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
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
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: Most Renters Can’t Afford a Comfortable Standard of Living