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DC business leaders praise the District’s innovative, family-friendly child care policies and offer recommendations for how the child care and business sectors can overcome persistent affordability challenges.
New growth in Detroit and Southeast Michigan also yields new housing challenges Detroit will return to growth for the first time in decades, but this growth presents new housing challenges.These four trends in rental housing have big implications for the growing affordable housing crisis The rental housing landscape is rapidly changing. Meanwhile, the pace of constructing new rental housing supply can't meet growing demand.Outside research organizations can’t replace CBO’s budget team Eliminating the Budget Analysis Division at the Congressional Budget Office would harm fiscal policymaking.A generation is stuck in starter homes, but they’re gaining traction The number of first-time homebuyers remains strong, while the number of repeat homebuyers lags well below its historical average.If the Senate repeal-and-replace health care bill goes forward, it would cut Medicaid just as more elderly Americans need long-term services and support Baby boomers will start reaching their mid-eighties around 2030, when proposed cuts to Medicaid would take effect.How an affordable housing developer improved Austin’s health outcomes Austin's Foundation Communities launched free, on-site health programming with the help of a variety of partner health organizations.