Policymakers at every level of government are grappling with the rising costs of storms, floods, wildfires, and other natural disasters and how best to aid affected communities. As disasters have ...

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 ...

In this episode, we hear from Montana state lawmakers Daniel and Katie Zolnikov about the bipartisan legislation they championed to address rising concerns about access to housing. And Indigenous ...

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 ...

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.

Alcohol is the leading driver of substance use-related fatalities in America: Each year, frequent or excessive drinking causes approximately 178,000 deaths. 1 Excessive alcohol use is common in the ...

Even before the one-two punch of hurricanes Helene and Milton struck the Southeast this fall, FEMA’s disaster relief fund (DRF) was running low on funds. Recognizing that it did not have enough to ...

Earlier this year, the Chicago-based national nonprofit Healthy Schools Campaign published a report on how Medicaid—the public health insurance program for low-income people in the United States—can ...

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