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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.
Four Ways Technology Is Addressing the Housing Affordability Crisis Brian Brooks recently outlined how the tech sector is addressing the housing sector’s supply and demand mismatch.Good News for the Next Economic Downturn: Home Equity Use Is Low The $29.1 trillion value of the US housing market is at a historic high, but mortgage debt held by homeowners is stable.See Where Earnings Are Growing and Unemployment Is Lowest through Customizable Data Visualization Urban's updated State Economic Monitor shows the trajectory of state labor markets as they collapsed and recovered from the Great Recession.Health Care Companies Join the Effort to End Homelessness. How Can They Maximize Investments? UnitedHealth is betting that investments to support housing stability will lead to a reduction in high-cost medical services.Kenya’s Optimistic Revenue Forecasts Are Causing Problems, but Better Tools Can Help Kenya’s National Treasury has a track record of significantly overestimating revenues in the national budget.Understanding the Link between Residents’ and Cities’ Financial Health Urban researchers recently evaluated the cost to cities of residents’ unpaid public utility bills, unpaid property taxes, and evictions.
