Key FindingsRental assistance increases housing stability and reduces homelessnessState policymakers should fund rental ...

The Trump Administration and Republican majorities in both houses of Congress are advancing a three-pronged policy agenda ...

Our communities are safer when each person has a stable place to call home. Policies that improve access to housing ...

Everyone needs and should have a place they can call home. Yet housing is unaffordable for more people than ever in the ...

As the name suggests, the Impoundment Control Act (ICA) helped reinforce Congress’s control over the executive branch’s ...

Rental assistance is a key policy intervention that state policymakers should add to their toolbox to address housing ...

Created in 1972, the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program provides monthly cash assistance to disabled or older people who have little income and few assets. Like the Old-Age, Survivors, ...

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) is a nonpartisan research and policy institute that pursues federal and state policies designed both to reduce poverty and inequality and to restore ...

Social Security faces a significant — though manageable — long-term funding shortfall, which policymakers should address primarily by increasing Social Security’s tax revenues.

Policymakers and the public should understand that the 2017 Trump tax law was skewed to the rich, was expensive and eroded the U.S. revenue base, and failed to deliver promised economic benefits. A ...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP — formerly the Food Stamp Program) is the cornerstone of the nation’s safety net and nutrition assistance programs. It currently provides ...

Housing Choice Vouchers sharply reduce homelessness and other hardships, lift more than a million people out of poverty, and give families an opportunity to move to safer, less poor neighborhoods. ...