Listing of Housing Research Repository Articles Focusing on Housing Affordability & Cost Burden.
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A study published in Housing Studies, “Housing cost, consistency, and context and their relationship to health,” examines the relationship between renters’ health and three of the four “C’s” of housing insecurity: cost, consistency, and context. The authors find that the inability of renters to pay…
A study published in the Journal of Urban Affairs, “How do renters survive unaffordability? Household-level impacts of rent burden in Los Angeles,” found 85% of surveyed renters in central and south Los Angeles reduced their consumption of at least one basic need to afford housing. Rent-burdened…
Public Policy, Occidental College, and the University of California, Davis’s Center for Regional Change analyzes intra-state migration from the greater San Francisco Bay Area to the Central Valley region. The authors of the report, “Bay Area to Central Valley Migration and its Impacts,” discuss how…
HUD released an Executive Summary of its forthcoming Worst Case Housing Needs 2023 Report to Congress on August 21. According to the summary, HUD estimates that a record-high 8.53 million very low-income renter households had worst case housing needs in 2021, surpassing the previous high of 8.48…