Monthly Archives: September 2016

An increasing number of startups, both small and large, are empowering renters. Earlier this year, Naked Apartments, a website that optimizes how brokers can proactively approach potential and current clients with appropriate, targeted listings, became Zillows fifth consumer-brand acquisition, with the shared goal of using data analytics to bring transparency to New Yorks real estate […]

Brooks Rainwater is the director of the Center for City Solutions and Applied Research at the National League of Cities. More posts by this contributor: The social side of autonomous cars and technological disruption Cities drive the maker movement How to join the network Nicole DuPuis is the senior associate for infrastructure at the Center for City […]

Are you looking for a six-bedroom house in East London with a side of serial killer? Youre in luck; weve foundjust the property for you! The house on British property website Zoopla attracted some attention from Twitter users after the photo of one particular room caught their eyes and for good reason. At first glance, […]

(CNN)“I don’t know what London’s coming to,” said the English actor, singer and playwright Noel Coward in 1931 as the city’s first skyscrapers began to rise. “The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.” The City of London is confined to a single square mile and is home to a vibrant financial sector — there […]

Amid concerns about high levels of lead, the citys water agency is fielding mounting complaints over the state of its tap water, while prices rise In many American cities, finding elevated lead levels in drinking water is enough to spark serious concern. But in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where many residents are delivered expensive, rust-colored and corrosive […]

An unconventional protest by two artists is singling out businesses they say are destroying communities in a historically African American part of the city On a corner of Seattles historically black Central Area, Sea Suds car wash and Uncle Ikes pot shop sit on either side of a well-established African American church, Mt Calvary. Across […]

Image copyright Family handout Image caption Paul Fyfe was separated from his wife Tracey (right) at the time of his death Paul Fyfe was killed in Leicester in June 2011 at the home of his girlfriend, Niomi Reid. Jogee, a drug dealer with a criminal record, knew Ms Reid and supplied her with cocaine. Jogee […]

Author Uzodinma Iweala was born in Washington DC, and says the city is in my blood, my diction and my style. But how has the city he loves, and where his mother and father worked, changed since his birth? The last time I returned to Washington DC, I arrived as I usually do, by train […]

The Democracy Now! host has been accused of entering private property during her reporting on the Native American protests of an oil pipeline North Dakota police have issued an arrest warrant for the Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman, who has been reporting on the Native American protests against an oil pipeline, accusing her of entering […]

(CNN)The 2016 election is setting new lows for presidential transparency in the modern era. Hillary Clinton is under fire for waiting until she nearly collapsed at a public event Sunday to disclose she was diagnosed Friday with pneumonia. She hasn’t provided a full accounting of her health, though Donald Trump has revealed far less. The […]