Listing of Housing Research Repository Articles Focusing on Housing Affordability & Cost Burden.
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An article by Seungbeom Kang in Housing Policy Debate, “Why Low-Income Households Become Unstably Housed: Evidence From the Panel Study of Income Dynamics,” identified income and job insecurity, lack of car ownership, and the presence of children in a household as household-level factors correlated…
Source: Einstein, K., Glick, D., Palmer, M., Fox, S. (2019). Menino Survey of Mayors: 2018 Results.
The 2019 Prosperity Now Scorecard reports that 40% of households are liquid-asset poor, meaning they lack savings to make ends meet for three months at the poverty level if their income is interrupted. Despite a growing economy, the Scorecard shows household financial vulnerability across the…
The fifth edition of the Menino Survey of Mayors from Boston University’s “Initiative on Cities” found that mayors across the political spectrum identify high housing costs as one of the biggest obstacles to social mobility. Twenty percent of mayors agree that declining housing prices would be good…