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  • Building Arizona

    Arizonans are facing a growing problem: low- and middle-income rental housing has become increasingly unaffordable and scarce in one of the nation’s fastest-growing states. Rent increases have far outpaced inflation and wage growth. This surge in rental prices puts low- and middle-income renters at risk, and many Arizona renters have struggled to keep up. This report identifies and evaluates the availability and affordability challenges facing Arizona renters, analyzes the causes, and discusses potential policy responses.

  • Ten Tenets of Water Equity

    Water is the foundation of public health, economic opportunity, unique natural areas and quality of life in any community. Much attention has been paid to the sustainable management of water supplies, as well as the responsible investment in the infrastructure that supports the delivery of safe, clean water. In more recent years, issues regarding broad and fair access to safe, clean water in a community—water equity—have come into sharper focus.

  • Cost of Adverse Childhood Experiences in Arizona

    Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are traumatic events such as abuse, neglect, and household dysfunction that occur during childhood. For more than 20 years, researchers and public health officials have studied the impact of adversity on the growth and development of children and the chronic health conditions they develop as adults. This research brief puts a financial cost on the negative health outcomes for some Arizona women who were exposed to ACEs as children.

  • Family First Prevention Services Act

    This research brief describes how a recent federal law alters the way the federal government provides money to the states to run their child welfare systems. The changes required by the Family First Prevention Services Act are likely to have widespread ripple effects throughout the child welfare system and lead to some major changes in child welfare organizations’ daily operations.

  • 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.

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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.