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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Interactive Tool Illustrates the Disparate Economic Impacts of the Pandemic
The Rent Eats First: Most Renters Can’t Afford a Comfortable Standard of Living
Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities Score Lower on Livability
The Geography of Livability: Insights from AARP’s Livability Index
Making Rent in the Pandemic: How Are Older Adult Households Faring?
Deteriorating Rental Affordability: An Update on America’s Rental Housing 2024
Recognizing Racial Diversity Within Households: Implications for Housing Research
Subsidizing the Middle: Policies, Tradeoffs, and Costs of Addressing Middle-Income Affordability Challenges
Rental Deserts, Segregation, and Zoning
The Housing Shortage Is Still Out There
In Search of Rural: How Varying Definitions Shape Housing Research
How Definitions Shape the Rural Housing Landscape
Back to the suburbs? Millennial residential locations from the Great Recession to the pandemic
Six Takeaways from America’s Rental Housing 2024
Exploring mismatch in within-metropolitan affordable housing in the United States
Inflation Pressures Are Stressing Renter Households