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This election year, ’s incoming mayor and council will need to understand the effects of market trends if they want to solidify and expand the DC region’s economy. Explore what the show in this new Urban Wire article.

Three Things DC’s New Mayor and Council Need to Know About the Job Market How the District can mitigate the effects of remote work on the local economy and a strapped job market.

Geographic disparities have long shaped opportunity, well-being, and mobility. Federal place-based programs help address them—but funding decisions determine who benefits.

In a new tool from the Urban Institute, researchers break down spending on 13 major recurring federal place-based programs from 2010 to 2024. Understanding how federal commitments for place-based programs have shifted over time can help policymakers, practitioners, and leaders assess whether current investments align with their community’s needs.

Explore the findings. https://urbn.is/3QaUi1n

Urban Institute has partnered with for over a decade to advance evidence-based to chronic homelessness. Recent evaluation of the All In Mile High initiative found a 98% reduction in large encampments. Ongoing work—from supportive housing to alternative crisis response—shows promising gains in stability and reduced strain on public systems. It’s a powerful example of how sustained collaboration and data-driven strategies can drive lasting systems change.

Learn more about how Urban’s researchers partner with state and local leaders to provide the evidence, tools, and support they need to improve lives and strengthen communities.

Partnering with Denver to End Chronic Homelessness For more than a decade, Urban Institute has served as a trusted partner to the City and County of Denver, helping city and state leaders design, test, and sc…

Join the Urban Institute’s Upward Mobility Initiative on 6/9 @ 1 p.m. ET for a virtual workshop focused on how local leaders can use data to better understand conditions, identify strategic priorities, and advance upward mobility from .

Participants will hear directly from local leaders who are using the Upward Mobility Framework, Mobility Metrics, and local data sources to shape planning, align stakeholders, prioritize investments, and monitor progress.

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Using Data to Drive Upward Mobility: Practical Lessons from Communities Join the Urban Institute’s Upward Mobility Initiative for a virtual workshop focused on how local leaders can use data to better understand community conditions, identify strategic priorities, and advance upward mobility from poverty.

Like many around the US, has made real progress on public safety in recent years, including having a coordinated multiagency response approach. This Urban Wire article outlines three things the incoming mayor and council need to know that could help improve in the District.

Three Things DC's New Mayor and Council Need to Know About Community Safety How the District can sustain and build on its public safety gains in a fiscally constrained environment.

Using visualization to communicate budget information can democratize public safety budget data, making it more possible for the public to shape those decisions.

Join the Urban Institute on 6/8 @ 3 p.m. ET for a virtual event to hear from Community Information Now (CI:Now), ACT 4 SA in San Antonio and the Polis Center in Indianapolis about their work to create online budget visualization tools to inform police budget discussions in local and ground future community conversations about public safety resources in facts and data. Urban researchers will also share key lessons and guidance for others interested in creating similar tools.

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Democratizing Public Safety Budget Data Following historic mass uprisings against police violence in communities of color in summer 2020, local governments across the country engaged in unprecedent…

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Join the Urban Institute on 5/29 @ 1 p.m. ET for a virtual on how state and local governments can help enable economic mobility and -building opportunities for their workers.

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How State and Local Governments Can Help Build Employee Wealth Public employers are thinking creatively about how to enable the economic mobility of their workers. Income will always remain central, but employers are inc…

Many candidates in ’s upcoming election are focused on increasing supply—but solving challenges will require the incoming mayor and city council to be creative. This Urban Wire article outlines three evidence-based strategies to consider.

Three Things DC’s New Mayor and Council Need to Know About Affordable Housing This election year, the incoming mayor and city council will face a serious challenge: improving housing affordability in DC.

When the USDA paused its annual survey, a critical data source for researchers, advocates and charitable food organizations looking to target assistance was at risk. Urban Institute stepped in to help fill the gap.

With support from Feeding America and the Walmart Foundation, Urban is expanding its nationally representative Well-Being and Basic Needs Survey, launching new and analyses, and convening the Food Security Data Collaborative to ensure continued access to trusted, actionable on food insecurity when it’s needed most.

Learn more about how Urban works in real time to help solve the most pressing issues.

Filling the Gap in Federal Food Insecurity Data When the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) canceled its annual food security survey, Urban stepped in to help fill the gap.Researchers and advocates have d…

To help state and federal policymakers understand the impacts of investments in mental health, Urban experts examine how coverage changed in Pennsylvania schools after they received investment and how those effects differed by schools’ poverty levels.

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How Can States Target Investments in Student Mental Health? Pennsylvania Offers Insights After the state’s investment, hundreds of Pennsylvania schools increased mental health coverage, and ratios of students to mental health staff dropped.