Decomposing Housing Unaffordability

A US household is considered ‘rent burdened’ when its rent exceeds 30% of its income. This simple ratio can be decomposed to better understand the sources of unaffordability across space. To demonstrate this new approach, I rewrite the equation for rent burden as a sum of four factors: rent...

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Main Author: Salim Furth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences 2021-06-01
Series:Critical Housing Analysis
Online Access:http://www.housing-critical.com/home-page-1/decomposing-housing-unaffordability
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