; (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, including a comparison of rent burdens for very low-income households in jurisdictions with and without high housing cost adjustments; (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, including any effects on maximum rents allowed under sections 42 and 142 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 for tax-subsidized units; (4) an updated 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) 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; (8) any further recommendations for how the Secretary could use existing authorities to make housing more affordable for low-income and middle class families in urban areas, particularly for such families for which the Secretary has applied a high housing cost adjustment