On Monday, Aug. 1, NESRI and dozens of other organizations, working beneath the Movement for Black Lives (MFBL), debuted a six-piece platform that outlines what the United States should do to address the well-documented disparities faced by black communities in health, employment, education, criminal justice and housing. Read more >
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Greater Ohio: New GOPC Report Finds Challenges Have Grown For Ohio’s Smaller Legacy Cities
Posted on September 6, 2016 in Equitable Cities, From the Field 0
A new report from the Greater Ohio Policy Center (GOPC) highlights the critical conditions of Ohio’s small and mid-sized older industrial cities* and their regions in the wake of the Great Recession and decades of population and manufacturing job loss. Read More >
Cities Speak: Three Ways Your City Can Prosper by Embracing Equity
Posted on August 25, 2016 in Equitable Cities, From the Field 0
This is a guest post by Sarah Treuhaft. This post is the third installment in a series focused on NLC’s 2015 Cities and Unequal Recovery report, which highlights the findings of our 2015 Local Economic Conditions survey. Read More >
Ford Foundation: #InequalityIs
Posted on August 5, 2016 in Equitable Cities, From the Field 0
A conversation about inequality in all its forms. Tell us what inequality means to you, using #InequalityIs. Read More >
Iowa Public Radio: Teaching About Civil Rights: We Need to Talk About the Movement Like Its Still Happening
Posted on July 25, 2016 in Equitable Cities, From the Field 0
Civil rights education tends to focus on the past, but if recent events have taught us anything, it’s that the work of the civil rights movement isn’t finished. Read More >
Funders’ Network: Advancing Opportunity for all in Transportation, Greenhouse Gas Reduction, and Smart Growth
Posted on July 6, 2016 in Equitable Cities, From the Field 0
These best practice recommendations can be used by funders to prioritize opportunity-supportive transportation and smart growth strategies while meeting universal goals of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by transportation and land use. Read More >
Brookings: Diversity defines the millennial generation
Posted on June 28, 2016 in Equitable Cities, From the Field 0
Racial diversity will be the most defining and impactful characteristic of the millennial generation. Newly released 2015 Census data points to millennials’ role in transitioning America to the “majority minority” nation it is becoming. Read More >
Metropolitan Planning Council: The South Side with Natalie Moore
Posted on June 23, 2016 in Equitable Cities, From the Field 0
When WBEZ South Side Bureau Reporter Natalie Moore speaks of her childhood in the Chatham neighborhood of Chicago, she fondly describes tree-lined streets with pretty homes. She tells stories of black business owners who operated dental practices, grocery stores and dry cleaners. She also speaks of the “black tax.” Read More >
Metro Planning: Mapping Chicago’s Middle Class: What surrounds the metro’s middle class?
Posted on June 16, 2016 in Equitable Cities, From the Field 0
In this series, the Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) will explore where Chicago’s middle class lives, along with mapping the middle class experience by race and how it’s changed over time for both the city and the region. Read More >
United States Department of Housing and Urban Development: Federal agencies to promote opportunity and diversity: education, transportation and housing leaders work together to guarantee full opportunity
Posted on June 3, 2016 in Equitable Cities, From the Field 0
Dear Colleagues: As the Secretaries of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Department of Education, and the U.S. Department of Transportation, we recognize that a growing body of research supports the benefits of socioeconomic and racial diversity in schools and communities, and that such diversity can help establish access points […]