Homeless people in Copenhagen will no longer face fines or eviction for sleeping in parks or green spaces under a proposal by the city government politics Article 276 words 19 votes
American cities that want to attract business might want to focus less on financial incentives and more on making people feel safe politics Article 610 words 11 votes
Peru declares state of emergency as violent crimewave engulfs Lima politics Article 345 words 13 votes
GOP government funding bill threatens to cut $1Billion from Washington DC local budget politics Article 1214 words 12 votes
Successful policy in small or medium sized cities frequently goes unnoticed - a case for taking inventory of what works politics Article 2935 words 10 votes
St Louis property owners receive giant bills from the city for repairs they didn’t agree to. Now, it’s under investigation. politics Video 10:47 11 votes
Bashar al-Assad has left Damascus, senior army officers say; Syria rebels say they are in capital politics Article 1014 words 42 votes
Compensation arrives seven years after siege that left Marawi a ‘dead city’ politics Article 1029 words 7 votes
San Francisco becomes first US city to ban automated rent-fixing technology politics Article 478 words 66 votes
US Supreme Court allows cities to enforce bans on homeless people sleeping outside politics Article 363 words 35 votes
How does Paris stay Paris? By pouring billions into public housing. politics Article 1325 words, published Mar 17 2024 17 votes
The hottest trend in US cities? Changing zoning rules to allow more housing. politics Article 1744 words 42 votes
San Francisco and Grants Pass Oregon lawsuits about homelessness highlight this question: Do those who reject shelter choose homelessness? politics Article 1148 words 16 votes
Rubble and ruin: How houses in Delhi were turned to rubble before the G20 politics Article 903 words, published Sep 5 2023 8 votes
Dozens injured after opponents of the Eritrean government stormed a festival, Festival Eritrea Scandinavia, in the Swedish capital organised by regime supporters politics Article 530 words 10 votes
Social movements and trade unions in Peru are holding a third massive march on the capital, Lima on July 19 politics Article 1931 words 13 votes
Trendy neighbourhood in Copenhagen bracing for major protests over anti-ghetto law – critics say it's racist and pushing out remaining social housing politics Article 641 words 5 votes
Jair Bolsonaro supporters invade Brazil's Congress, Supreme Court in Brasilia politics Article 94 words 30 votes
Diplomats from Finland have a unique way of engaging with people – will the UK warm to naked sauna diplomacy? politics Article 906 words 4 votes
‘A profound betrayal of trust’: Why Jackson’s water system is broken Article 3390 words, published Mar 24 2021 8 votes
CNN's Nic Robertson tours an underground bunker in Helsinki, Finland, housed in a parking garage. The Finnish capital's bunkers can shelter more than 900,000 people. politics Article 7 votes
Pentagon won’t punish any troops over errant drone strike in Kabul that killed ten civilians Article 398 words 4 votes
Belgium has expelled five Danish far-right activists and banned them for a year over their plans to burn a Quran in a mainly-Muslim area of Brussels politics Article 33 words 10 votes
Lebanon’s prime minister resigns in the wake of the catastrophic explosion in Beirut and the ensuing public outrage politics Article 1047 words 6 votes
Explaining the urban-rural political divide: Why do Democrats so often concentrate in cities? politics Article 7911 words, published Jul 17 2019 6 votes
A group of Copenhagen residents sued the Danish government Wednesday over legislation that authorized dismantling neighborhoods designated as ghettos Article 363 words 5 votes
Denmark's housing minister wants to scrap ghetto label for underprivileged areas politics Article 511 words 4 votes
30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s housing crisis politics Article 4245 words 19 votes
United Nations cautions against unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital politics Article 825 words 13 votes