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The US added more multifamily housing between 2021 and 2025 than any other time in the past 37 years, with downtown Brooklyn and Nashville leading the way.
Squeaky-clean loans lead to near-zero borrower defaults—and that is not a good thing Laurie Goodman: It’s time to lend again to borrowers with less-than-perfect credit.Why does the Urban Institute belong at SXSW? Urban’s Justice Policy Center is hoping to lead a panel discussion on “Reducing Violent Police-Citizen Interactions” at the next SXSW.To ease access to mortgages, we must reform mortgage servicing now The challenges—and potential opportunities—presented by reforming servicing are simply too crucial to kick down the road.What do we really know about jobs? The most universal—and perhaps the most potentially powerful —intervention in people’s lives is their job.Mentoring may help young men of color achieve academic success What interventions are most effective at improving the academic success of young men of color?Preserving affordable housing: what works Preserving existing affordable housing prevents displacement, is generally cheaper than building new housing, and conforms to existing land-use patterns.
