The pandemic has exacerbated the nation’s homelessness and affordable housing crises. By accounting for neighborhood risk factors, the Urban Institute’s Emergency Rental Assistance Priority Index can help local leaders equitably allocate emergency funds to help keep the most at-risk renters in their homes.
In June, nearly 38 percent of small businesses in the US reported negative effects from COVID-19. Among Latino-owned businesses, the rate was 83 percent. Solutions to support Latino entrepreneurs may lie at the local level.
Join the solutions conversation 12:00–12:30 p.m. (EDT) today as Tax Policy Center senior fellow Howard Gleckman talks with former Internal Revenue Service commissioner Charles O. Rossotti about the agency’s challenges during the pandemic and its ability to increase federal revenues by modernizing tax administration and compliance. Register here.
Facing the nation’s economic fallout, borrowers with all kinds of debt need solutions. But student debt is neither the most common kind of debt nor the kind likely to be held by the most vulnerable borrowers.
The pandemic and its economic consequences are disproportionately affecting immigrant communities. Barriers such as eligibility rules and lack of language access put relief programs out of reach for many immigrant families, resulting in unmet basic needs like access to cash, food, and housing.
