Based on extensive review of local planning documents, state reports, and press coverage over the past 100 years, this report finds widespread use of zoning as a tool of social exclusion.
The year’s Report Card finds continued housing production challenges and that housing cost burdens have been increasing for most renter households. The report also features a special topic analysis of community land trusts (CLTs).
Newly released data from the Survey of Consumer Finances provide a picture of wealth coming out of the pandemic, revealing some surprising, largely positive, trends. Unfortunately, huge wealth inequality remains.
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Earlier this year, the Census Bureau announced the first large overhaul of their race and ethnicity questions in almost 50 years.
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Traditional reporting of census data may be contributing to misleading findings about actual demographic change.
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Opioid deaths set record highs in 2022, with Black deaths increasing by a staggering 42 percent between 2021 and 2022.
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