Recent events have brought attention to the millions of Americans who struggle to find and
pay for housing. Housing has historically been of interest to sociologists, but it has long been …

Extant research has highlighted the importance of multiple characteristics of housing but has
not comprehensively assessed a broad range of housing characteristics and their relative …

Foreword by Nan Roman, President and CEO of the National Alliance to End Homelessness
This book explains how to end the US homelessness crisis by bringing together the best …

Research documents a link between poverty and child welfare involvement, but the nature of
this relationship is unclear. By providing in-depth accounts of situations leading to child …

Despite frequent moves, low–income black families are more likely than any other group to
churn among disadvantaged neighborhoods, and the least likely to escape them. Traditional …

This paper considers an unexamined mechanism in the selection processes that sort the
urban poor into different neighborhood environments: the landlord. Scholars of poverty and …

Despite decades of research on residential mobility and neighborhood effects, we know
comparatively less about how people sort across geography. In recent years, scholars have …

While poor families experience high residential instability, they also stay put for extended
periods of time before moving. When they do move, they are likely to move laterally to a …

ABSTRACT To succeed, the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program must be attractive to
rental property owners. When landlords refuse to accept subsidized renters, lease-up rates …

Over the past several decades, housing costs have risen sharply, and as a result, an
increasing number of families have become “housing cost burdened,” paying more than one …