The Housing Crisis Research Collaborative has concluded an RFP process for individual researchers and is awarding research grants to the following three research projects:
Lisa Bates, Portland State University, “Making eviction visible: landlord behaviors at the end of the Portland moratorium”
Elora Raymond, Georgia Institute of Technology, ““Evictions, Gentrification and Opportunity Zone Investors during the COVID-19 Crisis”
Anna Roesti and Allison Suppan Helmuth,American Bar Foundation, “Preserving affordable housing in the wake of COVID: Insights from a study of landlord decision-making in Chicago's small-building rental sector”
Thank you to our newsletter subscribers for helping us spread the word about this opportunity. We will share insights from these research projects when they are ready.
HCRC Publications
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.
Research Spotlight
The Uneven Impact of the Pandemic on the Tenants and Owners of Small Rental Properties Terner Center, July 13, 2021
This study presents results of a nation-wide survey of landlords of small rental properties to better understand the patterns of missed rent payments among tenants and landlords due to the pandemic. The author defines small rental properties as 1- to 4-unit properties, including rented condominium units.
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.
Challenges and Opportunities for Hotel-to-Housing Conversions in New York City NYU Furman Center, June 2021
This report examines the legal regime governing hotel conversions to better understand what opportunities for hotel conversion exist in New York City and identify the most important regulatory barriers to such adaptive uses.
