With few new starter or lower-cost homes being built in the U.S., communities throughout the nation could leverage manufactured homes (modern mobile homes) to help increase the housing supply. However ...

In 2021, Congress enacted the Digital Equity Act (DEA) as part of the massive Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). The DEA defines digital equity as “the condition in which individuals and ...

Stat: 2 million: The number of times people with mental health conditions in the United States are jailed annually. Story: In the United States, law enforcement officers and emergency room physicians ...

Research shows that homebuyers often struggle to obtain small mortgages—those for less than $150,000—even in metropolitan areas where low-cost homes are plentiful. To better understand the financing ...

The Pew Charitable Trusts has partnered with the Civic Science Fellows program to host its first fellow as part of the 2024-25 cohort. Lisa Maillard, a Ph.D. candidate in environmental policy and ...

Every state offers companies tax incentives, a mechanism by which states agree to forgo tax revenue in the hope that the companies’ activities will catalyze new economic activity. These incentives ...

A new study shows that from 2015 to 2019, the United States saw increases in the overall rate of suicide attempts and the rate of people experiencing suicidal thoughts, with sharper increases among ...

A barrage of natural disasters in California this year—from the nearly 430,000-acre Park fire and other wildfires, flooding from severe rainstorms known as atmospheric rivers, and extreme heat ...

The United Nations General Assembly’s first high-level meeting on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in 2016 was a pivotal moment, highlighting the scope and urgency of this public health crisis. The ...

The growing impacts of climate change—from near-term events such as hurricanes, floods, and wildfires, to longer-term risks, including higher temperatures, droughts, and sea-level rise—have wreaked ...