This Is What Resiliency Planning Looks Like
OffCite | The Resilient by Design challenge offers lessons for resiliency planning that can address environmental crises as well as challenges in socioeconomic and racial inequity.

Urban Review: Parks versus People, Prenatal Care in Texas and School to Prison Research
This week's roundup covers a new analysis of maternal risk factors across Texas, asks whether big park projects and the communities around them can get along, looks at law enforcement referrals in schools after high-profile shootings and even a Drake reference.

Blue Needle In A Red Haystack: Why One Texas Woman Is Taking on the Odds This November
Amid a wave of women candidates, Lisa Seger of Blue Heron Farm makes a run for it.

How To Improve The Recovery Funding Process
Eleven months post-Hurricane Harvey, what lessons have been learned?

Voice of San Diego | As the government struggles to stay on top of the surge in prosecutions of those accused of entering the country illegally, prosecutors are making errors they normally wouldn’t.

Urban Review: Extreme Heat, MUDs and Rainwater
This week's roundup includes extreme heat, municipal utility districts after Harvey and a smarter stormwater management system in Los Angeles.

Study: When Looking For and Buying a House, Racial Inequality and Discrimination Compound
A new Houston area study examines how race plays a factor at each stage of the home buying process.

Where Intermarriage Is Increasing the Most
While it's increasing overall, the change varies by county.

Q+A: Why The Harvey Health and Housing Registry Needs You
An innovative study tracking the effects of Hurricane Harvey looks for input from Houston-area residents, whether they were directly affected by the storm or not.

The Rise of the “Nones” and Other Shifts in Area Residents’ Religious Identity and Attitudes
Changes in religious identity are strongly associated with attitudes toward diversity and government programs.

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