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Key Learnings From A Week Devoted To Valuing Inclusion, Belonging, And Equity
VIBE stands for “value inclusion, belonging, and equity for all.” At Workday, we recently brought those words to life by spending a week at offices across the globe learning more about how to VIBE every day.
What If the Key to Ending Homelessness Is Just That—a Key?
The radically ambitious strategy known as Housing First has been successful on a small scale; now it faces its toughest test.
Fixing Housing Is Key to Addressing Income Inequality
The number of households paying more than half their income on rent is rising
Why Personalized Learning is Key to a Successful Summer School Program
Integrate personalized learning and adaptive technology into your summer school curriculum.
Who does this land belong to?
How Street Configuration Impacts Equity
With urban pollution and traffic violence disproportionately affecting communities of color, better management of public space and streets could improve equity in cities.
Why Equity Is Critical to Our Future Infrastructure Spending
For the last century at least, infrastructure in U.S. cities has been planned, designed, and built too often without consistent and meaningful regard for the impacts on vulnerable communities, historically people of color, particularly those living in poverty.
Why Infrastructure Spending Should Center Equity
To begin to reverse decades of discrimination and disinvestment, future infrastructure spending must put equity at the forefront.
Facing the Facts About Housing Injustice Will Help Pave the Way to Racial Equity
Urban Institute research provides evidence behind six steps the federal government could take to redress our nation's history of discriminatory housing policies and achieve a more equitable future.
Achieving inclusion: Break barriers, build bridges
It’s time to meet and accept people where they are, not where we think they ought to be, writes a Korean clergywoman.
Does divine hiddenness belong to theists or atheists
Theistic literature is full of references and allusions to a self-concealing deity. The psalm writer whose poems are included in the Hebrew Bible regularly calls out, in alternating notes of perplexity, impatience and despair, to a God whose felt presence apparently seemed frustratingly inconstant. But he or she still assumes that God is there.
Want a Stronger Economy? Focus More on Racial Inclusion
As housing and community development practitioners, you need little convincing that dismantling racial barriers to economic opportunity—from policing practices to exclusionary zoning—is critical to building stronger, more cohesive communities. But what about the economic cost of these persistent racial inequities? Might segregated regions not just undermine the country’s moral fabric, but also hinder its …
Beyond Housing: Why Equity Demands a Complete Overhaul of Land Use Policy
Land use policy, planning, and practice must be fundamentally changed to achieve climate and economic justice in Black and Brown communities.
Do You Belong At Hogwarts Or The "AHS" Coven?
4 Reasons Perfectionism Doesn’t Belong in the Pastorate
Admit it, sometimes ministry is more frustrating than fun. What if the person who robs you most of the joy of ministry is you? Perfectionism has robbed me blind over the years for several reasons. …
Using an Equity Lens to Build Age-Friendly Cities
For the first time in our country’s history, we are living in some of the most diverse communities.
Is income inequality a good measure of equity in cities?
Income inequality may be a good measure of equity at the national level, where borders are more rigid and migration is difficult, but it is not as useful at the city level.
City-size counts when it comes to U.S. racial and economic inclusion
An economic downturn in a city could prove to be a useful time to put in place opportunities that promote greater racial and social inclusion
Can Inclusion of Rent and Utility Payments Reduce Racial Disparities?
Including rent and utility payments in credit reports and scoring models can increase credit scores, and reduce racial disparities in credit scores.
Subscriber Only: Clearing negative equity: should you hang tight or cash out?
For some accidental landlords, it has been a decade of playing what must feel like a zero-sum game
Can 12 Weeks at Hack School Really Get You A Programmer Job?
For the time and the money and the right student, spending your summer at a coding camp could be a smart career move.
