rotterdam.

That’s the claim made by the authors of The Inner Level, which furthers arguments first laid out in their 2009 work, The Spirit Level. They reveal the bleak truth about uneven societies

Without watchdogs, government costs go up, according to new research.

Before the 9-year-old Linda Brown became the lead plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, a generation of black girls and teens led the charge against the “separate but equal” doctrine in public schools.

Bell knows to anticipate soft bigotries even in elements like design. “The problem here was the layout,” she says. “It was a side-piece… The layout doesn’t speak to the severity of these issues.”

Regulators have viewed the Volcker rule as too complicated to enforce. Both the current Fed chairman, Jerome H. Powell, and his predecessor, Janet L. Yellen, have called for simplification of the rule.

Scorching report on poverty finds ‘systematic attack on welfare program’ will leave millions deprived of food and healthcare.

Now, when white people assert private authority over public space, there’s a cost.

A new mapping project shows how segregation is a matter of whether you have close access to a grocery store, hospital, bank, or park—amenities that influence your quality of life.