A growing share of Americans say affordable housing is a major problem where they live
49% of Americans say the availability of affordable housing in their local community is a major problem, up 10 points from early 2018.
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49% of Americans say the availability of affordable housing in their local community is a major problem, up 10 points from early 2018.
While declining shares give police forces positive marks for their use of force, treatment of racial groups and officer accountability, there is little support for cuts in spending on local policing.
Most favor protecting trans people from discrimination, but fewer support policies related to medical care for gender transitions; many are uneasy with the pace of change on trans issues.
While a few proposals continue to garner bipartisan support, partisan divisions on others – including a ban on assault-style weapons – have grown wider.
U.S. adults who are affiliated with a religion are less likely than religiously unaffiliated adults to support broadly legal marijuana.
Among all U.S. adults, 63% favor making tuition at public colleges free, including 37% who strongly favor the proposal.
Black adults are about five times as likely as whites to say they’ve been unfairly stopped by police because of their race or ethnicity.
A third of U.S. adults say they changed their Thanksgiving plans “a great deal,” while roughly a quarter changed their plans “some.”
The U.S. is seen positively in advanced economies for its technology, entertainment, military and universities, but negatively for its health care system, discrimination and the state of its democracy.
U.S. gun owners have long favored more permissive gun policies while adults who do not own guns have tended to favor more restrictive ones.
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