The American Affordability Tracker
Advocacy/Public Policy
Americans are struggling to afford essentials like food, child care, and housing. To solve this affordability crisis, policymakers need clear, actionable data and policy solutions. They need to know how people in their communities are actually faring when it comes to resources, everyday costs, and financial distress.
This tracker from the Urban Institute monitors the most recent available data on earnings, housing, health care, child care, gas, groceries, and various types of loan delinquency.
View the Companion Brief which offers dozens of policy solutions for local, state, and federal policymakers to relieve the burden of high costs in their communities.