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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The Implications of Different Suburban Definitions
Are the Suburbs Losing Status?
Do Rental Subsidies Provide Accessible Housing for Older Adults?
Older Adults Increasingly Face Housing Affordability Challenges
Even Fully-Employed and Moderate-Income Households Struggle to Pay the Rent
The Fragmentation and Concentration of Property Management in US Rental Markets
The role of government benefits in reducing housing cost burdens, 2009 – 2022
The Rent Eats More: Residual Income Housing Cost Burdens from 2019–2023
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
New Report Shows a Surging Rental Market, Starkly Divided by Race and Renter Incomes
Renters’ Responses to Financial Stress During the Pandemic
Housing and Livable Neighborhoods
Interactive Tool Illustrates the Disparate Economic Impacts of the Pandemic
The Rent Eats First: Rental Housing Unaffordability in the US