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Ten years ago, it was a banking crisis, but it became a political one. That crisis never ended.
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Housing blight — concentrated areas of vacant properties — is harming communities across the country and posing a risk to the financial system. But governments seem powerless to turn it around. We're finding out why. A special 10-part podcast series by American Banker.
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After blue collar jobs move out, crime often rushes in to take its place. That makes efforts to turn around housing that much harder.
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Small towns across the country struggle with vacant housing as much as cities, even though some of those places have plenty of jobs. Geography and a declining population are forcing many rural communities to make hard choices.
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The crisis in affordable housing has its roots in the high cost of building entry-level single-family homes. But why does it cost so much to build a house? And what did previous generations do to build affordable housing?
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Can community land trusts and Community Reinvestment Act reform fuel investment to stop urban blight?
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There are ways to fix vacant housing. So why can't we manage to do it?
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A multimillion-dollar deal between Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Stephen Calk was supposed to deliver 400 new jobs to the city. Here’s what really happened.
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Most banks have an array of charitable endeavors designed to get workers involved. But the ones on our Best Banks list have built an emotional connection with employees
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A rapidly changing workforce and the proliferation of public and shareholder activists have fundamentally reshaped the job of running a bank.
