“Apply the right laws, and apply the right rules,” Rodriguez told me. He believed the agency was singling him out unfairly. “Treat me the same—that’s all I want.” His problem might be that it already is.

The next year, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated and riots tore through Chicago. “That’s when most of the businesses started moving out,” White said. “Car dealerships, supermarkets. When the business goes out of the neighborhood, that’s the neighborhood.”

With the youngest boomers in their late-50s, it also means that the life cycle for these new products and services could run for the next 30 years.

The Utah Legislature is considering a bill this session that would put tens of millions toward building and preserving affordable housing, as well as offering rental assistance to low-income families at risk of eviction.

Grijalva was not the first to raise concerns about the border wall’s impact on the area. A 123-page internal report from the park service obtained by The Washington Post via a Freedom of Information Act request warned that the border wall’s construction could damage 22 archaeological sites at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.

Native American tribes in North Dakota secured a major victory this week when they settled a pair of lawsuits challenging the state’s restrictive voter identification requirements.

Solutions exist. But they start with recognizing the transit costs of displacement and starting a conversation about how to address them.

We don’t need a candidate whose first instinct is to excuse the toxic practices of bankers — and blame their victims

Does the world belong to them or to us?

I often get asked: What part of “illegal” don’t you understand? Well, our laws say we have to help people who are running for their lives. Take it from a Nazario: President Trump is the one who has broken the law.

In comparing this year with previous years, Gleason said, one way to look at it is “we completed the first lap in a 12-lap race, and we are in the lead.”

Boyle Heights has indeed been experiencing rapid gentrification, which some attribute to the influx of upwardly mobile Latinx artists and professionals, including some who grew up there.