Affordability and availability of rental housing in Pennsylvania

Erin Mierzwa, Kathryn P. Nelson and Harriet Newburger

No 09-02, Community Affairs Discussion Paper from Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Abstract: The Community Affairs Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia undertook this study, Affordability and Availability of Rental Housing in Pennsylvania, to assess the housing needs of Pennsylvania's lower-income renter households and to better understand how their needs vary across the state. Our study looks at the incidence of housing problems among this group at both the beginning and the middle of the current decade. It also considers the extent to which there were shortages in the number of rental units that were both affordable and available to lower-income renters at these two points in time. Our findings strongly suggest that conditions faced by the lowest income renters in Pennsylvania deteriorated from the beginning to the middle of the decade.

Keywords: Rental housing; Pennsylvania (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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