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An audit found that Washington state's LIHTC Eventual Tenant Ownership program, designed to help Native tenants become homeowners, had failed in its mission. Recently updated policies could help convert eligible homes.

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Two Decades In, a Native Homeownership Program in Washington Hasn’t Converted a Single Home
An audit found that Washington state's LIHTC Eventual Tenant Ownership program, designed to help Native tenants become homeowners, had failed in its mission. Recently updated policies could help conve...
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November 21, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Homelessness is solvable. Beyond the Bridge explores real-world solutions and what it takes to make them last.

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November 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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An audit found that Washington state's LIHTC Eventual Tenant Ownership program, designed to help Native tenants become homeowners, had failed in its mission. Recently updated policies could help convert eligible homes.

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Two Decades In, a Native Homeownership Program in Washington Hasn’t Converted a Single Home
An audit found that Washington state's LIHTC Eventual Tenant Ownership program, designed to help Native tenants become homeowners, had failed in its mission. Recently updated policies could help conve...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Sponsored: With the celebration of World Children's Day, KABOOM! is reflecting on a year that focused on turning its strategic vision for the health and well-being of kids into action—and fast.

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Answering Growing Concern for The State of Our Kids
Sponsored: With the celebration of World Children's Day, KABOOM! is reflecting on a year that focused on turning its strategic vision for the health and well-being of kids into action—and fast.
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November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Power & Place: A Film Series on Housing, Power & Collective Action is coming soon. Stream 3 groundbreaking docs Dec 1–14 + join the Dec 3 Filmmaker Roundtable. RSVP →

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November 19, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Fledgling dial-a-ride networks are filling gaps in public transit in the collar counties, but they struggle to meet demand.

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These Counties Spend Transit Tax Money on Ride Services. They’re Lifelines for Thousands.
Fledgling dial-a-ride networks are filling gaps in public transit in the collar counties, but they struggle to meet demand.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Podcast: The Kensington Corridor Trust and the Women’s Community Revitalization Project are proving that when residents collectively control property, they build lasting power.

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Building Power Through Collective Ownership in Philly
Podcast: The Kensington Corridor Trust and the Women’s Community Revitalization Project are proving that when residents collectively control property, they build lasting power.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Sponsored: The Nature Exploration Area Toolkit is designed by KABOOM! to help an array of people, from educators to policymakers, bring nature into playspaces and meet kids where they are in the outdoors.

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We’re Losing Contact With Nature. This New Toolkit Is Designed To Close That Gap for Kids.
Sponsored: The Nature Exploration Area Toolkit is designed by KABOOM! to help an array of people, from educators to policymakers, bring nature into playspaces and meet kids where they are in the outdo...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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A boom in energy- and water-intensive data centers has opened a new era of confrontation between energy and water across the eight Great Lakes states.

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A $15 Billion Data Center Prompts a Small Town Reckoning Near Lake Michigan
A boom in energy- and water-intensive data centers has opened a new era of confrontation between energy and water across the eight Great Lakes states.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Op-ed: From PFAS to PVC, the products that make homes durable are poisoning us. It’s time for lawmakers and builders to treat safe housing materials as a public health priority.

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If We Actually Want To Make America Healthy, We Can Start With Our Homes
Op-ed: From PFAS to PVC, the products that make homes durable are poisoning us. It’s time for lawmakers and builders to treat safe housing materials as a public health priority.
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November 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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A boom in energy- and water-intensive data centers has opened a new era of confrontation between energy and water across the eight Great Lakes states.

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A $15 Billion Data Center Prompts a Small Town Reckoning Near Lake Michigan
A boom in energy- and water-intensive data centers has opened a new era of confrontation between energy and water across the eight Great Lakes states.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Sponsored: The Nature Exploration Area Toolkit is designed by KABOOM! to help an array of people, from educators to policymakers, bring nature into playspaces and meet kids where they are in the outdoors.

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We’re Losing Contact With Nature. This New Toolkit Is Designed To Close That Gap for Kids.
Sponsored: The Nature Exploration Area Toolkit is designed by KABOOM! to help an array of people, from educators to policymakers, bring nature into playspaces and meet kids where they are in the outdo...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Three musicians, born and raised states away, find themselves among family at a local bar every Monday night. They come for the music and stay for the community.

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Kentucky’s Old Time Music Jams Are Helping Transplants Build Community
Three musicians, born and raised states away, find themselves among family at a local bar every Monday night. They come for the music and stay for the community.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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The House Next Door

What does it mean to lose, and then reclaim , a home? The House Next Door explores the deeply personal story of rebuilding after loss and what community care looks like when institutions fall short.

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November 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Advocates says Philadelphia school closings contribute to neighborhood violence and the city's festering gun crisis. As the city weighs new closings, we look at the data.

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Does Shuttering a School Impact Neighborhood Violence?
Advocates says Philadelphia school closings contribute to neighborhood violence and the city's festering gun crisis. As the city weighs new closings, we look at the data.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Op-ed: Rather than pushing for 50-year mortgages to cover housing supply failure, officials must focus on transitional and starter homes, protecting CDFIs, and aligning capital, land and labor.

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Stretching Debt Won’t Fix Housing
Op-ed: Rather than pushing for 50-year mortgages to cover housing supply failure, officials must focus on transitional and starter homes, protecting CDFIs, and aligning capital, land and labor.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Sponsored: This fund is helping small business owners re-write their adventure stories, building generational wealth and transforming communities.

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A Tale of Two Businesses
Sponsored: This fund is helping small business owners re-write their adventure stories, building generational wealth and transforming communities.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Op-ed: In August, Chicago set new nutrition standards for all food and beverages sold or served on city property. It's one of a growing number of major cities to have established healthy food purchasing policies.

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Food Procurement Policies Can Promote Healthier, More Resilient Cities
Op-ed: In August, Chicago set new nutrition standards for all food and beverages sold or served on city property. It's one of a growing number of major cities to have established healthy food purchasi...
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November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Podcast: Once a hub of Black excellence, the Pyramid Club lives again through an exhibition that links past resilience to imagination for the future.

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Philadelphia’s Pyramid Club Is Reborn Through Art and Afrofuturism
Podcast: Once a hub of Black excellence, the Pyramid Club lives again through an exhibition that links past resilience to imagination for the future.
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November 13, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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From COVID to natural disasters, organizers say they are using lessons learned to keep their people fed and healthy if and when SNAP benefits run dry.

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Kentucky Organizers Fill the Gaps as SNAP Delays Leave Families in Limbo
From COVID to natural disasters, organizers say they are using lessons learned to keep their people fed and healthy if and when SNAP benefits run dry.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Power & Place: A Film Series on Housing, Power & Collective Action is coming soon. Stream 3 groundbreaking docs Dec 1–14 + join the Dec 3 Filmmaker Roundtable. RSVP → watch.eventive.org/powerplace
#HousingJustice #Urbanism
November 7, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Photographer Abigail Montes brings the human stories of displacement, survival and belonging along the highway’s path into vivid focus.

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A Bronx Artist Is Reframing the Legacy of the Cross-Bronx Expressway
Photographer Abigail Montes brings the human stories of displacement, survival and belonging along the highway’s path into vivid focus.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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From New York to Denver, a look at the results of local ballot measures addressing affordable housing and housing justice.

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How Affordable Housing Fared at the Ballot Box in 2025
From New York to Denver, a look at the results of local ballot measures addressing affordable housing and housing justice.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Will the mayor-elect's bold campaign promises translate into the real world? Here’s what analysts say about feasibility, impact and challenges ahead.

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How Mayor Mamdani Could Reshape New York City
Will the mayor-elect's bold campaign promises translate into the real world? Here’s what analysts say about feasibility, impact and challenges ahead.
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November 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Op-ed: The minerals of Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's second-largest city, electrified the world, created atom bombs – and are key to greener energy.

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History Is Repeating Itself in the Congo as the World Scrambles for Minerals To ‘Go Green’
Op-ed: The minerals of Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo's second-largest city, electrified the world, created atom bombs – and are key to greener energy.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM