A new Urban Institute study examined low-income housing in Alexandria, Virginia, to look for new answers to an age-old question.
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The preservation campaign stalled for years over difficulties in documenting Underground Railroad ties that were clandestine by design.
To tackle barriers to capital for Black businesses, an Oakland project is trying a new strategy: Monthly cash payments, no strings attached.
If Joe Biden hopes to enact an ambitious recovery agenda modeled on the New Deal, he must confront its racist legacy.
In the early 1970s, African Americans in North Carolina coalesced around constructing a new community where the mission was black empowerment. And they were able to pull it off with financing from President Richard Nixon.
A new Brookings Institution report shows how black migration patterns have been reshaping the urban landscape, particularly in the South.
The grandiose buildings were originally inhabited by European aristocracy, but their central courtyards later turned into spaces for communal living.
The ironclad homes of Iceland's capital city may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than century.
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Singapore’s affordable housing program worked so well that some of its subsidized apartments now resell for more than $700,000.
Built to beat the heat, these distinctive elongated homes are a fixture of the Crescent City, and beyond.
