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A New White House Plan to Create Affordable Housing: Convert Empty Office Buildings
The Biden administration is freeing up resources to help turn offices into apartments.

American Neighborhoods Are in Trouble
An expert on fragile states around the world turns his gaze toward his own home in a new book, and finds that the US is most vulnerable at the ZIP code level.

Los Angeles Is On a Transit-Building Tear. Will Riders Follow?
A new downtown connector is a milestone in LA's $120 billion rail transit expansion plan, the largest in the US. But luring riders could require deeper change.

DC Mayor Proposes Rolling Back Progressive Reforms with New Crime Bill
Muriel Bowser's new bills would ease up some restrictions on police passed since George Floyd's murder, while cracking down on open-air drug markets and organized retail theft.

Downtown Brooklyn Gets the Gotham City Treatment
Two new skyscrapers, Brooklyn Tower and 100 Flatbush, point to the soaring Art Deco architecture of the 1930s.

Oil Bosses Try to Sell Tax-Leery Texans $1.4 Billion School Bond
With better infrastructure, the desert city of Midland, Texas, would have a better chance of drawing workers to the continent's most productive shale fields.

The Minnesota Mayor Making Space for Monarch Butterflies
Amáda Márquez Simula, the mayor of Columbia Heights, explains how her focus on saving monarch butterflies has sparked community interest in environmental conservation.

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