Revisiting
Rental Housing: A
National Policy Summit
Introduction and Overview
Overview Paper: Taking Stock of the Nation’s Rental Housing Challenges
and a Half Century of Public Policy Responses
By Eric S. Belsky and Rachel Bogardus Drew, Harvard University
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Panel
1: Rental Market Operations and Outcomes
Where Poor Renters Live in Our Cities
By Stuart Rosenthal, Syracuse University
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Landlords at the Margins: Exploring the Dynamics of the One to Four Unit Rental Housing Industry
By Alan Mallach, National Housing Institute
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Evolution of Metropolitan Rental Housing Stocks:
Preliminary Findings, 1970-2000
By Denise DiPasquale and Michael Murray, City Research
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Keynote Presentation
Rental Costs and Land Use Regulation
By Edward Glaeser, Harvard University
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Panel 2: Rental Market Problems-Why Should the Government Intervene?
Rental Housing Affordability and Children’s Outcomes (forthcoming)
By Sandra Newman and Joseph Harkness, Johns Hopkins University
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The Social Costs of Concentrated Poverty: Externalities to
Neighboring Households and Property Owners and the Dynamics of Decline
By George C. Galster and Jackie M. Cutsinger, Wayne State University;
and Ron Malega, University of Georgia
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Land Use Regulation and the Rental Housing Market:
A Case Study of Massachusetts Communities
By Jenny Schuetz, New York University
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Panel 3: Learning From the Past-Does Our Rental Housing Policy
Work?
The Effect of Means-Tested Housing Assistance on Labor Supply:
New Evidence from a Housing Voucher Lottery (forthcoming)
By Brian A. Jacob, Harvard University; and Jens Ludwig, Georgetown University
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Designing Subsidized Rental Housing Programs:
What Have We Learned?
By Jill Khadduri, Abt Associates; and Charles Wilkins, The Compass Group, LLC
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Spillovers and Subsidized Housing:
The Impact of Subsidized Rental Housing on Neighborhoods
By Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University
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Panel 4: Building on and Moving Beyond Existing Rental Subsidy
Programs
Subsidized Housing and Employment:
Building Evidence about What Works to Improve Self-Sufficiency
By James A. Riccio, MDRC
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Should We Foster the Nonprofit Housing Sector as Developers and Owners of Subsidized Rental Housing?
By Rachel G. Bratt, Tufts University
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Enhancing Access to Capital for Smaller Unsubsidized
Multifamily Rental Properties
By William C. Apgar, Harvard University; and Shekar Narasimhan, Beekman Advisors
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Panel 5: Moving Forward-Overcoming State and Local Resistance
Overcoming Opposition to Multifamily Rental Housing
By Mark Obrinsky, National Multi Housing Council; and Debra Stein, GCA Strategies, Inc.
From Hurdles to Bridges:
Local Land-Use Regulations and the Pursuit of Affordable Rental Housing
By Rolf Pendall, Cornell University
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Preserving Properties on the Edge:
Rapid Recycling of Distressed and Abandoned Properties
By W. Dennis Keating, Cleveland State University
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Panel 6: Thinking Outside of the Box-Three Views for Redesigning
Rental Policy
Just Suppose: Housing Subsidies for Low Income Renters
By John M. Quigley, University of California, Berkeley
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Workforce Development and Rental Policy:
How Can What We Know Inform Next Steps?
By Julia Lane and Ned English, University of Chicago; Fredrik Andersson, Cornell University;
and Patrick Park, Yonsei University
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Rethinking U.S. Rental Housing Policy
By Margery Austin Turner, The Urban Institute; and Bruce Katz, The Brookings Institution
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Wrap-up Presentation
Revisiting Rental Housing:
Moving Forward
By Eric S. Belsky, Harvard University
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