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The Community Foundation of Jackson Hole's Housing Solutions Initiative brings together cross-sector partners to address local housing affordability and accessibility using the Urban Institute’s Policy and Systems Change Compass. This collaboration offers early lessons for other communities looking to develop a similar collective to address local challenges’ root causes.
Older adults are the fastest-growing age group among people experiencing homelessness. Without intervention, this trend could lead to a public health crisis.
Almost half of US homes are vulnerable to climate disasters. One organization demonstrates how to improve housing quality, address environmental hazard risks, and expand economic opportunity.
To explore what junk fees are, how they affect overall monthly costs, and what the implications are for policy and practice, the Urban Institute and the Community Economic Defense Project analyzed a small number of randomly selected rental ledgers from three housing providers in Denver, Colorado.
Addressing the housing crisis will require leveraging the federal government’s many tools, including the tax code, the largest source of government investment in housing. Lawmakers have several opportunities to do so in the upcoming tax package.
Today’s housing crisis and the resulting instability threatens the well-being of millions of children across the country.