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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.
Why Zika virus is sticking around—and what we can do about it Zika isn’t strictly a mosquito-borne virus; it can also spread from person to person via sexual contact—and an alarming number of women don’t know that.What will it take to fight zombie mortgages? The walking dead haunt the land of real estate finance.How NeighborWorks America’s programs help underserved borrowers get and keep their own homes If we want to maintain a healthy housing market, we need to find effective ways to help minority households become sustainable homeowners.Transforming housing, transforming lives? In No Simple Solutions: Transforming Public Housing in Chicago, Susan Popkin chronicles the effects of the largest-ever public housing redevelopment effort.#thisis2016: Why we need better data on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Representation matters—and that’s especially true in research.Five things the federal government did to help end homelessness (and three things it might not get to do) How would terminating the US Interagency Council on Homelessness affect efforts to end homelessness? Here's what the evidence says.