Explore The Solutions

The Urban Institute is exploring promising solutions to advance equity and upward mobility in the decades ahead. We are also identifying what today’s transformational leaders need to know to drive forward groundbreaking ideas. In 2019, we will start sharing what we learn about the country’s big challenges, answering what would it take…

Housing

… to ensure quality, affordable housing for all in communities of opportunity?

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… to ensure quality, affordable housing for all in communities of opportunity?

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Climate Adaptation

… to make sure all families can live in a physically secure home and a stable community that’s prepared for the effects of global climate change?

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… to make sure all families can live in a physically secure home and a stable community that’s prepared for the effects of global climate change?

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Lifelong Learning

… to enable all workers to develop the skills to succeed in a changing labor market?

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… to enable all workers to develop the skills to succeed in a changing labor market?

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Financial Well-Being

… to ensure that every family can achieve and maintain financial security?

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… to ensure that every family can achieve and maintain financial security?

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Job Quality

… to achieve quality jobs for all workers?

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… to achieve quality jobs for all workers?

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Structural Racism

… to  overcome the damaging effects of structural racism and ensure a more equitable future?

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… to  overcome the damaging effects of structural racism and ensure a more equitable future?

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Health-Related Social Needs

... to reduce inequities in healthy life expectancy?

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... to reduce inequities in healthy life expectancy?

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The Urban Institute’s Next50

A refreshed strategy for the future.

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A refreshed strategy for the future.

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Delivering power through knowledge so all people can thrive in a fast-changing world.

The Urban Institute was founded 50 years ago by President Lyndon B. Johnson to provide “power through knowledge” to help solve the problems that weighed heavily on the nation’s hearts and minds. Urban rose to LBJ’s challenge with evidence and analysis to strengthen new ideas for lifting families out of poverty, promoting justice, and revitalizing communities. But many of the challenges and divisions of the 1960s persist today. Meanwhile, powerful shifts in technology, climate, demographics, and the global economy threaten to exacerbate inequalities and block opportunities for people to thrive. What would it take to harness these forces of change to create new windows of opportunity and tear down old barriers? Together with innovative leaders from diverse fields, Urban is looking to the future. We are building power through knowledge to help changemakers across the country accelerate solutions to the challenges of the next 50 years.