Survey results: Housing affordability in your city
Last month, we invited you to answer our short survey on how you view housing affordability in your city. Here...
Sports Stadium Subsidies: Fair or Foul?
Once you look past rosy economic impact predictions and the glittering stadium renderings, the evidence of decades’ worth of real-world...
The Bills’ new stadium is a bad deal for taxpayers
The New York Legislature has managed to craft one of the worst stadium deals in recent memory – a remarkable...
Can Charleston, SC, housing prices level out?
Big cities — despite the values of propinquity, density, and scale — are simply not where most Americans want to...
Will Americans return to urban living?
Big cities — despite the values of propinquity, density, and scale — are simply not where most Americans want to...
Minnesota county seized 93-year-old’s condo over a $2,300 tax bill and kept the profits
Property owner is not contesting that she failed to pay her property taxes, nor is she trying to evade responsibility...
North Carolina is the most recent state to expand school choice
It seemed like the big 2021 school choice party was finally winding to an end around August. 18 states had created...
Nonpartisan redistricting in California: A Q&A with Sara Sadhwani
California recently finalized its redistricting map. The state lost one seat after the 2020 Census, but the Golden State still...
Do “no-knock” warrants have a place in modern policing?
Protests in Minneapolis over the death of a 22-year-old man during a police raid have reignited debate over the role...
Truth in Accounting: Financial State of the Cities 2022
At the end of FY 2020, 61 cities did not have enough money to pay all their bills. This means...
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