by Miho Cuffee | Dec 2, 2025 | News
Housing affordability remains a critical challenge across the U.S., with nearly one in three households now considered cost burdened. Inflation-driven increases in construction material prices and other factors have slowed housing development, resulting in a severe...
by Miho Cuffee | Dec 2, 2025 | Insight
For millions of Americans, the pursuit of secure, affordable housing has become a bigger challenge than ever. Recent years have witnessed a steady uptick in rents and home prices, and it is not just people with low incomes who are shouldering the burden of these...
by Miho Cuffee | Sep 26, 2025 | News
Washington CORE recently sat down with Dr. Casey Dawkins, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Maryland, to examine the drivers of the U.S. housing shortage and the path forward. Drawing on decades of housing policy research, Dr. Dawkins...
by Miho Cuffee | Sep 26, 2025 | Insight
Amid surging rents, rising construction costs, and entrenched zoning barriers, the U.S. continues to grapple with a worsening affordable housing shortage. Policymakers and advocates are increasingly exploring prefabricated housing, zoning reform, and financial...
by Miho Cuffee | Sep 4, 2025 | Insight
Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere powering electric cars, smartphones, laptops, and even renewable energy grids. They are essential to the clean energy transition, storing power from wind and solar and making it available on demand. Yet their very success has...
