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States in Recovery: Housing
The housing crisis that threw states into economic free fall is helping them climb back out. more
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Activists Aim to Bolster Rhode Island’s Homeless Bill of Rights
After passing the nation’s first Homeless Bill of Rights this year, Rhode Island activists are looking to defend its provisions and expand their campaign to other parts of the country. more
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Losing Your Home to a Small Tax Debt?
When a little old lady is thrown out of her home two weeks before Christmas because she didn’t pay a $496 sewage bill, people take notice. more
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Strategies to Improve the Housing Market
Pew is working to identify practical solutions to address problems in the housing market. On June 20, 2012, Pew held a conference led by Senior Advisor Sheila Bair to evaluate potential policy options. more
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Revitalizing The Housing Market: Lessons from Canada
This paper compares the housing and mortgage finance systems in the United States and Canada and whether there are lessons that could be learned from the recent mortgage and housing crisis. more
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Housing Wealth and Higher Education
This August 2011 report, Housing Wealth and Higher Education: Building a Foundation for Economic Mobility, assessed how changes in housing wealth during the recent boom and bust affected students’ higher education decisions.
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Does America Promote Mobility as Well as Other Nations?
This November 2011 fact sheet, Does America Promote Mobility As Well As Other Nations?, previewed selected key findings from a multi-country study of economic mobility.
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States Challenge Loss of Millions in Federal Housing Awards
SOCIAL POLICY BEAT: From Arizona to Rhode Island, more than a dozen states could lose millions of dollars a year in federal contracts to manage low-income housing programs. The move is supposed to save the federal government $100 million a year, but state jobs also are stake. more
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Florida Hopes Its Future Looks Like the Past
Florida is banking on an expected influx of retiring baby boomers to buy up the state's glut of empty housing and get an old formula for the state's fiscal health working again. more
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Neighborhoods and the Black-White Mobility Gap
This 2009 report found that growing up in a high-poverty neighborhood increases the risk of experiencing downward mobility and explains a sizable portion of the black-white downward mobility gap. more
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States Cope With Rising Homelessness
As many as 3.4 million Americans are likely to experience homelessness this year - a 35 percent increase since the recession started in December 2007 - and a majority will be families with children. The economic stimulus package includes $1.5 billion to address the problem, but officials say it's not enough to cover the cost of housing for millions of families in crisis.more
