Whitney Airgood-Obrycki
Whitney Airgood-Obrycki is a Senior Research Associate at the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies, working on research related to affordable rental housing for low-income households and serving as the project manager and lead author of the Center's signature report America’s Rental Housing. Dr. Airgood-Obrycki's research interests include affordable housing policy, affordability measures, rental housing markets, and suburban neighborhood change. Her work has been published in Housing Policy Debate, Urban Studies, Journal of Urban Affairs, and Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. She holds a BA in History from Simmons College, an MS in Historic Preservation from Ball State University, and a PhD in City & Regional Planning from The Ohio State University.
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Middle-Income Housing Programs Emerge as Affordability Challenges Climb the Income Ladder
The Connections Between Rental Deserts, Segregation, and Restrictive Zoning
Rental Housing Unaffordability: How Did We Get Here?
After Leading a Back to the City Movement, Many Millennials Moved to the Suburbs
Rents Are Cooling, but Not Everywhere
Back to the suburbs? Millennial residential locations from the Great Recession to the pandemic
Exploring mismatch in within-metropolitan affordable housing in the United States
The Geography of Renter Financial Distress and Housing Insecurity During the Pandemic
The Short-Term Benefits of Emergency Rental Assistance
How Well Does the Housing Stock Meet Accessibility Needs? An Analysis of the 2019 American Housing Survey
“The Rent Eats First”: Rental Housing Unaffordability in the United States
Disparities in Residential Mobility Outcomes Among Older Adults in the United States
Rising Costs of Homeownership Are a Growing Burden
Rental Deserts, Segregation, and Zoning
Renters’ Affordability Challenges Worsened Last Year
Deteriorating Rental Affordability: An Update on America’s Rental Housing 2024