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How Would Doubling the Pell Grant Expand Aid Eligibility? Doubling the maximum Pell grant award would substantially expand access to college funding, providing a large increase in grant funding for current recipients and increasing the number of eligible students.Benefit Cliffs Underscore the Need for a Stable, Accessible Social Safety Net Unpredictable benefit cliffs resulting from interactions between earnings, benefits, and taxes create challenges for parents trying to support their families.How Two-Generation Programs Can Advance Housing Stability Because children who grow up living in poverty are less likely to succeed economically as adults, cycles of poverty and housing instability can span generations. Two-generation programs can disrupt those cycles.California’s New Zoning Law Eases Building Restrictions but Depends on the Financing Industry to Play its Part Lifting legal roadblocks alone will not guarantee an influx of additional or affordable housing. Homeowners and small developers need access to the financing necessary to build new infill units.Is Maternal Telehealth Improving or Undermining Health Care Access and Equity? It’s Time to Ask Birthing People. Centering birthing people’s preferences—particularly voices from communities of color—will be critical to ensuring telehealth improves outcomes and doesn’t widen inequities.10 Blog Posts That Elevated the Debate in 2021 As the national dialogue shifted from relief toward pandemic recovery this year, Urban researchers analyzed what it would take to bolster resilience, center equity, and ensure we’re better prepared for future crises.
