Yonah Freemark, Riordan Frost, Carlos Martín, Jorge Morales-Burnett, Francisco Montes
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January 20, 2023
The 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) is the largest single investment in the United States' public works in decades. Over the next five years, it will fund…
When President Biden first proposed his Build Back Better legislation, it included $300 billion in housing investments. While that legislative package never passed, portions…
As winter approaches in the United States, many households are preparing for lower temperatures—and now, higher energy prices driven by the increased price of natural gas.…
With national population growth at a record low, domestic migration was the key component of population change on the state and local levels in 2021. That was one of the main…
While the share of Americans moving each year has been falling for several decades, the start of the pandemic seemed to upend that trend. Media stories and blogs painted a…
One year before the pandemic began, almost one-fifth of households in the United States did not have high-speed internet service. This digital divide put many households in a…
While there is not yet national data on homelessness during the pandemic, recently released data show that the number of people experiencing homelessness in the United States…
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic began, homelessness was increasing across the country. As of January 2019, 568,000 people were experiencing homelessness, an increase of…
As people spend more time at home during the quarantines and shutdowns related to the COVID-19 pandemic, electricity use has partially shifted from the commercial and…
The COVID-19 pandemic began at a time when many Americans were already struggling to make ends meet, with an affordability crisis leaving many burdened by the rising costs of…