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Affordability and Availability of Rental Housing in Pennsylvania

By Erin Mierzwa, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, and Kathryn P. Nelson, Ph.D., Consultant, Affordable Housing Needs, with Harriet Newburger Ph.D., Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

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Report Sections

  • Executive Summary

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  • Chapter 1: Introduction

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  • Chapter 2: Housing Characteristics in Pennsylvania and Neighboring States in 2000

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  • Chapter 3: Housing Conditions of Pennsylvania's Lower Income Renters in 2000

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  • Chapter 4: A Mid-Decade Update: Housing Conditions in 2005-06

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  • Chapter 5: Implications for Policymakers and Suggested Research

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  • Appendix A: County Level Housing Characteristics in 2000

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  • Appendix B: Measuring National Needs for Affordable Rental Housing: A Brief Review of Past Research and Strategy Recommendations

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  • Appendix C: Methodology for Calculating Affordable and Available Rental Housing Units Using CHAS Data

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  • Appendix D: County-Level Examination of Rental Housing Needs in 2000

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  • Appendix E: Using 2005 and 2006 ACS Data to Assess Rental Housing Needs

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  • Appendix F: Changes Between 1990 and 2000 by DCED Regions and Consolidated PUMAs

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  • Appendix G: Changes Between 2000 and 2005-06 by DCED Regions and Consolidated PUMAs

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  • Bibliography

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  • Glossary

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Bibliography

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Bogdon, Amy, Joshua Silver, and Margery Austin Turner. National Analysis of Housing Affordability, Adequacy, and Availability: A Framework for Local Housing Strategies. Prepared by The Urban Institute for HUD, November 1993.

Brookings Institution. Back to Prosperity: A Competitive Agenda for Renewing Pennsylvania. The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, 2003.

Cromartie, John, and Shawn Bucholtz. “Defining the ‘Rural’ in Rural America,” AmberWaves (June 2008), U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

Donovan, Shaun. Transcript of Keynote Speech at Conference “A Crisis Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Transforming America’s Housing Policy,” Furman Center for Real Estate & Urban Policy, New York University (February 13, 2009).

Gramlich, Edward M. Subprime Mortgages: America’s Latest Boom and Bust. Washington D.C.: The Urban Institute Press, 2007.

Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. America’s Rental Housing: The Key to Balanced National Policy. Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, President and Fellows of Harvard College, 2008.

Kromer, John. “Beyond the Foreclosure Crisis: Reconstituting the Rental Market,” PDF Document Fels Institute of Government, University of Pennsylvania. April 2009 (accessed September 1, 2009).

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Mallach, Alan. “Landlords at the Margins: Exploring the Dynamics of the One to Four Unit Rental Housing Industry,” PDF Document Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, prepared for Revisiting Rental Housing: A National Policy Summit, March 2007 (accessed October 2, 2009).

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Nelson, Kathryn P., Mark Treskon, and Danilo Pelletiere. Losing Ground in the Best of Times: Low Income Renters in the 1990s, PDF Document National Low Income Housing Coalition, March 2004 (accessed April 2, 2008).

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Pelletiere, Danilo. “Renters in Foreclosure: Defining the Crisis, Identifying Solutions,” PDF Document National Low Income Housing Coalition, January 2009 (accessed March 11, 2009).

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