Mr. Erlich is one of the authors of a book addressing the history of racial exclusion in the building trades. He notes that the original Boston Residents Jobs Policy in […]
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Back to news homeHome Buyers Who Went All In on Evergrande Now Want Out
China is trying to cool its costly and dangerously debt-ridden housing market, where high prices and go-go levels of borrowing and spending are increasingly seen as a national threat.But as […]
How an 11-Foot-Tall 3-D Printer Is Helping to Create a Community
Square FeetThree-dimensional printing can create nearly any object. A partnership in Mexico is putting that theory to the test, building a village for residents living in poverty.Pedro GarcÃa Hernández, 48, […]
China Pledges to Stop Building Coal Plants Abroad: Explained
Xi Jinping, China’s top leader, said on Tuesday that his country would stop building coal-burning power plants overseas, a major shift by the world’s second-biggest economy to move away from […]
Beyond Evergrande’s Troubles, a Slowing Chinese Economy
BEIJING — Global markets have watched anxiously as a huge and deeply indebted Chinese property company flirts with default, fearing that any collapse could ripple through the international financial system.China […]
Can a Green-Economy Boom Town Be Built to Last?
When the plant scaled back production in the 2000s and closed in 2015, around the time of white-collar job cuts, Normal felt the pinch. Suppliers decamped, and many workers left […]
California’s Plan to Make New Buildings Greener Will Also Raise Costs
But in other locations like San Bernardino, a far less affluent city east of Los Angeles, where the typical home sells for about $529,000, the cost of solar panels and […]
Nooses, Anger and No Answers: Inside the Uproar Over a Future Amazon Site
Representatives for Amazon and the other companies involved say they have done everything they can, delaying construction twice, adding security and cameras at the site and putting up $100,000 in […]
‘A Wild 15 Months’: Pandemic Spurs Conversion of Offices to Labs
The pandemic dealt a gut punch to landlords of office buildings. Aware that work can go on with employees logging in from home, businesses across the country shrank their spaces […]
Building Solar Farms May Not Build the Middle Class
‘Like a Moving Assembly Line’On an afternoon in mid-May, several laborers coming off their shift at Assembly Solar said they were grateful for the work, which they said paid $16 […]