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Arts & CultureFilm
Kaya Oakes
Joe Talbot’s film raises the question: what does it mean to belong to a place?
Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson inspects the federal department’s Fair Housing Door Exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. (U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, via Wikimedia Commons)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Robert David Sullivan
The homeownership gap between white and black families is as wide as it was in the 1960s, and the remaining barriers to integration include restrictive zoning and newly tightfisted banks.
Paris has achieved density near public transit without a lot of skyscrapers. (Photo by halbergman on iStock)
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
City planners are increasingly alarmed by two trends: a growing shortage of affordable housing and a nationwide decline in public transit ridership.
Politics & SocietyEditorials
The Editors
Escalating rents and home prices have created invisible walls around communities all over the United States.
Politics & SocietyIn All Things
Maurice Timothy Reidy
David Simon and his team revel in the weeds of late 1980s housing policy.
BEFORE THE STORM. Oscar Isaac, left, as aspiring Mayor Nick Wasicsko in 'Show Me a Hero'
Politics & SocietyIn All Things
Maurice Timothy Reidy
At the heart of the class combat in "Show Me a Hero" is fear, a fear that is made worse by the fact the black, brown and white residents of Yonkers know very little about one another.