On Our Radar

Instead of lacking streets, power, and water, as the residents of the former colonias often did, now the residents of Benavides and other former shantytowns are being left out of the middle class because they lack high-speed internet access – which Barton calls “a platform for access to the economy.”

What if we could collectively create our cities and share resources as easily as we can edit Wikipedia pages? This is what architect and WikiHouse co-founder Alastair Parvin and his colleagues have set out to facilitate.

Washington, D.C., planning officials released results from a citywide summer survey on Sept. 21, and Greater Greater Washington reports that there was a resounding demand for more affordable housing to be added in wealthy neighborhoods.

“We’re losing so much of our history,” said Parisa Norouzi, executive director of Empower DC, a grass-roots organization lobbying to landmark Barry Farm. “Our humble history is as important as our grand history.”

Once derided as “bunks for drunks,” 1811 Eastlake pioneered a harm-reduction model that other cities now emulate.

Perry and Rockey are also in agreement that the way CRA compliance is currently measured does not fully recognize the rapidly changing nature of the banking industry.

“Even our language has to adapt: What once was called ‘climate change’ is now truly a ‘climate crisis.’ … We are seeing unprecedented temperatures, unrelenting storms and undeniable science.”

Waves of redevelopment and gentrification have been pushing North Nashville housing options out of reach for many longtime residents, so we are proud to add an anchor of affordability in the neighborhood.

Ocasio-Cortez’s housing bill, titled the “A Place to Prosper Act,” would seek to use new regulations, publicizing the performance of large landlords, and targeted investments in tenants’ rights to improve the affordability and accessibility of our housing system, and create a more equitable and stable rental housing market.

A Stanford study finds that racial segregation matters because black and Hispanic students are concentrated in high poverty schools.

The California Reinvestment Coalition is holding Steven Mnuchin’s former bank accountable for the redlining that took place under his watch.

“Garbage in, garbage out,” software engineers say. Likewise, racism in, racism out. Biased developers produce biased code. But from my father, I learned there are ways to fight back. Facing racism encountered daily within IBM, my father relied on his community for support.

Yet now comes another wrinkle to the story. Not only are red and blue America experiencing two different economies, but those economies are diverging fast. In fact, radical change is transforming the two parties’ economies in real time. Which is a key takeaway of a new data analysis—published today—that we developed with the Wall Street Journal’s Aaron Zitner and Dante Chinni.

This week, California’s governor, Gavin Newsom – a darling of tech capitalists – signed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) into law. The bill codifies the “ABC test” to determine the applicability of California employment laws and makes it harder for companies to get away with misclassifying workers as independent contractors. If properly enforced, AB5 will have enormous impacts for vulnerable workers in the trucking, janitorial and construction industries.

Let’s imagine for a moment that we’ve reached the middle of the century. It’s 2050, and we have a moment to reflect—the climate fight remains the consuming battle of our age, but its most intense phase may be in our rearview mirror. And so we can look back to see how we might have managed to dramatically change our society and economy. We had no other choice.