This article contributes to debates within the financialization literature by examining the rise
of monopolies in the US'rental housing market. Drawing on a dataset of multifamily real …

Despite the central role that landlords, or residential rental property owners (RRPOs), play in
housing, important areas of RRPO decision making are not well understood. Because of the …

This paper uses a survey of over 2500 rental property owners in ten cities across the United
States to determine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on landlords' rent collection and …

Missing middle housing is an important although often overlooked housing form in America's
built environment. Although still a large component of the US housing stock, production of …

The COVID-19 pandemic has strained household budgets across the country, hitting renters
especially hard. Millions of renters have lost their jobs and many, after exhausting other …

Against the backdrop of an acute rental affordability crisis and a resurgent tenant's rights
movement, rental industry groups have frequently argued that tenant protection laws …

Landlords are powerful vectors of residential sorting, opening up or constraining access to
stable housing, neighborhood choice, and social opportunity. Although previous research …

Low-cost but unsubsidized one-to four-unit rental properties provide a critical source of
housing for millions of low-and moderate-income renters. These properties are …

In this article, we investigate a largely unexplored policing mechanism: Strategic Task Force
(STF) inspections in Chicago. This process exists at the intersection of civil and criminal …

Scholarly and popular discourse often describe accessory dwelling units (ADUs) as one of
the last bastions of housing affordability, framing “mom and pop” landlords as historically …