For outreach workers, building relationships and cultivating patience is the key to transitioning people successfully into permanent housing.

Making music, rehearsal and performance as ways to rewrite the narrative around homelessness and addiction.

As cities form commissions to confront centuries of systemic racism, look to Maine for an example of a reckoning that can bring meaningful change.

What does it mean to be Black in a pandemic?

Three once imperiled species are finding homes amid the city’s rooftops, garden plots and waters, a promising sign of environmental viability.

For Dr. Mindy Fullilove, affirming the commitment to your community is an antidote to displacement and “root shock.”

A look at full-spectrum housing, designed to meet the needs of the non-neurotypical.

How the pandemic catalyzed food sovereignty groups to center marginalized populations and lift up neighborhood farming.

The connection between food justice and eviction defense in Oakland.

They turn out at the polls, and turn into lifelong voters. City by city, young activists are working the grassroots to make their voices count.

As the ongoing pandemic brings into sharp focus the ways kids are learning (or not), Next City looks at self-directed education, which respects each student’s passions, encourages self-sufficiency and turns the city into a classroom.

Within an oppressive and unjust prison-industrial complex, fighting for a space where families can forge bonds.

​Author and scholar Andre Perry digs into how one shuttered elementary school in a majority-Black neighborhood has maintained its community connections.

How the marketing of blackness as a prized aesthetic often leaves the city's Black residents behind.

At a time when businesses pivot from making booze to hand sanitizer, and from sewing t-shirts to facemasks, we look at the cities that have already successfully re-localized industry.

Bring together community development, health systems, policymakers and others to rethink how personal connections are formed.

Op-Ed: Keep farmers markets open, allow SNAP participants to order groceries online, and expand already successful programs during this time of uncertainty.

Op-Ed: How cities in the Bay Area and beyond will survive the coronavirus.

The chemicals used to keep roads clear and commerce flowing during snow season have contaminated urban groundwater supply and mutated wildlife. How three towns are weaning off the road salt to repair their environments.

Introduce “wildness” in urban design to improve life in cities.