Tech companies are increasingly telling employees they will not need to return to the office after the pandemic. That could further threaten some of the region's lowest-paid jobs.
It's not just the US: left-wing parties suffer in many countries because their voters are heavily concentrated in urban areas.
Author and legal scholar Richard Schragger says the US's big-city mayors focus on policies far outside their control and lose sight of the ways they can actually effect change.
Even prior to Covid-19, multigenerational living was on the rise in countries like the US. Finding and purchasing houses that are suited to this style of habitation is often needlessly difficult.
This car-centric assessment of roads and mass transit fails to consider the wide range of needs that people and cities have regarding transportation networks.
In normal years, the events industry pumps millions of dollars into local economies. Now empty hotels and convention centres are an epicentre for lost jobs and revenue.
Relying on targeted taxes and fees has proved troublesome this year, while property taxes look like a relatively safe bet.
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.
Explore metro-area data related to US housing security in our interactive index.
Law professor James Forman Jr discusses the dangers of overreacting to an uptick in violent crime.
US cities are about as safe as ever, but police practices don't reflect that, says sociologist Patrick Sharkey.
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