Policy Category: Rental Housing
Building Local Institutional Capacity: Lessons Learned from the Emergency Rental Assistance Program
Author: Elizabeth Kneebone Read the full paper here. The paper draws on interviews with 41 stakeholders with insights into the…
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Rising Rents, Not Enough Data: How a Lack of Transparency Threatens to Undermine California’s Rent Cap
Authors: Alexander Casey Housing Affordability Data Lab Director, Terner Housing Innovation Labs Samantha Gordon Chief Programs Officer, TechEquity Collaborative…
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An Uneven Housing Safety Net: Disparities in the Disbursement of Emergency Rental Assistance and the Role of Local Institutional Capacity
Read the full paper here. Authors: Elizabeth Kneebone, Research Director Quinn Underriner, Data Scientist
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Taking Housing Solutions from the Near-Term Crisis to the Long-Term Crisis
It has been over a year-and-a-half since the U.S. economy lost over 20 million jobs in only a few months.…
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Findings and Lessons from Two National Surveys of Landlords
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in profound economic hardship for the nation’s renters; the most recent Census Bureau Household Pulse…
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What the Small-Scale Rental Property Market Tells Us About the Rollout of Emergency Rental Assistance
On August 26th, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the Biden administration’s latest eviction moratorium. While some state and local…
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The Uneven Impact of the Pandemic on the Tenants and Owners of Small Rental Properties
Read the full paper here. Author: Nathaniel Decker, Postdoctoral Scholar
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Paying the Rent in a Pandemic: Recent Trends in Rent Payments Among Affordable Housing Tenants in California
Read the full paper "Paying the Rent in a Pandemic" here. Authors: Elizabeth Kneebone, Research Director Quinn Underriner,…
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The Ongoing Housing Crisis: California Renters Still Struggle to Pay Rent Even as Counties Re-Open
As we head into the seventh month of shelter-in-place orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic forecast and its…
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Recession and Recovery: The Critical Role of Housing Assistance in Promoting Economic Security for Low-Income Households
Author: Carolina Reid, Faculty Research Advisor Research Assistant: Beatriz Stambuk-Torres Read the full analysis here.
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