Housing Policy DebatePub Date : 2026-01-01Epub Date: 2026-02-16DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2026.2622683
Charles Tran, Penelope Schlesinger, Kim Blankenship, Danya Keene
{"title":"\"It's a Process-But It Shouldn't Take This Long\": The Psychological Burden of Waiting for Rental Assistance.","authors":"Charles Tran, Penelope Schlesinger, Kim Blankenship, Danya Keene","doi":"10.1080/10511482.2026.2622683","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10511482.2026.2622683","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A growing and severe shortage of affordable housing in the U.S. has led to an increase in cost-burdened households and housing insecurity nationwide. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides rental assistance through programs such as Housing Choice Vouchers and public or project-based housing to increase access to affordable housing. However, available funding for these programs limits their supply, creating extensive waitlists for rental assistance. While the physical and mental health consequences of housing insecurity and cost-burdens are well documented, less is known about how the experience of waiting for rental assistance may contribute to these adverse outcomes. This paper examines qualitative data from a longitudinal mixed-methods study about rental assistance and diabetes self-management. Through thematic analysis of 116 semi-structured interviews collected from 30 unique participants, we describe how the uncertainty of one's waitlist status, an obligation to wait, and a sense of powerlessness in the waiting process contribute to poor mental health among rental assistance applicants. Our findings suggest that the experience of waiting and specific features of the waiting process may exacerbate stressors associated with housing insecurity to the detriment of applicants' psychological wellbeing.</p>","PeriodicalId":47744,"journal":{"name":"Housing Policy Debate","volume":"36 2","pages":"255-275"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13055975/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147640325","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cheyenne M Garcia, Jennifer L Evans, Dave Graham-Squire, Caitlin A Carey, Karen A Valle, Margot Kushel
{"title":"Factors Associated With Exits From and Returns to Homelessness Among Older Homeless Adults: Results From the HOPE HOME Study.","authors":"Cheyenne M Garcia, Jennifer L Evans, Dave Graham-Squire, Caitlin A Carey, Karen A Valle, Margot Kushel","doi":"10.1080/10511482.2025.2585141","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10511482.2025.2585141","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Homelessness is dynamic; some individuals cycle between homelessness and housing. In a longitudinal study of 411 adults aged 50 and older who were homeless at study enrollment, we examined the prevalence of and factors associated with exits from and returns to homelessness. With a median 4 years of follow-up, 80% of participants exited homelessness into housing. Having a permanent rental subsidy was associated with retaining housing. Rental subsidies are an effective means to prevent recurring homelessness among older adults who have recently regained housing after a period of homelessness.</p>","PeriodicalId":47744,"journal":{"name":"Housing Policy Debate","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12795584/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145967352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Housing Policy DebatePub Date : 2025-01-01Epub Date: 2025-04-25DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2025.2467136
Emily A Benfer, Peter Hepburn, Valerie Nazarro, Leah Robinson, Jamila Michener, Danya E Keene
{"title":"A Descriptive Analysis of Tenant Right to Counsel Law and Praxis 2017-2024.","authors":"Emily A Benfer, Peter Hepburn, Valerie Nazarro, Leah Robinson, Jamila Michener, Danya E Keene","doi":"10.1080/10511482.2025.2467136","DOIUrl":"10.1080/10511482.2025.2467136","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article provides the first comprehensive description of state and local tenant right to counsel (RTC) policies. From July 2017 through June 2024, five states, 17 cities, and one county passed legislation to formally create a right to legal counsel for tenants in eviction proceedings. These policies contain heterogeneous provisions, including their intended purposes, design and administration requirements, eligibility criteria, and when in the eviction process the right is triggered. This study describes laws as adopted in legislation through policy surveillance and legal mapping methods and examines how policies are executed on the ground through qualitative methods that capture the perspective of multiple stakeholders. The pairing of policy surveillance and legal mapping techniques with qualitative interviews demonstrates where real-world implementation both meets and diverges from legislative requirements and identifies barriers that prevent full implementation of the right to counsel, as well as its systemic benefits. In light of the dearth of national information on implementation of RTC programs, the descriptive, qualitative, and analytic framework detailed herein provides researchers, policymakers, and practitioners with instructive insights for evaluating, refining, and advancing RTC policies.</p>","PeriodicalId":47744,"journal":{"name":"Housing Policy Debate","volume":"35 3","pages":"470-495"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12396838/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144974172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Retraction: The Effect of Rent Control Status on Eviction Filing Rates: Causal Evidence from San Francisco","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/10511482.2024.2403849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2024.2403849","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Housing Policy Debate (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":47744,"journal":{"name":"Housing Policy Debate","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142269927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effect of Rent Control Status on Eviction Filing Rates: Causal Evidence From San Francisco","authors":"Max Gardner, Brian Asquith","doi":"10.1080/10511482.2024.2393629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2024.2393629","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents causal evidence of a significant positive effect of rent control status on eviction filing rates in San Francisco, CA. Two datasets of eviction notices (n = 13,887) and property...","PeriodicalId":47744,"journal":{"name":"Housing Policy Debate","volume":"41 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142175800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Game of Homes: Carrots, Sticks, and the Puzzle of Housing Vacancies","authors":"Jia-Huey Yeh, Yucheng Zou, Szu-Hua Wang, Kuo-Cheng Hsu","doi":"10.1080/10511482.2024.2388110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2024.2388110","url":null,"abstract":"Housing affordability and high vacancy rates are pressing issues faced by countries worldwide, with notable challenges arising in many parts of Asia. This study, taking Taipei as a representative m...","PeriodicalId":47744,"journal":{"name":"Housing Policy Debate","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142175809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“This Voicemail Box Is Full”: Landlord Perceptions of Communication Issues as a Key Challenge to Participating in the Housing Choice Voucher Program","authors":"Anita Zuberi","doi":"10.1080/10511482.2024.2383890","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2024.2383890","url":null,"abstract":"The Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, which is the largest rental subsidy program in the United States, relies on the participation of landlords. Research shows, however, that not all landlords...","PeriodicalId":47744,"journal":{"name":"Housing Policy Debate","volume":"54 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141939273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abigail K. Winiker, Eshan U. Patel, Becky L. Genberg, Jennifer Ching, Catherine Schluth, Shruti H. Mehta, Gregory D. Kirk, Suzanne M. Grieb
{"title":"“Especially Being Homeless, They Just Think You’re Infected with COVID or Something”: A Qualitative Exploration of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on People Experiencing Homelessness With a History of Injection Drug Use in Baltimore, Maryland","authors":"Abigail K. Winiker, Eshan U. Patel, Becky L. Genberg, Jennifer Ching, Catherine Schluth, Shruti H. Mehta, Gregory D. Kirk, Suzanne M. Grieb","doi":"10.1080/10511482.2024.2378807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2024.2378807","url":null,"abstract":"People experiencing homelessness with a substance use disorder are a highly structurally vulnerable population, facing a unique burden of compounding stigma, discrimination, and adverse health outc...","PeriodicalId":47744,"journal":{"name":"Housing Policy Debate","volume":"103 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141882498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Benjamin F. Teresa, Kathryn L. Howell, I.-Shian Suen, Amanda Robinson, Roy Sabo
{"title":"Moving From Crisis to Stability? The Success and Limits of an Eviction Prevention Program","authors":"Benjamin F. Teresa, Kathryn L. Howell, I.-Shian Suen, Amanda Robinson, Roy Sabo","doi":"10.1080/10511482.2024.2368133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2024.2368133","url":null,"abstract":"Eviction prevention policies are often crafted to focus on either an upstream approach, prior to households interacting with eviction court, or a downstream approach, once the court process has beg...","PeriodicalId":47744,"journal":{"name":"Housing Policy Debate","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141585967","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rose-Marie Stambe, Stefanie Plage, Cameron Parsell, Ella Kuskoff, Edwina Wagland
{"title":"A Shelter by Any Other Name? Delivering Homeless Crisis Accommodation Services in a Hotel","authors":"Rose-Marie Stambe, Stefanie Plage, Cameron Parsell, Ella Kuskoff, Edwina Wagland","doi":"10.1080/10511482.2024.2362633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10511482.2024.2362633","url":null,"abstract":"How to shelter people who are experiencing homelessness is a pressing social problem. A substantive literature critiques the congregate shelter model that is often coupled with paternalistic servic...","PeriodicalId":47744,"journal":{"name":"Housing Policy Debate","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141746070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}