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How an American Dream of Housing Became a Reality in Sweden
The U.S. once looked to modular construction as an efficient way to build lots of housing at scale, but Sweden picked up the idea and put it into practice.
By Francesca Mari and
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Four Decades to Build 70,000 Affordable Homes? Count That as a Success.
In 1975, New Jersey’s Supreme Court ordered every town in the state to make way for multifamily housing. It’s been a long journey.
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Colorado’s Bold New Approach to Highways — Not Building Them
The state has made it harder to widen highways, and transportation officials are turning their eyes to transit.
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CreditElliot Ross for The New York Times A City Tries to Measure the Violence It’s Preventing
In Baton Rouge, a public safety experiment could help to answer a critical question: Do community efforts to reduce street violence work?
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Is Guyana’s Oil a Blessing or a Curse?
More than any single country, Guyana demonstrates the struggle between the consequences of climate change and the lure of the oil economy.
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Over the past decade, many more schools started to offer free meals to all children, regardless of family income.
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The New York Times’s Headway team and Chalkbeat want to hear from you.
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The New York Times’s Headway team and Chalkbeat want to hear from you.
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One of the nation’s largest experiments in affordable housing to address chronic homelessness is taking shape outside the city limits.
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More in Hindsight ›Dear People of 2021: What Can We Learn From Hindsight?
For the first series from the Headway initiative, we followed up on forecasts from decades past to ask what the passage of time has revealed.
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CreditMike Haddad Millions More People Got Access to Water. Can They Drink It?
The U.N. pledged to halve the proportion of the world without access to clean drinking water by 2015.
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CreditMike Haddad What Can One Life Tell Us About the Battle Against H.I.V.?
In 2001, U.N. estimates suggested 150 million people would be infected with H.I.V. by 2021. That preceded an ambitious global campaign to curb the virus. How well did it work?
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CreditMike Haddad Europe Met a Climate Target. But Is It Burning Less Carbon?
The European Union promised to reduce its emissions 20 percent by 2020. Did it happen?
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CreditMike Haddad Extreme Poverty Has Been Sharply Cut. What Has Changed?
The U.N. pledged to cut by half the proportion of people living in the worst conditions around the world.
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More in Housing ›Can a Big Village Full of Tiny Homes Ease Homelessness in Austin?
One of the nation’s largest experiments in affordable housing to address chronic homelessness is taking shape outside the city limits.
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The nation’s fourth-largest city hasn’t solved homelessness, but its remarkable progress can suggest a way forward.
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CreditChristopher Lee for The New York Times This Is Public Housing. Just Don’t Call It That.
Montgomery County, Md., like many places, has an affordable housing crisis. So it started acting like a benevolent real estate investor.
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CreditJustin J Wee for The New York Times The Long Emergency of Homelessness
If we understood the loss of housing as a collective challenge engulfing our communities, how would it guide our response?
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CreditElliot Ross for The New York Times 30 People Tell Us What Homelessness Is Really Like
Packing groceries, bathing in fountains, finding comfort in an orange blanket. Explore people's stories and their answers to common questions.
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Progress, Revisited
More in Progress, Revisited ›How the Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike Changed the Labor Movement
The 1968 action led to greater economic mobility for Black workers. Today, union activists are trying to capture some of that spirit.
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CreditErnest C. Withers, Sr., via Withers Family Trust Three Days That Changed the Thinking About Black Women’s Health
Forty years ago, Black women convened to discuss how race affected their health. They helped reimagine what medical care could look like.
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CreditPhoto Illustration by Alanna Fields; Photograph, via Spelman College Archives Sentenced to Life as Boys, They Made Their Case for Release
At age 17, Donnell Drinks was one of many young men in Philadelphia who went to prison for life without parole. Today, the city has resentenced more of those prisoners than any other jurisdiction.
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CreditAbdul Kircher for The New York Times How Greenwood Grew a Thriving Black Economy
W.E.B. Du Bois saw the key to Black prosperity in places like Tulsa, where Black residents patronized Black stores. Even today it serves as a model.
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CreditGreenwood Cultural Center/Getty Images The Elusive Quest for Black Progress
Many measures of Black achievement in the U.S. have stalled or reversed. A series from Headway looks back at historical gains for their lessons today.
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More in Headway and The New York Times Magazine ›Remaking the River That Remade L.A.
Over the past century it has been channeled, subdued, blighted. Is it time for the Los Angeles River to serve the city in a new way?
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CreditAdali Schell for The New York Times After years of destructive weather that have disrupted Puerto Rico’s food supplies, new visions of local agriculture are taking root.
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CreditMaridelis Morales Rosado for The New York Times Architects Plan a City for the Future in Ukraine, While Bombs Still Fall
Irpin was one of the first Ukrainian cities to be destroyed and liberated. Now it’s becoming a laboratory for rebuilding.
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CreditMichal Siarek for The New York Times In an Age of Constant Disaster, What Does It Mean to Rebuild?
Each catastrophe is a test of what kind of society we’ve built. And each recovery offers a chance, however fleeting, to build another.
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CreditJamie Chung for The New York Times. Concept by Pablo Delcan. Prop stylist: JJ Chan. Can a National Museum Rebuild Its Collection Without Colonialism?
After a fire destroyed thousands of Indigenous artifacts, the curators of this Brazilian museum are adopting a radical new approach.
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More in Dear Headway ›What We Learned From Bogotá’s Buses
Transformative projects don’t conform to election cycles. They’re not the work of any single person.
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CreditFelipe Romero Beltran for The New York Times Three Days That Changed the Thinking About Black Women’s Health
Four decades ago, 2,000 Black women converged on Spelman College for a conference on health.
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CreditPhoto Illustration by Alanna Fields; Photograph, via Spelman College Archives A Climate Change Success Story? Look at Hoboken
This flood-prone city on the Hudson River balances climate infrastructure with resident needs.
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CreditDaniel Arnold for The New York Times The Lessons of the Crime Wave That Didn’t Happen
Fears of violence in the 1980s and ’90s resulted in life sentences for minors that are now being reversed.
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CreditLan Truong An Affordable Housing Solution Hidden in Plain Sight: Libraries
Building subsidized housing in America relies on cheap land, and creative ideas.
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Peatland Questions?
More in Peatland Questions? ›We asked for questions about the amazing carbon-storage capabilities of peatlands, and how these ecosystems keep the planet breathing. Readers sent us more than a thousand. Here are some answers.
Besides mosquitoes, what lives in a peatland?
We asked for questions about the amazing carbon-storage capabilities of peatlands, and how these ecosystems keep the planet breathing. Readers sent us more than a thousand. Here are some answers.
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We asked for questions about the amazing carbon-storage capabilities of peatlands, and how these ecosystems keep the planet breathing. Readers sent us more than a thousand. Here are some answers.
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We asked for questions about the amazing carbon-storage capabilities of peatlands, and how these ecosystems keep the planet breathing. Readers sent us more than a thousand. Here are some answers.
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We asked for questions about the amazing carbon-storage capabilities of peatlands, and how these ecosystems keep the planet breathing. Readers sent us more than a thousand. Here are some answers.
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What We’ve Heard From Teens About the 2024 Election
Since September, the Headway team has been asking teenagers across the country for their thoughts on the election. Here’s what we’ve heard so far.
By Matthew Thompson
The 10 Most Common Questions Teenagers Asked About the Election
Headway has received more than 500 questions from teens about this year’s presidential election. Here are their most frequently asked questions — and our answers.
By Terry Parris Jr. and Anna Diamond
Teens, What Makes You Want to Make Your Voice Heard?
This week, the Headway Election Challenge hears from teenagers who are turning out the vote for this year’s election, and even working to pass legislation.
By Matthew Thompson
‘Chaotic,’ ‘Misleading,’ ‘Informative’: What Teens Said About 2024 Election Coverage
More than 400 teenagers have participated in the Headway Election Challenge.
By Terry Parris Jr.
Teens, What Moments in the 2024 Election Do You Want to Remember?
It’s Week 3 of the Headway Election Challenge. Help us create a time capsule of this election year.
By Matthew Thompson
What Teens Told Us About Their Investment in the Election
In Week 1 of the Headway Election Challenge, we heard from more than 200 teens.
By Terry Parris Jr.
Teens, How Are You Informing Yourself and Others About the Election?
It’s Week 2 of the Headway Election Challenge. Tell us how you sift through all the information out there.
By Terry Parris Jr.
Why Teen Voices Matter in the 2024 Election
Introducing the Headway Election Challenge, a running conversation with teenagers about their role in U.S. democracy.
By Matthew Thompson
Calling All Teens: How Much Does the 2024 Election Matter to You?
Join the Headway Election Challenge to share your thoughts and help shape the conversation.
By Terry Parris Jr.
making it workMontana Has More Cows Than People. Why Are Locals Eating Beef From Brazil?
Cole Mannix, of Old Salt Co-op, is trying to change local appetites and upend an industry controlled by multibillion-dollar meatpackers.
By Susan Shain and Rebecca Stumpf
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