All articles by Alexandra Kanik
Alexandra Kanik
The most and least housing-secure US metro areas in 2020
City Monitor’s Housing Security Index finds that in the US, metros with high shares of jobs in accommodation and food service face some of the biggest challenges due to Covid-19.
Housing Security Index 2020: US
Explore metro-area data related to US housing security in our interactive index.
The decisions cities made about coronavirus had a big impact on bike-share ridership
Offering free or reduced memberships broke down barriers to cycling.
Urgently needed: Timely, more detailed standardised data on US evictions
A newly created database is a good start but nowhere near enough.
The reality of US city budgets: Police funding eclipses most other agencies’
City Monitor analysed the past three years of general-fund budgets from US cities that have seen major or noteworthy protests in 2020.
In expensive cities, the future of residential construction is deeply uncertain
The Covid-19 pandemic has sharpened up some already pressing questions about affordable housing.
How the pandemic upended crime patterns
An examination of April crime statistics across eight US cities.