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Automatic enrollment is the most effective way to ensure all families can benefit from the wealth-building opportunities that Trump accounts offer.
HUD’s English-Only Directive Could Hurt the Federal Housing Administration’s Mission and Financial Health Serving multilingual borrowers is good for consumers and the housing finance system. Amid federal changes, public and private mortgage industry participants can help fill language gaps.About Six Million Americans Have Fallen Behind on Student Loan Payments, a Return to Prepandemic Levels Two years after student loan payments have resumed, millions of Americans are once again behind on their student loans.Three Facts Communities Should Know about Unsheltered Homelessness and the Joint Transitional Housing/Rapid Re-Housing Model Over the past decade, the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness rose nearly 60 percent. New research sheds light on how TH/RRH could alleviate the problem.Evidence Shows Permanent Supportive Housing Helps People Exit Homelessness. A Proposed Funding Change Would Cut Those Programs. A proposed shift in federal funding away from permanent supportive housing solutions could push tens of thousands of people out of their housing program overnight.Cutting Federal Transit Funding Won’t Fix Budget Shortfalls. But It Would Make Transportation Less Affordable for Americans. A proposal to eliminate federal public transit funding would not only fail to address the existing funding gap but would also leave millions of Americans, particularly those in small rural communities, without transportation options.The Reauthorization of Federal Transportation Programs Offers Policymakers an Opportunity to Improve Effectiveness, Environmental Sustainability, and Access Federal policymakers should consider three strategies to guide deliberations around reauthorization and improvement of Americans’ quality of life.