The rise of single-family rentals and the relationship to opportunity neighbourhoods for low-income families with children

Sahar Khaleel and Bernadette Hanlon
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Sahar Khaleel: Ohio State University, USA
Bernadette Hanlon: Ohio State University, USA

Urban Studies, 2023, vol. 60, issue 13, 2706-2724

Abstract: Single-family homes make up a significant portion of the rental housing market in the United States. Single-family rentals grew significantly in recent years, especially with the emergence of large-scale investors in the single-family rental market. We investigate if the rise of single-family rentals provides more housing choice for renter families with children, and if a greater number of single-family rentals provides low-income families with children with access to neighbourhoods with high- or moderate-opportunity education. We utilise the Child Opportunity Index to identify low-, moderate- and high-educational opportunity neighbourhoods and, using both binomial and multinomial logistic regression, examine the relationship between the rise in single-family rentals and neighbourhood opportunity access. We find growth in single-family rentals provides more rental alternatives for families with children but does not provide families with children in poverty access to high- or moderate-opportunity neighbourhoods in education. Growth in single-family rentals does provide access to high opportunity for near-poverty families with children (150–185% of poverty), but only when there are few of these kinds of families and when there are large increases in single-family rentals. Our findings suggest that rental burden prevents families with children in poverty from accessing high- and moderate-opportunity neighbourhoods, and the Housing Choice Vouchers programme does not help.

Keywords: Child Opportunity Index; housing choice; neighbourhoods of opportunity; single-family rentals; single family homes; 儿童机会指数; ä½ æˆ¿é€‰æ‹©; 机会街区; å •æˆ·ä½ å®…ç§Ÿèµ; å •æˆ·ä½ å®… (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/00420980231155809

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