Cityscape: Volume 20 Number 2 | The Housing-Health Connection

The goal of Cityscape is to bring high-quality original research on housing and community development issues to scholars, government officials, and practitioners. Cityscape is open to all relevant disciplines, including architecture, consumer research, demography, economics, engineering, ethnography, finance, geography, law, planning, political science, public policy, regional science, sociology, statistics, and urban studies.

Cityscape is published three times a year by the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Cityscape Home  |  View Past Issues

The Housing-Health Connection

Volume 20, Number 2

Mark D. Shroder

Michelle P. Matuga

The Long-Term Dynamics of Affordable Rental Housing: Creating and Using a New Database

John C. Weicher
Hudson Institute

In a study recently released by the Hudson Institute, the authors reported on the dynamics of affordable rental housing during the period between 1985 and 2013. In this article, we describe the data used in that analysis, present some of the most important findings, and explain how to obtain the data and the documentation, as well as the study.