Faced with an affordable housing shortage, COVID-19 restrictions and wildfires, Oregon started funding a program to purchase hotels and motels to shelter the unhoused.
After more than a dozen people died in illegal basement apartments in New York in in September, from flash flooding, there’s been renewed attention on how to make those apartments safer in the face of climate change.
The agency has warned companies against using what it calls “illegal dark patterns” to trap consumers into subscriptions that are then hard to get out of.
The pharmacies of the future may focus more on health services and primary care. But decisions about where stores will close could be critical for underserved communities.