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The Windy City Path: Funding the Future of Transit In Chicago
A transportation analyst sums up how far the city has come on restructuring its transit infrastructure---and how far it has yet to go. More »
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Pulling the Purse Strings: Choice and Competition in Public Schools
Urban school districts spend to compete. More »
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Cities Insecure: Urban Poor in Times of Rising Food Prices
The pricey downside of life in the city. More »
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Browner Pastures
Brownfield makeovers aren't glamorous for everyone. More »
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Flooding the Urban Food Deserts
A new Chicago start-up hopes to fill up the city's food deserts with a new approach---and with sound policy. More »
Disparities in Home Are Disparities in Health
A family’s housing reality is often viewed as an index of its economic situation. However, Brian Jacob, Jens Ludwig, and Douglas Miller's new NBER working paper joins a groundswell of research that demonstrates that housing situations are in fact proxies for m... More »
Where Are Charters the Answer?
Charters are commonly seen as the answer to urban school districts’ troubles. However, it appears that they are not the answer to education issues everywhere, and may not be the answer at all. More »
Greening the Rust Belt
As the economy struggles to rebound and the foreclosure crisis takes its toll on American cities, vacant land and abandoned buildings continue to abound. For America’s once-great manufacturing cities, the impact has been even greater as metropolitan areas thro... More »
Immergluck and the Evolution of the FHA
Some might like to blame George Bush’s “ownership society,” with its emphasis on homeownership as a cure-all for social ills of all kinds, for the intrusion of the federal government into the housing and mortgage markets. But as Dan Immergluck explains in his ... More »