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This housing program kicking off in Colorado is really interesting. Basically it allows tenants to build their own equity if they pay rent on time and get cash back rewards. The program was created when voters in the state passed Proposition 123 in 2022, an affordable housing program funded through income tax revenue. This program’s
This week on the Talking Headways podcast we’re joined by Chris and Melissa Bruntlett to discuss their newest book Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation. We discuss the mobility of care work and the unpaid labor the undergirds the economy, elevating the voices of people with experience, and the women getting elected to
I’m always impressed by human and animal migrations of all kinds. Right now in China due to the New Year, people are traveling all over the country to visit family and relatives for the holidays. 9.95B trips are expected over the holiday period and it’s an amazing feat of movement in a short period of
