Listing of Housing Research Repository Articles Focusing on Housing Affordability & Cost Burden.
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An article published in Social Science and Medicine, “The impacts of rent burden and eviction on mortality in the United States, 2000-2019,” finds that both high rent costs relative to household income (rent burden) and the threat of eviction were associated with increased mortality among renters…
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…