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As data centers see a surge in demand because of generative AI, Henrico County, Virginia, shows how local governments can turn the economic gains of this new industry into sustainable funding for affordable housing.
A Broader Outreach Strategy Would Help 400,000 Needlessly Delinquent Mortgage Borrowers Approximately 400,000 homeowners who became delinquent after the pandemic began have forgone forbearance and become delinquent.The 2020 Census Deadline Was Just Extended, but so Far, Texas Has Failed to Ensure Its Latinx Residents Are Accurately Counted Latinx communities in Texas are at risk of losing political representation and economic opportunity because of an unprecedentedly large undercount.Proposition 15 Won't Worsen California’s Housing Crisis Proposition 15 might moderately increase housing supply, but because it affects so few properties, it can’t solve California’s housing crisis.Residential Segregation Is Declining. How Can We Continue to Increase Inclusion? Understanding and tracking both racial and income segregation over time at the city level is a first step toward driving policy solutions to dismantle an unjust past and present.Federal Disaster Policy Reforms—Including Flood Insurance Treatment—Should Center Racial and Economic Equity Stakeholders in the disaster field can prevent low-income people and residents of color from slipping through the cracks during recovery efforts.Disinvestment in Baltimore’s Black Neighborhoods Is Foreboding but Reversible New research finds that Baltimore’s disparities in neighborhood investment are alarming, and capital investments flow unevenly across the city.