I wrote this paper for an assignment in Poli 204-01. In this class we spent the module tracking a city, and I chose to track Evanston, Illinois. This paper focused on the recent mayoral election that took place in Evanston, and the importance of the…
As of late 2019, almost 80,000 New Yorkers were homeless. That number has likely increased since then due to the devastating economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Since March 2020, tens of thousands of New Yorkers living on the streets or in…
In the spring of 2020, New York City was the epicenter of Covid-19 in the United States. There was one week in mid-April when 700 people in New York City died of Covid-19 every single day. Local and state governments scrambled to mitigate this dire…
An article for U.S. City and Metro Politics, Module 4 2021, discussing an urban housing crisis in New York City and the effect that the COVID-crisis has had on it.
This paper serves as an overview of commission style city government in Portland, Oregon, with a focus on its use within a larger city and during the COVID-19 pandemic.