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Disasters can wipe out affordable housing for years unless communities plan ahead – the loss hurts the entire local economy

by lisadtinsley March 18, 2022

Shannon Van Zandt – Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University The tornadoes and wildfires that devastated communities from Kentucky to Colorado in the final weeks of 2021 left thousands of people …

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How African thinkers of the 1980s fed into today’s inequality debates

by lisadtinsley December 2, 2021

Mélanie Lindbjerg Guichon – PhD Candidate, Aarhus University Inequality is an issue that arises everywhere in the world today. Recent studies by economists such as Branko Milanovic and Thomas Piketty have looked at trends …

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The Benefits of Urban Gardens in Small Spaces

by lisadtinsley November 14, 2021

Lisa D. Tinsley Urban gardens are transforming cities around the world. Urban and peri-urban farms supply food to about 700 million city dwellers — one-quarter of the world’s urban population …

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Dangerous urban heat exposure has tripled since the 1980s, with the poor most at risk

by lisadtinsley October 22, 2021

Extreme urban heat exposure has dramatically increased since the early 1980s, with the total exposure tripling over the past 35 years. Today, about 1.7 billion people, nearly one-quarter of the …

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Children’s Defense Fund: State of America’s Children Reveals that Children of Color are 71 Percent of Those That Live in Poverty

by lisadtinsley April 1, 2021

By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia The child population in America is the most diverse in history, but children remain the poorest age group in the …

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