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Housing and Housing Finance

How Should Communities Target Scarce Rental Assistance Resources?

There’s no foolproof roadmap, but these three principles can help local leaders determine how to prioritize their scarce rental assistance resources.
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Crime and Justice

State Innovations through the Justice Reinvestment Initiative

Key to the Justice Reinvestment Initiative is a tailored approach reflecting each state’s challenges and strengths.
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Education and Training

Why Forgive Student Debt?

It is difficult to justify picking student loans as the most problematic form of debt.
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Job Market and Labor Force

The Pandemic Is Threatening Latino Entrepreneurship, but Local Leaders Can Help

Small businesses are a key path for building wealth and closing the racial wealth gap, but the pandemic is threatening Latino entrepreneurs.
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Housing and Housing Finance

22 Million Renters and Owners of Manufactured Homes Are Mostly Left Out of Pandemic Assistance

Occupants of manufactured homes work in industries and occupations that are most vulnerable to COVID-19.
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Health and Health Policy

What Types of Hospitals and Areas Received the First Round of High-Impact COVID-19 Funding?

A new analysis found that the first round of high-impact payments generally, but not always, correlated with the prevalence of COVID-19 rates.
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Housing and Housing Finance

Six Facts You Should Know about Current Mortgage Forbearances

More data can help policymakers better understand how to support homeowners during the pandemic.
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Neighborhoods, Cities, and Metros

How Transportation Planners Can Advance Racial Equity and Environmental Justice

Three ways that transportation agencies can more deeply involve environmental justice communities in transportation planning.
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Children

COVID-19’s Disproportionate Effects on Children of Color Will Challenge the Next Generation

Rapid and expansive cross-sector action could help narrow the racial and ethnic disparities among young people.
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Children

What Would It Take to Create the Child Welfare System Families Say They Need?

Families envision a system that provides support before they are in crisis, but doing so may require transforming how the system currently works.

COVID-19: Policies to Protect People and Communities

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COVID-19: Policies to Protect People and Communities

The Vulnerable, Vital 2020 Census

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The Vulnerable, Vital 2020 Census

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Structural Racism in America

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Structural Racism in America

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