How Philadelphia Kept Thousands of Tenants From Being Evicted
A lockdown-era program that gets landlords talking to tenants has had notable success for both. Can it continue?
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A lockdown-era program that gets landlords talking to tenants has had notable success for both. Can it continue?
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Scenes from one woman’s journey out of homelessness in Houston.
By Elliot Ross and
A decade in the works, the 11th Street Bridge Park in Washington, D.C., has yet to be built. But it could be a model for how to create public space while lessening the effects of gentrification.
By Megan Kimble and
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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How Houston Moved 25,000 People From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own
The nation’s fourth-largest city hasn’t solved homelessness, but its remarkable progress can suggest a way forward.
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What’s a President to Do When a Nation’s Capital Is Sinking? Move It.
Jakarta, like many places, faces an unsustainable future. Indonesia’s president is responding by building a new capital city from scratch.
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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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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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What Do the Protectors of Congo’s Peatlands Get in Return?
The world is suddenly focused on a huge natural carbon store in the Congo Basin. Its guardians are asking what they're owed for keeping it intact.
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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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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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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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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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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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How Houston Moved 25,000 People From the Streets Into Homes of Their Own
The nation’s fourth-largest city hasn’t solved homelessness, but its remarkable progress can suggest a way forward.
By Michael Kimmelman, Lucy Tompkins and
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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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.
Interviews by Susan Shain and
What Don’t You Know About Homelessness?
Most experiences of homelessness are hidden by design, but they reveal much about how communities work, or don’t.
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If Housing Is a Health Care Issue, Should Medicaid Pay the Rent?
With federal housing money in short supply, state and local authorities are looking to health dollars to help tackle homelessness.
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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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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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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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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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Shifts in bird populations can be a sign of a changing climate. This summer, help scientists learn about the birds in your area.
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As more consumers try to cut down on plastic waste, both start-ups and big brands like Clorox are hoping to usher in a new age of refillable cleaners.
By Susan Shain
The average U.S. household wastes nearly a third of the food it buys. This community is nudging its residents to change their habits.
By Susan Shain
Each catastrophe is a test of what kind of society we’ve built. And each recovery offers a chance, however fleeting, to build another.
By Matthew Thompson
Headway wants to learn more about the people affected by this issue and the stories we should tell.
By Matthew Thompson
Buildings are responsible for nearly 40 percent of the world’s carbon emissions. In Amsterdam, they are trying to create a blueprint to do something about it.
By Jessica Camille Aguirre
Hear from Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister, and other global leaders in a livestream of the New York Times Climate Forward event during COP27 from Egypt.
By The New York Times
Homelessness bundles together so many problems: a broken mental health system, racial inequity, the affordable housing crisis. The headlines can be overwhelming. Last year I started talking with experts. They had a different view. They told me about Houston.
By Michael Kimmelman
I met Wendy Marcum last summer at The Beacon, a homeless shelter in downtown Houston. Wendy told me she was 56 years old and had been homeless for three years. I asked for her number so we could stay in touch
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Headway wants to learn more about the people affected by this issue and the stories we should tell.
By Lucy Tompkins and Terry Parris Jr.
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