The Privatization of College Housing: Poverty, Affordability, and the U.S. Public University

Thomas M. Laidley

Housing Policy Debate, 2014, vol. 24, issue 4, 751-768

Abstract: Much of the research on housing policy over the past generation has focused on its relationship to affordability and the spatial demography of poverty. Here, I focus on a particular sector of the market that has largely gone unnoticed in the academic literature: college housing. I examine the relationships among college undergraduates residing off-campus, poverty rates, and housing cost and affordability measures. Using first-difference models of tract-level data from 2000 to 2008, I find robust, positive associations between off-campus populations and poverty rates, and more modest but still visible relations to housing outcomes. The results suggest that demographers should pay attention to the presence of college students in urban areas, and also hold implications for policy related to grant provisioning and housing.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2013.875053

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