Co-living spaces such as rooming houses and residential hotels—known broadly as single-room occupancies, or SROs—used to be common in the United States, providing low-cost homes for millions of people ...

WASHINGTON—The Pew Charitable Trusts today applauded Montana Governor Greg Gianforte (R) for signing bipartisan legislation supporting the construction of wildlife crossings in the state, in a move ...

An estimated nationwide shortage of 4 to 7 million homes has pushed rents to all-time highs, with a record share of Americans spending more than 30% of their income on rent. Meanwhile, the median home ...

Conserving natural spaces conveys benefits far beyond the obvious gains to wildlife and their habitats. As scores of studies show, protecting and restoring lands and waters, particularly when done in ...

Since 2020, the U.S. has experienced an average of 23 disasters a year that caused at least $1 billion of destruction each, ...

Scientists forecast that the amount of plastic entering the ocean—approximately 11 million metric tons each year—could triple by 2040. To help find solutions, The Pew Charitable Trusts and Gerstner ...

After years of rapid expansion, growth in state rainy day funds slowed in fiscal year 2024. Although the median rainy day fund balance increased by 7% in fiscal 2024, that still marked a steep drop ...

Los Angeles and Houston could add thousands of low-cost housing units to their downtowns by converting vacant office buildings to “tiny apartments” with shared kitchens, bathrooms, and living rooms, ...

This is one in a series of five articles examining key debates that will unfold in the nation’s statehouses in the year ahead. Debates about how to approach public school funding are reaching a ...

This is one in a series of five articles examining key debates that will unfold in the nation’s statehouses in the year ahead. As states move from studying generative artificial intelligence to ...

This is one in a series of five articles examining key debates that will unfold in the nation’s statehouses in the year ahead. After two years of relative stability, 2025 marks an inflection point for ...

The United States has a shortage of 4 million to 7 million homes and, at the same time, an all-time-high office vacancy rate of 20%, meaning that more than a billion square feet of office space is ...