COVID pandemic worsens housing crisis
Illinois worker must make $21.30 an hour to afford a two-bedroom apartment, more than that in collar counties.
Eight incremental development policies to help bridge the wealth gap
One of the more pernicious forms of racial inequality in this country is the wealth gap between white and Black Americans. Income gaps aside, disparities in wealth are even starker, [...]
Should Springfield have two high schools?
Springfield School District 186 faces challenges familiar to many urban school districts. Academic achievement at district high schools lags behind state averages. Parents are voting with their feet as they [...]
How to Win the Fight for Fair and Equitable Transit
Bus service shapes the geography of accessibility, and this means how we plan bus service is deeply intertwined with social equity, whether we admit it or not.
Applying a racial equity framework to ending homelessness in Illinois
Black Illinoisans are eight times more likely to experience homelessness than White Illinoisans. We need to reprioritize resources within a racial equity framework to change that.
When Green Infrastructure Is an Anti-Poverty Strategy
In Portland, inspiring stories of how resident leaders - mostly lower-income, non-English-speaking, stay-at-home mothers- push for change in their community.
5 ways social entrepreneurs are trying to cut food waste
Drought and heat waves are decimating crops around the world in countries like Afghanistan and South Sudan, driving rising hunger crises. The problem of hunger may only get worse as the global population [...]
How Community Development Lenders Work Around the Legacy of Redlining
In Highland Park, a small hamlet surrounded entirely by the city of Detroit, 2014 was not the best time to be thinking about expanding primary care and behavioral health services. [...]
Block party celebrates start of school, calls for end to violence
Just more than a week after Springfield marked its eighth homicide of the year, hundreds of residents flocked to Jaycee Park for a street festival celebrating the upcoming start of [...]
Your Local Library May Have A New Offering In Stock: A Resident Social Worker
Trish doesn't have many places to turn. She's living at her elderly father's home without a job because she can't afford the care he needs. And every day she says [...]