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Throughout 2018's Sol-2-Sol climate justice convening, indigenous people led many of the actions and activities.

A new book explores the history, impact, and policy solutions to racial segregation.

Several organizations are working to coordinate health care investments in ways that will allow funding to truly boost community health.

With the intensification of weather patterns resulting from climate change, community land trusts perform vital functions that help people recover.

An Alaskan collective's perspective on taking care of oneself can apply to organizations that work with communities that have experienced trauma. After all, organizations should make the mental and physical health of their staff a top priority, too.

Our talk with Radhika Fox, the CEO of the US Water Alliance, about water justice and ways to build stronger communities.

A coalition's comprehensive study on the Detroit region’s water ills also acts as a road map to organizers' work around water justice.

Including rent and utility payments in credit reports and scoring models can increase credit scores, and reduce racial disparities in credit scores.

How to train organizers to work across various communities, not just neighborhoods.

Four reasons why organizations should consider owning property in the neighborhood they work in.

By building energy-efficient properties, Habitat reduces heating costs and frees up more than $100 each month for homeowners.

How can affordable housing be more resilient to extreme weather and better prepared to deal with the consequences of climate change?

Cities cannot weather the effects of climate change without going beyond infrastructure to address institutional racism, historical inequities, and access to physical and mental health services.

Communities need accurate maps and more access to data to increase flood resilience—but right now FEMA's not providing that.

After natural disasters, recovery efforts tend to lift up those who have resources to bounce back quickly, but cement poverty for those with modest means.

Community development fits well within the growing resilience movement—and connecting the two more explicitly could make their work even more powerful.

My first reaction to the emergence of “resilience” as a lens for viewing community development was mostly informed by skepticism.

In our fifth installment, we take a look at how organizations are taking health care investments in housing to the next level, and how cities can weather the effects of climate change by going beyond infrastructure to address institutional racism, historical inequities, and access to physical and mental health services.