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December 9, 2025
Has Marriage Fallen Because Young Adults Can’t Afford Homes?
…Home Sale Prices Have Risen Relative to Incomes, But Not as Much as It Might Appear As evidence of an affordability crisis facing young adults, Patrick Brown of the Ethics…
September 25, 2025
The Golden Age of Public Housing—and Why It Didn’t Last
…for a legendary anti-lynching crusader, was later captured as a drug-infested, racially segregated dystopia by the filmmaker Frederick Wiseman. It did not start out that way, though. “Life in Ida…
September 8, 2025
A Hidden Explanation for the Wealth Gap on Racial Lines That Emerges in the Push to Promote Public Housing
…Detroit that would be named for Frederick Douglass. To clear the way for this and many similar projects named for important black historical figures such as Ida B. Wells, James…
June 25, 2025
Yes, there’s still a shared American story. If we’re to live in freedom, we need to embrace and defend it.
…perish from the Earth. These are the ideals Frederick Douglass fought for in every speech he gave. This is Lincoln at Gettysburg and Martin Luther King Jr. on the Mall….
June 24, 2025
Public Housing and Rental Subsidies
…Philadelphia during that period, some 299,000 brick row homes were built—many of them so solid that they are still in use.27 Data from that period show that a significant percentage of…
May 10, 2025
How Single Room Occupancies Could Be the Answer to NYC’s Housing Crisis
…“The Housing Maintenance Code does not allow housing with shared facilities as-of-right.” As attorney Patrick Sullivan, who follows housing law for the law firm Kramer, Levin, Natalie’s and Frankel, explains:…
May 1, 2025
Tariffs Plus AI Makes for a Rocky Job Market. How Should Workers Prepare?
…and strengthen their skill sets. Like swimmers caught in a sudden riptide, the trick is to not panic but to work with the current until you find a way out….
April 4, 2025
How One State Improved Its NAEP Scores
…to Cade Brumley, Louisiana’s state superintendent of education since 2020. Here’s what he had to say: — Rick Rick: Cade, while the nation’s NAEP results were lousy, Louisiana came out looking…
March 28, 2025
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
The imposing brick blocks covering much of the territory from West 16th to 27th Streets, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, superficially have much in common with…
December 17, 2024
Industrial Policy and Deficits: Dark Clouds for Democratic Capitalism
…in a political chess match between the two political parties. Instead, the lack of concern both parties have shown for fiscal consolidation is a sign that the political system is…