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Federal cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program could cause some DC-area families to lose an average of $187 in monthly benefits.
Housing and Human Services Programs Aren’t Meeting Rural Renters’ Needs Breaking down housing and service provision barriers can help stabilize rural families and ensure they aren’t left behind.Federal Support Could Help Reconnect Communities Divided by Highways—But More Funding Is Needed Outsize demand for federal funding of highway redesign or removal projects offers an opportunity for policymakers to reconnect communities, predominately inhabited by people of color and households with low incomes, disrupted by previous projects.Community Partnerships and Evaluations Are Key to Successful Federal Race and Ethnicity Data Collection Efforts Engaging with communities historically obscured by federal race and ethnicity data can ensure new data collection standards capture a more inclusive, accurate picture of diverse racial identities.Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s New Pricing Is Not Punishing Those with Better Credit: Follow the Numbers Three figures underscore how Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac’s pricing changes are getting conflated.How Public Housing Authorities Can Help Young People Who Have Aged Out of Foster Care Achieve Stability and Self-Sufficiency A few changes to the ways public housing authorities and Family Self-Sufficiency programs work can make them more effective.No, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Aren’t Penalizing People with Good Credit to Help People with Bad Credit Criticism over the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s recent pricing changes conflates two separate, largely unrelated moves on pricing.