How Are Landlords Fairing During the COVID-19 Pandemic? Joint Center for Housing Studies, August 25, 2021
This paper describes the results of a survey that asked rental property owners to assess the financial health of their pre- and post-COVID rental business and about the tools they have relied on to manage their rental properties during these two time periods.
Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act: An Initial Analysis of Short-Term Trends NYU Furman Center, August 17, 2021
The Housing Stability and Tenant Protection action expanded protections for New York renters and limited rent increases. This brief analyzes properties with various shares of rent stabilized units to understand whether the law had a differential impact on primarily rent stabilized properties.
Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns After the Rollout of Universal Access to Counsel in New York City NYU Furman Center, August 4, 2021
This paper examines the effects of universal access to counsel (UAC) in the private rental market and finds that the ZIP Codes where UAC was initially rolled out (early UAC ZIP Codes) had higher rates of represented tenants and lower rates of executed warrants of eviction than ZIP Codes selected for UAC but prior to its implementation.
