; (2) an assessment of the extent and impacts of the affordable housing crisis in urban areas nationwide, particularly within jurisdictions for which the Secretary has applied a high housing cost adjustment; (3) an analysis and assessment of the effects that high housing cost adjustments have had on income limits and rent prices in jurisdictions for which the Secretary has applied such an adjustment; (4) an assessment of the potential impacts to affordable housing, particularly on income limits and rent prices, of calculating area median income on a zip-code level basis and using other localized methodologies; (5) assess and propose a process through which State housing authorities may designate area median income jurisdictions within that State; (6) an assessment of alternative metrics to area median income for the purposes of setting income levels and related thresholds for affordable housing programs administered by the Secretary; (7) recommendations for how the Secretary could reform or eliminate use of area median income for the purposes of making housing more affordable for low-income and middle class families in urban areas