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Huiyun Kim1, Sarah A Burgard1, Kristin S Seefeldt1
1University of Michigan.
Abstract:
This article examines the factors shaping longitudinal patterns of housing insecurity in the wake of the Great Recession, with a focus on whether housing assistance helped renters who received it. We use data from the first two waves (2009-10 and 2011) of the Michigan Recession and Recovery Study, a population-representative sample of working-aged adults from Southeast Michigan. We use detailed reports from renters and other non-homeowners to construct measures of instability and cost-related housing problems at both waves, and we compare the changes in these over follow-up between housing assistance recipients and their income-eligible but non-recipient counterparts. Our findings suggest that receiving housing assistance reduced the chance of experiencing housing insecurity problems over follow-up regardless of baseline housing insecurity.
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