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  • State of Our State 2020 Housing at a Crossroads

    Local and national housing experts explore solutions to Arizona’s affordable housing challenges and discuss strategies to increase housing security during the pandemic. Watch the State of Our State event now.

  • Perceptions of the Pandemic and its Effects

    The ASU Morrison Institute-Arizona Republic COVID-19 Poll is a census-balanced poll of Arizonans, regardless of their voter registration status. Morrison Institute fielded this poll in order to elevate the perspectives of all Arizonans to inform policy discourse and decision making.

  • One Crisis Away

    Rethinking Housing Stability for Arizonans on the Margin: COVID-19 has disrupted almost every facet of American life, but the pandemic’s economic impact has been especially challenging for some of Arizona’s renters. More Arizonans are one crisis away from severe financial hardship and potential eviction than just Arizonans living in poverty.

  • Resource Guide: Child and Family Well-being During COVID-19

    An Arizona-specific resource guide to help community members reach out to parents, caregivers, and children to understand how they're doing and what they might need during these tough times.

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For nearly 40 years, Morrison Institute for Public Policy has served as Arizona's premier public policy research organization.

Our dedicated team of professional researchers excels at examining trends, policies and practices. 

We've worked with government agencies and nonprofits of all sizes and missions, including direct service organizations and foundations. Our team has been to every corner of Arizona. Over the years, we've learned that investing in research up front saves time, money and headaches later.

We want to help our partners determine what's happening, what's working elsewhere, what people think, and what may be improved. We see our work as a nonpartisan public service.

We conduct interviews, gather and analyze datasets, put polls into the field, assemble focus groups, and bring people together. Plus, we have all of the resources of the nation's most innovative research university at our fingertips. 

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Highlights

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Kyl Center for Water Policy

The Kyl Center for Water Policy at Morrison Institute seeks to generate policy proposals for public evaluation and subsequent consideration for possible action or adoption.

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Latino Public Policy Center

The Latino Center uses various venues, formats and publications to improve Arizona's understanding of Latino-related opportunities and challenges, and how resulting public policy decisions will affect Arizona's future for all.

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Legislative Academy

The Arizona Legislative Academy at Arizona State University is the first university-based program in the country to address a perennial challenge: building capacity in the state legislature.