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?
Public Housing Authorities in the Private Market
Estimating the Gap in Affordable and Available Rental Units for Families
Defining Suburbs: How Definitions Shape the Suburban Landscape
Suburban status and neighbourhood change
Suburban revalorization: Residential infill and rehabilitation in Baltimore County’s older suburbs
In Search of Rural: How Varying Definitions Shape Housing Research
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