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Mitigating Gentrification: How Several Sun Belt Cities Are Responding
With a new report shedding light on the stages of gentrification affecting various neighborhoods across Harris County, how are communities and cities responding?
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In the Age of Hacking and Social Media, Is the Census Bureau Ready For Technical Difficulties?
This is the first cenusus that will be online and in a world with social media. So is the bureau ready for hackers, fake news and social media campaigns?
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With Rising Disaster Costs Comes Increasing Inequality
New research builds on the work of two sociologists documenting the connection between disasters and inequality.
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Q+A: The Rising Risks of Urban Flooding
From existing data sources to flood mitigation practices, cities need to step up to respond to a national challenge.
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New Localism Moves Nation-States to the Back, Advances the City-State to the Forefront
Bruce Katz argues that the only way to efficiently create change in a nation is to work on the hyper-local level.
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Urban Review: The Power of Porches, Subsidized Healthcare and a 100-Day Agenda for Harris County
This week, new research on the link between access to subsidized health care and falling behind on rent or mortgage payments, a poetic look at the power of porches, possible priorities for Harris County's new leadership and more.
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These are the many things considered in designing a park for Houston and how you can have a say
Houston's goal is to have a park within a half mile or 10-minute walk for residents and once the land is acquired, the designing process begins.
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Map: Eligible and Likely to Naturalize
An interactive map from USC looks not just at the populations eligible to naturalize but their likelihood as well.
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What To Watch: Looking Ahead to the 86th Legislative Session
Thanks in part to the results of the recent election, lawmakers are underscoring this session as a time to focus on "bread and butter" issues.
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Legislative Report: Hurricane Harvey Recovery Has Cost $2.7 Billion So Far, Most Paid by Feds
Texas Tribune | A report released Friday by the Texas Senate's budget-writing committee laid out past and future costs related to recovery from "the most costly disaster ever to hit the Texas coast."
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