Neighborhoods

News related to zoning, cities, gentrification and urban development.

Why Reform Falls Short in Stopping Police Violence
A cop arrests a person on the street.

Why Reform Falls Short in Stopping Police Violence
Dominique Stewart
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Last year became the deadliest year for fatal police encounters, despite calls for reform and racial justice after the 2020 protests.

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Neighborhoods Social Justice
1920 1280 Dominique Stewart
The Young Women Fighting to Save Chinatowns
A street view of New York Chinatown. People walking on the sidewalk, busy street lined with cars, and snowflake center-streamers connect from parallel buildings.

The Young Women Fighting to Save Chinatowns
Eileen Huang
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As Chinatowns around the world reel from racial and economic injustice, young women are organizing to save these iconic neighborhoods.

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Neighborhoods
2400 1600 Eileen Huang
Year in Review: The Right to Housing
A key with silver house-shaped keychain next to a red and cream miniature model home on top of a wooden table.

Year in Review: The Right to Housing
Andrew Lee
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Though the home is the center of our lives, housing in the United States is not a right but a privilege for those able to afford it.

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Neighborhoods Year in Review
2400 1802 Andrew Lee
tiny from POOR Magazine on Radical Redistribution
A group of people pose for a picture in front of a mural. The mural says "Homefulness" and shows different scenes of people and folks protesting with signs that read "We are not trash stop sweeping us" and "landback so houseless indigenous people can build homes."

tiny from POOR Magazine on Radical Redistribution
Andrew Lee
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A poor and Indigenous people-led movement is changing how poor people are discussed and empowering their own solutions by centering themselves.

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Neighborhoods
1232 810 Andrew Lee
Moving Past Acknowledgment to Rematriation
View of the Grand Teton Mountain Range in Jackson, Wyoming, during sunset.

Moving Past Acknowledgment to Rematriation
Nicole Cardoza
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Initiatives like land rematriation aren’t just reparations but a clear way to dismantle white supremacy and center Indigenous communities.

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History Neighborhoods Politics
2400 1567 Nicole Cardoza
The Shameful History of Sundown Towns
A drone shot looking down main street of a small town in the midwest during sunset.

The Shameful History of Sundown Towns
Renée Cherez
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Beyond the legal segregation of the Jim Crow South, the U.S. is full of municipalities that were dangerous for Black travelers.

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History Neighborhoods
2400 1350 Renée Cherez
The MOVE Bombing and the Repatriation of Human Remains
A skeleton encased in a clear display with lights inside a dark room.

The MOVE Bombing and the Repatriation of Human Remains
Nicole Cardoza
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Like the MOVE bombing victims, museums hold the remains of marginalized communities, often without community support or consent.

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History Neighborhoods
2400 1605 Nicole Cardoza
The Criminalization of Sharing in Public
People in masks serve food outside on a corner at night. A sign behind them reads "Food not Bombs."

The Criminalization of Sharing in Public
Andrew Lee
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Thanks to anti-homeless legislation, U.S. cities are penalizing those who give food to unhoused people.

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Neighborhoods
1002 784 Andrew Lee
Fighting “Penn-ification” with the People’s Townhomes
Five people from the People's Townhomes stand in a row with their backs turned and right fists in the air. The back of their shirts read "stop displacing Black communities." Red posters on the concrete pillar in front of them say "eviction = murder," "housing is our human right," and "stop the sale" in white ink.

Fighting “Penn-ification” with the People’s Townhomes
Andrew Lee
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West Philly residents from the People’s Townhomes are fighting to maintain accessible housing for families and seniors. 

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Neighborhoods
1502 858 Andrew Lee
What MLK Boulevards Teach Us About Collective Forgetting
A green street sign of MLK boulevard on the corner of a street.

What MLK Boulevards Teach Us About Collective Forgetting
Andrew Lee
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The memorialization of social justices leaders and victims, as in the case of MLK boulevards, is meaningless without systemic change.

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Media & Culture Neighborhoods
1798 1126 Andrew Lee
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