✦ Smart cities, for real this time

US abortion clinics in border cities are preparing for a wave of new patients

Can communities be better landlords?

Toronto is giving up on North America’s largest municipal broadband network

Houston’s huge new urban solar farm is a win for environmental justice

Florida’s battle with Disney, explained

Blackstone is capitalizing on the shortage in US student housing

The world’s coastal cities are sinking, but not for the reason you think

Austin plans to pay low-income residents $1,000 a month in Texas’s first basic income pilot

Philadelphia’s mask mandate lasted less than a week

What’s in store for empty downtown office buildings?

US mortgage interest rates hit 5% for the first time in a decade. That’s great news.

How Washington state brokered a truce between Uber and its drivers

✦ There goes the neighborhood

Why California succeeded—and New York failed—at turning hotels into affordable housing

MacKenzie Scott’s $436 million donation is a downpayment on US affordable housing

What a 19th century post office reform teaches us about urban innovation

The US’s top housing authority just declared housing a human right

The rise in wages for low-income Americans is no match for the rise in US gas prices

What will change if the US adopts daylight saving time permanently?

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