On Our Radar

Today, we embark on a yearlong project exploring what has become another “inconvenient truth” – the pain that economic inequality has brought to America.

Apple CEO Tim Cook, unveiling a $2.5 billion plan to help alleviate California’s housing availability and affordability crisis, told Axios in an interview that Apple feels “a profound responsibility” to the region where it was born and thrived.

The number of housing discrimination complaints in 2018 is up by 8% to 31,202, the highest since NFHA began producing the annual Fair Housing Trends Report in 1995.

Not all parents can—or want to—invest time and resources into ever-more-elaborate observances of this holiday. Should it matter?

Research shows that overly restrictive zoning makes it hard for developers to build new housing, driving up rents and prices.

In the letter, Sarro praised the city for the resolution but said little has been done since to address the conditions in some of the housing units, including mold, pest infestation and lack of air conditioning, among other issues.

But Google and Apple — the valley’s two biggest tech property owners — differ wildly in a critical aspect: the way they use their resources in response to the region’s chronic housing crisis.

Striking Chicago teachers who are seeking smaller class sizes and higher pay also are demanding that the nation’s third-largest city do more to lower housing costs and put more resources into helping homeless students.

A widely used algorithm that predicts which patients will benefit from extra medical care dramatically underestimates the health needs of the sickest Black patients, amplifying long-standing racial disparities in medicine, researchers have found.

Many of the 1.5 million folks who tuned in Sunday night to watch the premiere of HBO’s transformational comic-book adaptation The Watchmen clearly had a hard time unseeing the horrific first eight minutes of the series, as the words “TULSA 1921” flashed on the screen.

Amado, who is in his 50s, has lived in the United States for nearly 29 years, coming by way of a smuggler through California, on a bus, first to Brooklyn with a brother, then to Queens. He is now in the country legally and able to travel back and forth to Mexico.

He was a leader among leaders. But more than a leader–Elijah Cummings was a friend.

In general, Americans — especially millennials — will need to work longer and claim Social Security later. “Benefits from Social Security are 76% higher if you claim at age 70 versus 62, which can substitute for a lot of extra savings,”

Gentrification is the territorial expansion of a wealthy community into a disinvested neighborhood, the installation of the social and legal regimes of the newcomers, and the deployment of new physical capital, both on a small scale—by homeowners undertaking renovations—and on a larger scale, by landed capitalists and public-sector officials keen to raise revenue.

Oregon is emerging as a testing ground for a new approach to solving the nationwide shortage of affordable housing.