This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. When disasters strike, the flood of images on TV and social media can have a powerful psychological impact on children – whether those children are physically in the line of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Testimony of Alliance CEO, Nan Roman, to the U.S. House of Representatives Financial Services Committee (Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance) at the Housing America: Addressing Challenges in Serving People…
Assistant Director Stephen Menendian presented the Institute’s recent groundbreaking research on the harmful effects of restrictive zoning in the San Francisco Bay Area in this panel organized by SPUR on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The nation’s affordable housing shortage affects millions of people with low wages, but for people with disabilities, finding quality housing they can afford is even harder. One in 4 adults in the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Extreme flooding has struck almost every corner of the country over the past year, from rural areas in Tennessee and California to the Michigan suburbs and the streets of Brooklyn, New York. Floods have always been by…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hello, and welcome to the inaugural episode of Unpacking Philanthropy. I’m Aaron Dorfman. Over the past 15 years while I’ve been lucky enough to lead the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy, I’ve…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Imagine that several state legislators decide that Yellowstone National Park is too big. Also imagine that, working with federal politicians, they change the law to downsize the park by a…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On one of the first days of our seventh grade sexual health unit in my small western Wisconsin suburb, we watched a speech by Pam Stenzel, one of the most…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The reserve fund the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) holds to cover losses—the Mutual Mortgage Insurance (MMI) Fund—is substantially overfunded (PDF), and some housing experts have called for cutting the monthly mortgage insurance premium (MIP)…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Receiving poor-quality service is frustrating enough. But what really hurts is feeling helpless about it. When you have no space to share your feedback, you feel like you’re invisible because…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. On his first day in office President Joe Biden started signing executive orders to reverse Trump administration policies. One sweeping directive calls for stronger action to protect public health and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As online schooling plays an increasingly large role in education, researchers say more work needs to be done to understand and address why some families have a harder time accessing…