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• Fixing the Housing Crisis Goes Beyond Building More Units

  The housing crisis isn’t just about supply. This episode explores innovative solutions like community land trusts, tenant protections, and expanded assistance programs that are making homes affordable — and keeping them that way.

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• Happy Presidents' Day!

  This is Lucas Grindley from Next City, a show about changemakers and their stories. We’re off this week but we’ll be back next Wednesday with more inspiring and workable ideas that move our society toward justice and equity. If you can’t wait for the next story, head to NextCity.org for the latest coverage. As always, we’d love to hear any feedback from our listeners. Please feel free to email us at [email protected]. And if you haven’t already, subscribe to the show on Apple, Spotify, Goodpods or anywhere you listen to your podcasts. We’ll see you next week.

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• Inside the Fight to Save LGBTQ Landmarks and Culture

  Preserving the stories and spaces that define LGBTQ communities is an act of resilience and resistance. Hear from designers, historians, and activists about the vital work of safeguarding these cultural landmarks and ensuring their legacy endures.

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• The Intersection of Philanthropy, Storytelling, and Racial Justice

  Stories shape how we see the world. In this episode, we bring together philanthropic leaders to explore how funders are relying on journalism to dismantle harmful narratives, amplify underrepresented voices and create equitable communities.If you know Next City, it'll come as no surprise that we believe journalism can be a powerful vehicle for racial justice. Here in the nonprofit media world, we've seen countless examples of how philanthropy can help fund that change by funding impactful, community-driven journalism. And it's not just media funders – increasingly funders who might not traditionally focus on media are leveraging storytelling to advance their broader missions of inclusive economies, cultural preservation, health equity and more.“We think of narrative control as a precondition for long-term change,” says Inés Familiar Miller, program officer at the Kresge Foundation's Arts & Culture Program. “Seeing real people can combat some of those negative narratives where someone else is telling you the story of the immigrant community, of the Black community, of the Indigenous community. It's just not the full picture. And once you hear directly from the people … it could provide like a very different perspective.”In this conversation, we hear from several funders of Next City's funders, including Miller, Surdna Foundation's Vice President of Programs Patrice R. Green, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Director of Media Relations Jordan Reese, who describe their strategy in funding journalism and media. We also hear from Karen Rundlet, CEO of the Institute for Nonprofit News, on the need to view our country's journalism infrastructure as a public good.

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• Emergent City: A Decade-Long Fight Against Displacement

  What happens when a Brooklyn neighborhood takes on deep-pocketed developers? In this episode, we talk to the directors of "Emergent City" and the organizers who fought to preserve Sunset Park’s future.“Emergent City” (emergentcitydoc.com) documents the 10-year saga of how Brooklyn's Sunset Park community came together to fight a rezoning wanted by deep-pocketed developers. Against all odds, residents won. Filmmakers were there from the very beginning, when developers proposed transforming Industry City, a sprawling industrial site on the Brooklyn waterfront, into a high-end retail and office complex – or, as some residents put it, a “mall.” They were there when Sunset Park residents protested that the Industry City complex, if it won rezoning, would accelerate gentrification and displacement in a neighborhood where about 70% of households are renters. They were there for some 200 days of public meetings.By the way—this is our 100th episode! Thank you to everyone who has listened over the years. If you'd like to support and celebrate this work, please visit nextcity.org/donate to pitch in.

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