To protect tenants from unreasonable and excessive rents, to protect tenants from involuntary displacement, to keep rent within the City at a moderate level and ensure a just and reasonable return to landlords this ordinance: establishes maximum allowable rents; stipulates the conditions under which a tenant may be evicted (just cause eviction standards); stipulates maintenance standards of rental units. This ordinance further requires landlords to register rental units, provide tenants with notification that the rental unit is subject to the provisions of this ordinance, and pay interest on tenant's security deposit.

This chart demonstrates trends in income and housing costs over time. It allows users to specify demographic groups of interest and illustrates that, while wages have risen generally over the past half century, housing costs have outpaced this growth and now account for a greater proportion of workers' income than before. By allowing users to specify demographic and job sector parameters of interest, this chart demonstrates the way in which housing costs have risen at a disproportionately high rate for some racial groups as compared to others and how job sectors interact with that trend.

For more than five years, Michigan has had the highest unemployment rate in the Midwest. Despite this, Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) system compares very poorly with other Midwestern states in helping jobless workers as they look for work; this is due partly to its failure to update its maximum benefit and other aspects of its UI system, and partly to the passing of laws that directly weaken UI’s effectiveness. This report outlines the weaknesses of Michigan's UI system and provides recommendations for it to improve.

For more than five years, Michigan has had the highest unemployment rate in the Midwest. Despite this, Michigan’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) system compares very poorly with other Midwestern states in helping jobless workers as they look for work; this is due partly to its failure to update its maximum benefit and other aspects of its UI system, and partly to the passing of laws that directly weaken UI’s effectiveness. This report outlines the weaknesses of Michigan's UI system and provides recommendations for it to improve.

Organizers in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and North Carolina conducted interviews with over 900 Latinx immigrants (including nearly 400 undocumented community members) about the important issues facing immigrant communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. This infographic features snippets of the stories shared; common themes include financial hardship and illness, compounded by a lack of government support.

Economic insecurity is the root of many of the problems women and girls face in Rhode Island. Federal and state governments can help promote women’s economic security by implementing policies that promote equality and adequate earnings in the workplace and investing in programs that help families make ends meet. This report reviews the status of subsidized childcare and provides information about two professions where women comprise the majority of the workforce: childcare and caregiving. This report also looks at the state investment in Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP), RI Works cash assistance and health insurance. The report finds that there have been some progress in strengthening these programs, but much more to be done. The path to women’s economic security requires policies that promote equality and adequate earnings in the workplace and investments in programs that help families.

The Commission on Community Action & Economic Opportunity is composed of leaders who work at the local and regional levels throughout Michigan to promote economic opportunity. Through their Forums across the state, they hear directly from people struggling to avoid or recover from financial and personal obstacles. In their analysis of Forum testimony, this report focuses on how many communities have designed specialized local initiatives to address critical intervention points–crisis times when individuals are in acute danger of falling into poverty, or conversely when people are particularly motivated to make crucial changes to help themselves. Moreover, this report outlines and provides recommendations to programs that promote economic opportunity in Michigan.

This report highlights both quantitative and qualitative data from older women in Rhode Island. Going beyond the numbers to complete the portrait, the report intermingles qualitative information gathered from conversations with older women, revealing how they see their situation, their needs, their concerns, how they feel about their future, and their hopes for the next generation. The conversations took place during four focus groups: one with residents of an elderly housing complex, one with older and near-old women with a background of community/political activism, one with a group of older women from a large senior center, and one with residents of a retirement community that includes both independent and assisted living programs. In addition, three women in their 90’s were interviewed separately. The report details the current state of demographics, economic security, health status, health care access, community engagement, and safety and security of older women in Rhode Island.

The Rhode Island Women’s Well-Being Index provides a comprehensive, composite measure of how women are faring, broken down by city/town and county where data is available. The data and indicators used are a compilation of each dimension's policy briefs and show the latest statewide data for each dimension and rank cities/towns or counties. Included in this data are indicators of economic security, employment, health, personal safety, and political empowerment. Taken together, this data leads to policy recommendations for each of the preceding data categories that work to alleviate the major impediments or issues facing Rhode Island women. Some policy recommendations include election reform, domestic violence legislation, as well as health care reform, among other policy recommendations.

Rent control and just-cause eviction policies are essential to stabilizing communities, and protecting low-income and working-class people from unaffordable rents, poor housing conditions, and no-cause evictions. The goal of this report is to investigate and challenge common arguments against rent control and just-cause evictions, particularly the misinformation that threatens the implementation of these policies. This report studies cases in Berkeley, Santa Monica, and Richmond to assess the effects of policy implementation.