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Join Lucas Grindley, executive director at Next City, where we believe journalists have the power to amplify solutions and spread workable ideas. Each week Lucas will sit down with trailblazers to discuss urban issues that get overlooked. At the end of the day, it's all about focusing the world's attention on the good ideas that we hope will grow. Grab a seat from the bus, subway, light-rail, or whatever your transit-love may be and listen on the go as we spread solutions from one city to the Next City .

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Summer Break

June 24, 2026 • 14 secs
Next City is on a brief hiatus for the summer. We'll be back at the end of July. Thank you for listening to Next City. Together we can spread good ideas from one city to the next city.
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On Being Planners With Purpose

June 10, 2026 • 43 mins
We are creating a podcast episode about these three episodes related to the Planners With A Purpose conference that Next City sponsored.
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After 150 Episodes, Revisiting Our Favorite Solutions

June 3, 2026 • 37 mins
The Next City podcast debuted in November 2021 and has now recorded 150 episodes, with hundreds of interviews about solutions with changemakers. Host Lucas Grindley and Editorial Director Deonna Anderson look back on some of the biggest takeaways after more than 75 hours worth of journalism.
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For Immigrant Communities, These Organizations Build Belonging

May 20, 2026 • 43 mins
Sponsored podcast: From Chelsea to the Berkshires, these organizations do the frontline work of caring for their community when federal policy turns hostile.  When ICE raids and hostile federal policies destabilize entire communities, frontline organizations in cities and rural counties alike are answering with door-knocking, theater, wellness programs, and the slow work of building power from within. In this sponsored epi...
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How Boston’s Chinatown Turns Culture Into Power

May 13, 2026 • 38 mins
This sponsored series is created in partnership with The Culture & Community Power Fund (C&CPF), a national funders’ collaborative advancing the role of culture in building identity, agency, and collective power. This series explores the cultural ecosystem—the traditions, stories, rituals, and spaces that sustain frontline communities—and what it takes to support and strengthen it. Read the compl...
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How To Transform Closed Schools for Community

May 6, 2026 • 35 mins
Today, we're learning about the effort to ensure public school buildings continue serving neighborhoods even after they close.
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Real Solutions Are Everywhere

April 29, 2026 • 37 mins
A partner episode with the podcast, Real Solutions, produced with The Othering & Belonging Institute.
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Lessons on Serving Immigrant Communities Under Attack

April 22, 2026 • 38 mins
As immigrant communities face daily threats from ICE and the Trump administration, they need allies they can trust. And that's why today we're looking at nonprofit newsrooms that speak directly with immigrant communities.
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Community Power Is Finally Going Big in Economic Development

April 15, 2026 • 34 mins
Community-owned commercial real estate models are starting to make bigger splashes, thanks in part to building relationships with investors and officials who see their value.
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Tenants Rising: Organizing for Housing Justice, Part 2

April 8, 2026 • 34 mins
Examine tenant-led movements and legal strategies to preserve affordability and resist displacement. It could highlight lawsuits like the one in Missouri where tenants fought to keep their homes within the LIHTC program, connecting to broader tenant unionization efforts nationwide.
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Tenants Rising: Organizing for Housing Justice, Part 1

April 1, 2026 • 32 mins
Examine tenant-led movements and legal strategies to preserve affordability and resist displacement. It could highlight lawsuits like the one in Missouri where tenants fought to keep their homes within the LIHTC program, connecting to broader tenant unionization efforts nationwide.
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This City Spent $1 Million To Erase $90 Million in Residents’ Debt

March 25, 2026 • 33 mins
On a daily basis, thousands of Americans are faced with the choice of whether to seek needed medical care, or stay home untreated to avoid sliding further into debt. But one city in Kentucky has found a way to alleviate the dangerous pressures of medical debt for its residents.
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Artists in Government: Creativity as Civic Infrastructure

March 18, 2026 • 33 mins
If we want to imagine a better world, artists might be better than anyone for the job.  Today, we are looking at artists-in-residence programs in government.
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Building Affordable Housing Without Federal Dollars

March 11, 2026 • 36 mins
One new reality many community leaders are dealing with: Federal funding is rocky, to say the least. So today, we're looking at affordable housing solutions that have located sources of funding outside of the federal goverment. We'll visit Pittsburgh, Atlanta, South Texas, and Seattle to learn about four locally-driven funding models for affordable housing.
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From Tangled Title to Shared Prosperity

March 4, 2026 • 34 mins
Across the country, low-income communities face threats of displacement, predatory investment activity and limited wealth-building opportunities. One often-overlooked contributor to these dynamics: a lack of formal estate planning. When a homeowner passes away without an estate plan, their home often becomes an “heirs’ property,” a property with no clear title. Without a clear title, homeowners face immense barrie...
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A Food Security Solution for Urban and Rural Neighbors

February 25, 2026 • 34 mins
Highlighting our recent coverage on nonprofit and alternative grocery models in Kentucky, this event would look at how communities—from urban Lexington to rural areas—are addressing food insecurity through creative, equitable approaches to food access.
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Solutions for Rebuilding After Climate Disaster

February 11, 2026 • 41 mins
Explore how communities in Altadena are rebuilding after devastating wildfires, with a focus on inclusive, community-led design and architecture. It would spotlight the role of Black architects and collaborations like AfroLA, emphasizing environmental justice and equitable recovery.
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Telling the Story of Housing Affordability

February 4, 2026 • 39 mins
Even though housing is a crisis in every American city, we hear over and over that telling the story effectively is a big challenge. Today, we’re taking lessons on how to tell the story from the filmmakers of four different documentaries.
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How We Build Community Ownership and Self-Determination

January 28, 2026 • 37 mins
New models of collective power are emerging in neighborhoods where residents have always found ways to support one another, even as economic systems excluded and extracted.  In this sponsored episode with the Center for Cultural Innovation and its AmbitioUS initiative, which commissioned a report by the Urban Institute, local leaders share models from Atlanta and New Orleans that bring financial freed...
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Takeaways From A Tumultuous Year in Economic Justice

January 15, 2026 • 37 mins
After a year marked by the undermining of public resources, community development is adapting by finding ways to make progress more resilient.In this episode, Next City Senior Economic Justice Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello looks back at some of the biggest stories from a turbulent year on his beat and draws on what he heard during a national book tour for “The Banks We Deserve.”It’s not all bad news, as Abello ...
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