Josiah, Tricia and their son live in Tent City 3, a city-sanctioned tent community in Seattle. Around 70 homeless people call Tent City 3 home. In an ideal world, tent communities should not exist because homeless services should be able to get everyone into housing. But since we don’t live in a perfect world and there is a severe lack of housing and shelter beds, sanctioned tent cites provide invaluable […]
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Christie Munson Muller | Red Walker
June 2018 “Would you like some water?” I was a bit hesitant to approach her. She smiled and took the bottled water I’d bought at the gas station across the street. The sides of her face crinkled upward around the edges of her black sunglasses. I was surprised she smiled at all. Her black sleeveless tank top was stained with sweat. Her wrinkled, but pretty, flowered skirt flapped in the […]
Bruce J. Katz | Envisioning the new localism
City and county managers hold increasingly more responsibility for solving the problems facing localities across the country than many might realize. After decades of demographic, economic, and social change, the location and nature of power is shifting. Power is drifting downward from the nation-state to metropolitan areas; horizontally from governments to networks of public, private, and civic actors; and globally along circuits of capital, trade, and innovation. This power shift […]
Karl Widerquist | My own private basic income
I have a private basic income – a small, regular cash income without means test or work requirement. It’s probably large enough to meet my basic needs. And I got it thanks to privilege, nepotism, and two big lucky breaks. My first big lucky break happened in 2009 when Georgetown University hired me as a philosophy professor on their campus in Qatar. Georgetown-Qatar, which is funded entirely by the Qatar […]
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