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
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
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