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Industrial district in Portland, Oregon; train moves through rows of buildings on either side

The Weekly Wrap: Oregon Governor Signs Laws to Boost Housing Production And Tenant Rights

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The City That Made Former Prisoners A Protected Class

Increasing Access to Capital For Minority-Owned Businesses In Atlanta

Atlanta Just Made Former Prisoners A Protected Class. Meet The Women Who Made It Happen.

How Can We Achieve Equitable Retail Growth? Look to Atlanta

Innovative Housing Can Address Affordability and Aging in Place

A New Tool is Raising Awareness for the Benefits Cliff

Atlanta Nonprofit Offers Path to Success for Women in Tech

Home-Based Daycares Could Be the Answer to Atlanta’s Childcare Woes

Incarcerated people work in a rock quarry, possibly Keith Quarry near Palmetto, Georgia, around 1948.

Atlanta Reckons with the Convict Labor that Built the City

Atlanta’s Night Mayor Will Govern More Than Parties

Atlanta Tried Housing Police in Disinvested Black Communities to Increase Trust. Is it Working?

The John Hope Homes were bulit in Atlanta in 1940 as the first federally subsidized housing project specifically for Black residnets in the U.S., and was torn down in the year 2000 and replaced with a mixed-income housing complex.

How Atlanta’s Public Housing Created Space for Black Women to Organize

The Atlanta BeltLine Wants to Prevent Displacement of Longtime Residents. Is it Too Late?

Questions Remain About New Affordable Homeownership Program Run by an Atlanta For-Profit

An Atlanta Neighborhood Will Finally Own Property as a Community

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