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Terri Harris, a formerly homeless woman who received a lease for a one-bedroom in a low-rise complex, prepares a meal at the new home she shares with her daughter Blesit in Houston on May 12, 2022. Harris did not score high enough on a “vulnerability index” to be eligible for permanent housing, but she did qualify for what is called rapid rehousing, which gave her one year of rent – one year of grace – to get back on her feet. (Christopher Lee/The New York Times)

June 14, 2022 at 2:26 pm

How Houston moved 25,000 people from the streets into homes of their own VIEW

The number of people deemed homeless in the Houston region has been cut 63% since 2011, according to the latest numbers. No other city has...

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December 26, 2021 at 11:59 am

Wayne Thiebaud, Playful Painter of the Everyday, Dies at 101

Wayne Thiebaud, the California-based painter whose lush, dreamy landscapes and luminous pictures of hot dogs, deli counters, marching band majorettes and other charmed relics of...

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December 21, 2017 at 6:36 pm

Can Jakarta save itself from sinking in 10 years? VIEW

Countless human-made troubles in the Indonesian capital pose an imminent threat to the city’s survival, a threat intensified by climate change.

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A view of Shenzhen, China, from the KK100 tower, June 21, 2016. Shenzhen was transformed in a few decades from a small fishing village into a city of millions.
In the Pearl River Delta, breakneck development is colliding with the effects of climate change. (Josh Haner/The New York Times)

April 8, 2017 at 3:27 pm

Rising waters imperil a world of progress in southern China delta

The rising South China Sea and the overstressed Pearl River network lie about 3 feet or so below much of this new multitrillion-dollar development —...

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Where the ground was once flat, undulating buildings bear witness to the subsidence which has become over time a major problem in Mexico City, May 27, 2016. This megalopolis built on a lakebed is sinking at different rates from place to place, a problem that is accelerating due to climate change and the water needs of its population. (Josh Haner/The New York Times)

February 18, 2017 at 5:36 pm

Mexico City is a parched and sinking capital

When Mexico City’s Grand Canal was completed, at the end of the 1800s, it promised to solve the flooding and sewage problems that had plagued...

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July 27, 2013 at 6:12 am

Newark envisions revival in an orange boardwalk

NEWARK, N.J. — Perhaps few places in America represent the urban trauma of the 1960s more than this city. Deindustrialization, corruption, suburban flight and calamitous...

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February 20, 2011 at 8:00 am

Auschwitz to shift from memorializing to teaching

Those in charge of passing along the legacy of Auschwitz, a notorious Nazi death camp, insist it needs an update. Its story needs to be...