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
Making the Rent: Household Spending Strategies During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Renters’ Responses to Financial Stress During the Pandemic
The Rent Eats First: Rental Housing Unaffordability in the US
Which Older Adults Have Access to America’s Most Livable Neighborhoods? An Analysis of AARP’s Livability Index
Delineate the U.S. suburb: An examination of how different definitions of the suburbs matter
Accessibility Features for Older Households in Subsidized Housing
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