POLICY TO POCKET
A Public Policy & Governance Research Series
Policy to Pocket examines how policy decisions, institutional systems, infrastructure, transportation, housing, wages, and public investment shape everyday life across cities and communities. The series translates complex governance and policy issues into accessible, research-driven analysis grounded in lived experience, helping connect public decisions to the financial, social, and structural pressures communities navigate daily.
Rather than focusing only on political debate or policy language, Policy to Pocket examines how governance systems are experienced in practice, particularly around affordability, access to opportunity, mobility, public services, and quality of life. Through city and regional analysis, Policy to Pocket seeks to make governance, policy, and institutional decision-making more understandable, usable, and connected to everyday life
What This Series Explores
Housing and affordability
Transporation & Mobility
Research Across Cities
Philadelphia
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Economic Opportunity
New York City
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Public Services
Puerto Rico
Current Research
Urban Development
Washington DC
Coming Soon
Cost of Living
Chicago
Coming Soon
Can a Full-Time Worker Afford Access to Opportunity in Philadelphia?
An in-depth analysis of the relationship between wages and housing costs, transportation, and access to opportunity in Philadelphia.
The Cost of Proximity: How Housing, Transit, and Time Are Reshaping Everyday Survival in New York City.
New York City offers extraordinary economic opportunity. But housing costs, transportation expenses, commuting time, childcare, wages, and fragmented public systems determine who can realistically remain connected to it.