New York’s participatory budgeting experiment shows there are no shortcuts — and no algorithmic fixes — for building ...

What led you to write Budget Justice—and how would you define the term? Celina Su: I define budget justice as giving everyday ...

In four years participatory budgeting has exploded from four to 27 New York City Council districts. With over 51,000 voters casting ballots last cycle to allocate a total of $32 million dollars to ...

Rebecca Wei lives in Rogers Park, and like many Chicagoans, she takes the ‘L’ everywhere. “I pass by the Morse ‘L’ stop twice a day, every day, and once or twice a year, there’s a guy standing there ...

SOMERVILLE — The city has launched its second cycle of "participatory budgeting," a program that sets aside $1 million in the city budget for residents to propose and vote on hand-picked projects.

In April, the New York City Council completed its eighth annual cycle of participatory budgeting, a process through which city residents vote directly on how they would like to see a designated ...

On Monday King County Equity Now research director Shaun Glaze presented to the Seattle City Council a preliminary report on the look, function, and priorities of the Black Brilliance Research Project ...

What if changing the way the City of Detroit spends a small percentage of its annual budget could change a lot? In Detroit, 18% of eligible voters cast ballots in the last mayoral election — just ...

Evanston received $43 million from the American Rescue Plan Act in 2021 and 2022 to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hoping to identify areas of need, the city put $3 million toward a novel solution: ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. In this excerpt from “Hyperlocal: Place Governance in a ...

Sacramento might have an opportunity to give some residents more say in how some of its budget is spent. But with money tight as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, some are debating how much of the ...

Milka Losia knew it was the river’s fault that her brother died. The culprit was the dirty brown water they had no choice but to drink. ‘Our village needs a hospital, people are dying,” said Benson ...