Media

A wide-range of national and issue-specific media outlets cover Menino Survey findings in the weeks and months following a report release. Coverage has included The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, NPR, AP, Bloomberg CityLab, Governing, Next City, and Route Fifty, among others. Below is a selection from recent findings:

• Smart Cities Dive: What mayors really think about the Inflation Reduction Act
• Kinder Institute for Urban Research: Mayors express uncertainty about inflation bill’s climate change efforts in national survey
• Bloomberg CityLab: What U.S. Mayors Are Really Worried About
• Governing: Mayors and the Need to Develop Community Esprit de Corps
• Voice of America: What US Mayors Are Most Worried About After the Pandemic
• USA Today: It’s OK not to be OK. Erasing stigma of mental illness is a big step toward healing.
• Axios: Mayors’ top concern: mental health
• MarketWatch: Death of the city? Most mayors aren’t worried
• Smart Cities Dive: Weighing pandemic aftermath, mayors most worried about resident mental health
• Business Insider: Mayors are more worried about your mental health than whether or not their cities are dead
• Route Fifty: How Mayors Are Thinking About Prioritizing Federal Aid
• The American Prospect: Remote Workers Punch Holes in City Revenues
• The Boston Globe: Federal COVID funds offer Boston Mayor Michelle Wu a big boost with her big plans
• Axios: Mayors feel powerless to reduce homelessness
• Smart Cities Dive: Most mayors feel they lack control over homelessness: survey
• Politico (Morning Money): Mayors Feel Hamstrung in Addressing Homelessness
• Vice: America Has Decided That Homeless People Aren’t People
• American City and County: Accountable yet powerless: Report highlights challenges mayors face in addressing homelessness
• Next City: Housing in Brief: Mayors Say They Don’t Have Tools to Deal With Homelessness
• Cities Today: US mayors seek better data to beat homelessness
• KALW Public Media: Addressing homelessness in America: What works and how can we replicate it?
• Invisible People: What Do America’s Mayors Think About Homelessness?
• Route Fifty: The Big Obstacles Mayors Face Addressing America’s Homelessness Crisis
• GCN: Mobile apps help community with annual homeless count
• Next City: Amid Calls to Defund the Police, Many Mayors Are Still Relying on Cops to Address Homelessness
• Bloomberg Cities: Cities make big bets in fight against homelessness
• Bloomberg Cities Network: 5 ways local leaders can use the Racial Wealth Equity Database
• Philanthropy News Digest: Majority of mayors worried about racial wealth gap, survey finds
• American City and County: Boston University report highlights mayoral perspectives on racial wealth gap
• Smart Cities Dive: Mayors concerned about racial wealth gap, but no consensus on solutions: survey
• Governing: Mayors Face a Reckoning With Racial Wealth Gaps
• MLK50: Memphis’ potential is about Black Memphians reaching theirs
• Yahoo Finance: Most mayors say housing is the biggest challenge in U.S. cities, survey finds
• American City & County: Report: Concern among mayors over housing costs dwarfs other issues
• Axios: Mayors want to fight climate change, but fear losing their jobs
• Smart Cities Dive: Nearly all US mayors worry about climate change’s local effects: report
• Yahoo News: Most U.S. mayors don’t want to ban gas stoves, leaf blowers over climate change impact, survey finds