Smart Cities Dive

Twelve districts contributed just 1.1% of the city’s new affordable housing in the past five years, the city says. They’re now prioritized for faster permitting.

Chicago, Denver and New York City join multistate lawsuits challenging the agency’s move to end greenhouse gas emissions standards and failure to enforce requirements on existing gas-fired plants.

More than 600 guests watched the prototype vessel rise 30 feet above Narragansett Bay off Rhode Island.

Bills in the U.S. House and Senate would restrict law enforcement’s use of automated license plate readers and withhold federal funds from communities that use the technology.

The record-breaking amount, which comes from sales taxes on high-value homes, will be used to build and preserve affordable housing.

The Staten Island judge voided the city’s 17,000 mailed notices to homeowners. The city is expected to challenge the decision, Politico reported.

The ruling clears the way for more than $200 million in funding for SWAT teams, bomb squads and other local preparedness efforts.

While transit funding remains uncertain, transit agency officials cite fare evasion, disruptive riders, cybersecurity and terrorism as potential threats to riders.

“We've taken the Trump administration to court five times … we’ve won five times,” said New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill during an event marking the start of tunneling for the embattled project.

Smaller communities and rural towns are "especially vulnerable” to the public transit and passenger rail cuts, according to the American Public Transportation Association.

“The industry’s economic footprint extends well beyond the firms that assemble transit buses,” according to an Oxford Economics report.

The Water Resources Development Act of 2026 targets flood protection, ports, waterways and water supply while giving communities more tools to work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

“The critical step here is to make sure that the workforce will be prepared,” the Monterey Bay Economic Partnership's CEO says.

Cities will maintain control over where the affordable housing type may be located within their jurisdictions.

A national railroad infrastructure bank could bring federal, state and private-sector interests together to build and operate HSR corridors, a Commuter Rail Coalition board member writes.

Mid-America Apartments and JBG Smith agreed to financial penalties and restrictions to resolve allegations they used the technology to inflate rents and share confidential housing data. 

Brightline’s passenger rail projects in Florida and California haven’t made required equity and bond payments. Can they continue without new financing?

More than 40% say their departments are not prepared to implement AI, Euna Solutions found.

S&P Global analysts see a “simmering risk” from high electricity and water costs but momentum in affordable housing and sustainable debt.

The $5.5 billion, 14-mile rail line will reach historically underserved communities in Brooklyn and Queens.