All articles by jake blumgart
jake blumgart
Why you shouldn’t confuse 2020 for 1968
Author and historian Rick Perlstein discusses the current limits on law-and-order politics.
The pandemic economy could revive one of America’s ugliest fights over local control
Professor Kim Phillips-Fein explains today’s parallels with New York City’s financial disaster in 1975.
A very American form of essential work: Gun-violence prevention
There’s another epidemic in American cities, and it’s only gotten harder to address.
In cities like Baltimore, municipal elections are a show that must go on, somehow
The pandemic has changed nearly everything about campaigning locally.
The pandemic is pushing US city budgets into a new age of austerity
Economists warn that local budget cuts could counteract federal stimulus money.
Slums are becoming a focal point of the Covid-19 outbreak
The coronavirus poses a special threat to these poor, dense, underserved communities.
Why US cities haven’t just given every homeless person a hotel room during the pandemic
“We’re in a build-the-plane-while-you-are-flying-it mode here.
Americans are still being evicted during the coronavirus pandemic
Matthew Desmond discusses housing protections during a global emergency.
An economic crash opens a ‘window for hope’ on universal basic income
A researcher explains how cash assistance fits into governments’ response to coronavirus.
Post-pandemic, the risk to public transport is that it might never be the same
Unpacking the financial reality of mass transit’s uncertain future.