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  • "Housing is Health Care": The Impact of Supportive Housing on the Costs of Chronic Mental Illness

    This study examines how housing and in-home supports affect public spending on individuals with chronic mental illness in Maricopa County, Arizona.

  • The Myth of Safe-Yield

    This analysis shows that Arizona continues on a path of unsustainable groundwater use that threatens the health and welfare of our state. It is not too late for a course correction, but that will require that Arizonans face the truth and make bold choices.

  • 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.

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Recent News

New research from Arizona State University has found that it’s cheaper to build permanent, supportive housing for people who have chronic mental illness than it is to let them become homeless.

Since 2016, Jake Agron has led the Arizona Senate Research Department, which provides nonpartisan, objective research and policy analysis to the elected members of the chamber.

A new study done at Arizona State University has, for the first time, quantified the health-care cost of women in Arizona who experienced trauma as children, pegging the amount at $260 million for

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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.