During his administration, Mayor Bloomberg won accolades not so much for his vow to reduce poverty but rather for the way he tried to accomplish that goal: through a battery of mostly small, pilot ...

During the next Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods (PRCHN) seminar, Erika Trapl, associate director of PRCHN and associate professor in the Department of Population and Quantitative ...

Opening a new supermarket in a low-income neighborhood may improve residents' economic well-being and health, even if residents don't necessarily buy healthier food from the store, according to a new ...

America’s era of big public housing projects was a grand experiment whose period of favor was remarkably short-lived. The austere, often high-rise complexes rose across US cities in a few decades, ...

O ne well-worn refrain of progressive urban politics is that new, “luxury” housing will not help solve the housing shortage. A 2024 study of U.S. voters found that 30 to 40 pe ...