Paying the Rent in a Pandemic: Recent Trends In Rent Payments Among Affordable Housing Tenants in California Terner Center, June 18, 2021
This brief provides a window into uneven impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on California renters and the mounting rental arrears that tenants are facing as the economy begins to reopen. The study draws on rent payment data from January 2019 through December 2020 from 8,605 households living in affordable housing properties managed by Eden Housing, one of the largest nonprofit housing developers in California.
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Equity Trade-Offs in the Design of COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Urban Institute, July 28, 2021
By elevating trade-offs and exploring how one set of local program leaders responded to competing priorities in their own communities, we hope to surface lessons that can inform both future rounds of federal relief policy and future iterations of local emergency assistance programs for policymakers across all levels of government.
The State of the Nation's Housing 2021 Joint Center for Housing Studies, June 2021
This report examines nation-wide trends in the housing stock, home buying trends, and renter stability. Even as the US economy continues to recovery, the inequities amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic remain front and center.
Treasury Emergency Rental Assistance Programs in 2021: Analysis of a National Survey Housing Initiative at Penn, NYU Furman Center, and the National Low Income Housing Coalition, June 2021
This new report examines the program design and implementation challenges of emergency rental assistance (ERA) programs created or expanded in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and economic fallout.
