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Nationwide, costs for groceries, housing, child care, and health care are rising faster than paychecks, forcing households into impossible choices between covering today’s needs or planning for tomorrow. Communities are sounding the alarm, and local leaders are being asked to solve problems with far fewer resources. 
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Urban helps them bridge that gap.


For decades, Urban has been at the forefront of understanding America’s affordability challenges—examining the drivers of rising housing costs, documenting barriers to affordable child care, analyzing health care burdens on families, and identifying policy solutions that help communities regain stability. This deep expertise is now complemented by tools that give leaders clearer, more actionable insights into the pressures families face every day.


Our newly launched American Affordability Tracker brings real-time clarity to identify where costs are rising fastest and which communities are experiencing the greatest strain. It builds on Urban’s long-standing tools like the interactive Debt in America map, which pinpoints where medical, student, auto, and collections debt are trapping households, and the Financial Health and Wealth Dashboard, which looks at local frameworks of wealth, showing levels of emergency savings, assets, and neighborhoods' overall financial health. Together, these resources give leaders a complete picture of the affordability crisis, show them where intervention is most urgently needed, and offer strategies for tackling it.


But information alone isn't enough. Across the country, in communities like yours, Urban’s technical assistance teams work directly with state and local partners to design, test, and scale policies that lower costs, strengthen household stability, and expand pathways to upward mobility.


Demand for this support is growing. Meeting it requires flexible funding that allows us to show up quickly, stay engaged, and deliver impact where it’s needed most. 
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Your support makes that possible.  It ensures Urban can act when communities call—turning evidence into practical solutions that help people build more secure, hopeful futures.

Will you support Urban today? Together, we can turn insight into action and help every community move toward greater opportunity.


All best,


Erin Kundolf

Chief Business Development Officer

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