Like most major American cities, Chicago and Washington, D.C., are struggling with a trio of real estate challenges: a housing shortage that has driven up rents, record rates of homelessness (in large ...

The Pew Charitable Trusts is committed to helping Philadelphians achieve economic security, advancement, and overall well-being. Public benefits are important but often underutilized resources that ...

State tax revenue volatility has increased in recent years, with significant fluctuations not only in total collections but also across major tax streams. From fiscal year 2019 to fiscal 2023, annual ...

Los Angeles and Houston could add thousands of low-cost housing units to their downtowns by converting vacant office buildings to “tiny apartments” with shared kitchens, bathrooms, and living rooms, ...

In 2019, The Pew Charitable Trusts worked with Belize and Costa Rica on updating nationally determined contributions (NDCs) to the Paris Agreement to include protections for coastal wetlands as nature ...

The people of Pabineau First Nation (PFN) have lived along the banks of the Nepisiguit River since time immemorial—as they say—in what is now the province of New Brunswick, Canada. And this year, PFN ...

This is one in a series of five articles examining key debates that will unfold in the nation’s statehouses in the year ahead. As states move from studying generative artificial intelligence to ...

This is one in a series of five articles examining key debates that will unfold in the nation’s statehouses in the year ahead. After two years of relative stability, 2025 marks an inflection point for ...

Manufactured housing—the modern version of a mobile home—is an important, but underused, form of low-cost housing. Today, about 18 million people live in these homes, and most own rather than rent.