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Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros

A New Tool Can Help Assess Opportunity Zone Investments’ Social Impacts

Opportunity Zone regulations allow a broad range of uses and do not require investments to benefit residents.
Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros

Three Tips for Planning Community Events to Prepare for the 2020 Census

The census has wide-reaching implications for the allocation of resources and our knowledge of America’s communities.
Adolescents and Youth

Confidence and Empowerment Are Key to Safe Sex

An innovative sex education program may be changing teens’ beliefs about healthy relationships.
Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros

Ten Blog Posts That Elevated the Debate in 2019

Urban researchers illuminated how new policy proposals would affect Americans’ ability to succeed and find stability.
Housing and Housing Finance

How 2020 Candidates Plan to Increase Nationwide Housing Supply

New housing construction is failing to meet the needs of 80 million millennials entering their prime homebuying years.
Job Market and Labor Force

Kentucky Addresses a Key Weakness in Many Prison Apprenticeship Programs

Job seekers recently released from prison face challenges that make landing a job extremely difficult.
Research Methods and Data Analytics

Using Data Walks to Spur Community Conversations around the Realities of Food Insecurity

Last summer, Urban researchers traveled to six communities across the US to host community conversations on disrupting food insecurity.
Housing and Housing Finance

Three Reasons We Still Build Like It’s 1900

Site-built home construction is more common, but less efficient and costlier than off-site construction.
Education and Training

Why We Need to Reach Young People Who Are Disconnected from School and Work

Young Americans ages 16 to 24 spend a significant portion of their time disconnected from work and school.
Job Market and Labor Force

Innovative Analytics Could Inform Efforts to Help Workers with Disabilities Stay Employed

A new tool could provide the Social Security Administration a better picture of a person’s functional abilities.

The Vulnerable, Vital 2020 Census

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The Vulnerable, Vital 2020 Census

The decennial Census will gather the most complete picture of America of the past 10 years, but its accuracy is in jeopardy.

Behind the Numbers at the Urban Institute

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Behind the Numbers at the Urban Institute

Structural Racism in America

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Structural Racism in America

Public policies, institutional practices, and cultural narratives perpetuate our country's racial inequalities. 

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