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nextLI hosts local experts to discuss their new study that explores vacant sites and businesses across Long Island, proposes changes that can help generate economic growth and analyzes what can be done to improve the future of the region.

Rehabbing Long Island's empty storefronts

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Long Island leaders deeply involved in shaping public policy discussed the findings.

Watch: Analyzing Long Island's state-of-mind survey

This conversation with LI Millennials discusses how COVID-19 is changing how we look at the future and explores attitudes of the younger generations, including varied responses by income and race.

nextLI Survey: COVID-19 & Long Island's next generation

Join our panel of experts for an extensive discussion and interactive Q&A as they discuss the disparities of Long Island living based on race and how COVID-19 exacerbated the situation.

nextLI Survey: How COVID-19 exposed LI's racial inequities

Long Island's parents voiced opinions about the upcoming school year in a new nextLI survey. A panel of education and technology professionals discuss these concerns about the future of learning on Long Island.

nextLI Survey: Long Island's COVID-19 attitudes about school

We examine a recent survey on concerns Long Islanders have about the pandemic, their fears of a second wave and what this means for the future.

nextLI Survey: Long Island's COVID-19 Mood

On the second day after moving there, we came home and found "KKK [racial epithet] MOVE AWAY" spray-painted in white letters on the gray shingles of our home.

'We were one of two Black families on our street'

Minority Millennials and Assemblywoman Kimberly Jean-Pierre join forces to celebrate the power and voice of young people on Long Island.

Watch: The Voice of Young Long Island

EOC Suffolk, Erase Racism, NAACP and Urban League sponsored a town hall following Newsday's series "Long Island Divided."

Town Hall on housing divide

Hear from nextLI's focus group participants.

Focus Group: "It's in historically more impoverished neighborhoods that they're pushing minorities."

Hear from nextLI's focus group participants about racial steering on Long Island and segregation.

Focus Group: "You're steering somebody in the wrong direction and causing discrimination to take place."

Focus Group: "We are no longer the same Amityville School District."

Focus Group: "I live in a very, very, very Caucasian town."

Focus Group: "It doesn't really matter the ethnic makeup, I just want the best school possible for my kids."

Hear from nextLI's focus group participants about the role of diversity in Long Island's future.

Focus Group: "Little kids don't see color. That would be nice if big kids didn't see it either."

Three presenters shared their expertise and experiences navigating the development and housing landscape here, followed by questions from a receptive audience hungry for ways to fix the struggle to find homes on LI.

Millennial Leadership Coalition discussion on housing

Watch nextLI's segment on Conversations with Verdel Jones above. Season 5, Episode 2 "The Future of Suburbia" aired live on Strong Island Television from Paradise Studios in Massapequa.

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Newsday's nextLI team released the results of the project's inaugural survey of the next generation of Long Islanders at an event sponsored by the Long Island Association on May 10, 2019.