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Stephen Wendel • Designing for Behavior Change: Applying Psychology and Behavioral Economics
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Adam Grant • Hidden Potential
US Environmental Protection Agency,2 US Department of Housing and Urban Development,3 National Association of Realtors,4 Smart Growth America,5 Reconnecting America,6 Center for Neighborhood Technology,7 Center for Transit-Oriented Development,8
Arthur C. Nelson • Reshaping Metropolitan America: Development Trends and Opportunities to 2030 (Metropolitan Planning + Design)
Katie Parrott • Legitimacy Lost
Today, only one in three new homes in America is “self-built” by individuals. In the United Kingdom, the figure is an abysmal one in ten. A regulatory thicket makes it prohibitively difficult and costly for individuals to build.
Sacha Meyers • Bitcoin Is Venice: Essays on the Past and Future of Capitalism
“Predatory inclusion” is what historian Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor calls it in her book Race for Profit, describing the long-standing American tradition of incorporating marginalized people into housing and financial schemes through bad deals when they are denied good ones. The exclusion of poor people from traditional banking and credit systems has f
... See moreMatthew Desmond • Poverty, by America
W. E. B. Du Bois taught us this, and we teach it to our students. Whiteness was offered as a promise. Precarity makes it less sturdy. There are White people who work hard all of their lives and Whiteness gives them little materially. On the other hand, there are White people who come from powerful edifices, who can point to paintings on Vanderbilt’
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