Creative Student Outreach Overcomes Empty Campuses Day after day, we’re seeing stories of college campuses trying, then failing, to start in-person classes, then readjusting their plans. Against this chaotic backdrop, Americans are preparing for one of the most consequential elections

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Prop K Diverts Funds from Nonprofit Developers, Community Land Trusts San Francisco’s Prop K authorizes the creation of 10,000 “social housing” units in the city. Its website states, “How can SF drastically bring down rents? Cities around the world –
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Cities Must Open All Neighborhoods to Low-Income People Last week, politically powerful and affluent Upper West Side “liberals” caused New York City to stop using a neighborhood hotel for the unhoused. Many of the over 300 men staying at the
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(Ed Note: This first appeared in Streetsblog USA) The federal government needs an entirely different way of funding transportation — one that would divert billions of dollars that currently subsidize and encourage driving to fund and expand transit, a new
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(This piece first appeared in Latino Decisions) This is my fourth monthly blog highlighting trends on COVID-19 cases and deaths among Latinos. Each month the story has gotten increasingly depressing.1 True to form, following a wide swath of the economy
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Displaced Tenants Could Lose Voting Rights Millions of American voters face losing their homes prior to the November election. And Trump  shenanigans around the U.S. Postal Service make re-registering to vote post-September a very uncertain path. Trump admitted that defunding
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(This piece first appeared in Streetsblog USA) “By eliminating car parking and narrowing automobile lanes we can create the space necessary to accommodate lightweight, human sized micromobility vehicles such as electric scooters.” Close your eyes and imagine a typical city
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Restaurants Need Bigger Help to Survive The Tenderloin’s Black Cat Supper Club opened four years ago last week. Mayor Lee joined the opening festivities and regularly checked with me on how the Black Cat was doing. Described as “the most
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