Today, one in five American children are poor, and nearly two in five will be poor for at least one year before they turn 18. What else do we know about persistent childhood poverty? http://urbn.is/2eht5n7
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Today, one in five American children are poor, and nearly two in five will be poor for at least one year before they turn 18. What else do we know about persistent childhood poverty? http://urbn.is/2eht5n7
How would terminating the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness affect efforts to end homelessness? Here's what the evidence says.
We’ve heard candidates’ stances on several pocketbook issues—the minimum wage, child care costs, taxes—but neither Hillary Clinton nor Donald J. Trump have spoken much about wealth.
"The bottom line: we are not ready to house people safely and adequately in our rapidly aging rural communities."
Housing vouchers limit households to neighborhoods where landlords are willing to participate in the program-- and these neighborhoods are often not the ones that will lead to better outcomes for families.
#Detroit’s housing market is experiencing a slow and highly concentrated revival in small pockets of the city. But these meaningful improvements aren’t being shared with African American and Hispanic communities.
Latinos are a fast-growing portion of both the US population and the correctional population, but we don’t know how many Latinos are in prison, on probation, or arrested.
An estimated 6.8 million young people ages 10 to 17 struggle to have enough to eat: http://urbn.is/choices
Americans have been moving less since 1990. What does this mean for the mortgage market?
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62% of #Detroit residents have a subprime credit score, which can affect access to credit and interest rates. And information on credit reports can even influence employment and hiring, rental, and insurance decisions.
"Housing affordability is a long-term, systemic problem that has become a crisis, especially for America’s poorest families and individuals."
(h/t Washington Post) #2016analysis
Families of color will make up 43 percent of the nation’s population by 2030. But families of color have, on average, a much harder time getting a mortgage than white families.