AREUEA Policy Forum

The AREUEA Policy Forum aims to build bridges between research and policy making in real estate and urban policy.

Inaugural Event: “Eviction Prevention Policies”

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June 2, 2022, AREUEA National Meeting (Washington, DC) 

• Moderator
  • Ingrid Gould Ellen, New York University
• Panelists
  • Boaz Abramson, Stanford University
  • Vicki Been, NYU and Former Deputy Mayor, New York City
  • Robert Collinson, University of Notre Dame
  • Marisa Novara, Commissioner of Housing, City of Chicago
  • Winnie van Dijk, Harvard University
   Photo: (c) Lynn Friedmann

Featured Research Briefs

• “Understanding & Measuring the Consequences of Evictions Using Linked Datasets”
  
  • Research conducted by Robert Collinson (University of Notre Dame), John Eric Humphries (Yale University), Nick Mader (Chapin Hall), Davin Reed (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia), Daniel Tannenbaum (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), and Winnie van Dijk (Harvard University)
• “The Welfare Effects of Eviction and Homelessness Policies”
  
  • Boaz Abramson (Stanford University)

Additional resources

Working papers

• “The Effects of Legal Representation on Tenant Outcomes in Housing Court: Evidence from New York City’s Universal Access Program”, Michael T. Cassidy and Janet Currie (2022)

• “Does Eviction Cause Poverty? Quasi-experimental Evidence from Cook County, IL”, John Eric Humphries, Nicholas Mader, Daniel Tannenbaum & Winnie van Dijk (2019)

• “Racial Disparities in Housing Evictions: Evidence from the Access to Counsel”, Rahul Goravara (2021)

• “How ‘Bad’ is Renter Protection for Institutional Investment in Multifamily Housing?”, Meagan McCollum and Stanimira Milcheva (2020)

• “More Than Shelter: The Effects of Rental Eviction Moratoria on Household Well-Being”, Xudong An, Stuart A. Gabriel and Nitazan Tzur-Ilan(2021)

• “Eviction Risk of Rental Housing: Does It Matter How Your Landlord Finances the Property?”, Brent W. Ambrose, Xudong An and Luis A. Lopez, (2021)

• “The Effects of Evictions on Low-Income Households”, Robert Collinson and Davin Reed (2018)

• “Housing Precarity & the COVID-19 Pandemic: Impacts of Utility Disconnection and Eviction Moratoria on Infections and Deaths Across US Counties”, Kay Jowers, Christopher Timmins, Nrupen Bhavsar, Qihui Hu & Julia Marshall (2021)

Publications

• Masatomo Suzuki and Yasushi Asami (2020), “Tenant Protection, Temporal Vacancy and Frequent Reconstruction in the Rental Housing Market”, Real Estate Economics, 48 (4)
• Ambrose, Brent W. and Moussa Diop (2021), “Information Asymmetry, Regulations and Equilibrium Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the Housing Rental Market”, Real Estate Economics, 49 (S1), 2021
• Jack Y Favilukis, Pierre Mabille and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (2022), “Affordable Housing and City Welfare”, Review of Economic Studies
• Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O’Regan, Sophia House and Ryan Brenner (2021), “Do Lawyers Matter? Early Evidence on Eviction Patterns after the rollout of NYC’s Universal Access to Counsel”, Housing Policy Debate

Links

Research institutes & Labs

• The Eviction Lab
• NYU Furman Center
• Urban Institute

News items

• A Renter Safety Net: A Call for Federal Emergency Rental Assistance, Dec 2020
• Millions of Renters Face Eviction—Why Today's Housing Market is Partially to Blame, Dec 12, 2016
• Many Renters Who Face Eviction Owe Less Than $600, Dec 13, 2019
• Eviction Moratoriums Helped During Covid, But There’s A Better Way To Cut Homelessness, Jan 10, 2022
• The eviction moratorium is about to end, yet federal relief funds largely remain unspent, July 28, 2021
• Struggling US renters at risk as eviction moratorium expires, July 31, 2021
• With Evictions Resuming, Tenants Scramble for Assistance, Aug 2, 2021
• The Rental Evictions Fiasco, Aug 2, 2021
• The Coming Eviction Crisis, Aug 3, 2021
• CDC extends evictions moratorium for US renters, Aug 3, 2021
• Evicted, Despite a Federal Moratorium: ‘I Do Not Know What I Am Going to Do’, Aug 11, 2021
• The Vulnerable Pay the Price for Covid Eviction Moratoriums, Aug 13, 2021
• Real-Estate Interests Ask Supreme Court to Block Biden’s Eviction Moratorium, Aug 20, 2021
• Supreme Court Blocks Biden Administration’s New Eviction Moratorium, Aug 26, 2021
• Goldman Sees 750,000 Evictions in U.S. as Bans Come to an End, Aug 30, 2021
• Mass Evictions Didn’t Result After U.S. Ban Ended, Despite Fears, Oct 14, 2021
• Renters are still protected from eviction in these states and cities, Nov 12, 2021
• New Local Laws Aim to Stop Rising Evictions, Dec 25, 2021
• Why homelessness is still with us, Jan 8, 2022
• New York’s Ban on Evictions Is Expiring. What Happens Now?, Jan 14, 2022
• ‘I’m Scared’: Thousands in New York Public Housing Are Behind on Rent, Feb 8, 2022
• New York City Plans to Stop Homeless People From Sheltering in Subway, Feb 18, 2022
• If My Lease Expired but I’m Still Paying Rent, Can I Be Kicked Out?, Feb 19, 2022
• California Lawmakers Propose Extending Eviction Protections, Mar 24, 2022
• LA’s Eviction Moratorium Holds As Supreme Court Refuses To Hear Landlords’ Challenge, Apr 18, 2022
• Number of homeless residents in D.C. lowest in 17 years, mayor says, Apr 21, 2022