Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Alexander Hermann, Sophia Wedeen
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December 16, 2024
The number of cost-burdened renter households has reached a new record high, further deepening the affordability challenge that accelerated during the pandemic. Across all…
Carlos Martín, Alan Mallach, Todd Swanstrom, Austin Harrison, Sophia Wedeen
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August 27, 2024
The deterioration and loss of America’s housing is a threat to the health, safety, security, and financial well-being of millions of low-income residents. Researchers link…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Magda Maaoui, Sophia Wedeen
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June 17, 2024
Restrictive zoning and NIMBY attitudes have left nearly a third of neighborhoods across the country with few options for renters. The concentration of rental housing in some…
Alexander Hermann, Sophia Wedeen, Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Chris Herbert
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January 25, 2023
Using restricted-access data from the US Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey containing detailed geographic information about where respondents live, this paper assesses…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Chris Herbert, Alexander Hermann, Sophia Wedeen
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January 27, 2022
As has been well documented, the financial impact of the pandemic has disproportionally impacted renters, leading to high shares who have fallen behind on rent. Less well…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Ben Demers, Solomon Greene, Chris Herbert, Alexander Hermann, David Luberoff, Sophia Wedeen
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April 8, 2021
The COVID pandemic has had a particularly large impact on the financial well-being of renters in the US, and over the past year millions have struggled to pay rent. While…
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Alexander Hermann, Sophia Wedeen
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January 13, 2021
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, renters in the United States were facing a housing affordability crisis. Nearly a quarter of renter households were spending more than half…
UCC08-17: In this paper, I review the trajectory of consumer credit reforms in France and the United Kingdom. Through a period of significant regulatory reform intended…
