ArticleSocial problems2023
"The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease": Rental Assistance Applicants' Quests for a Rationed and Scarce Resource.
Article in Social problems, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Improving Population Health Through Housing Policy: Lessons From the Public Housing Program.The Milbank quarterly · 2026Article
- "It's a Process-But It Shouldn't Take This Long": The Psychological Burden of Waiting for Rental Assistance.Housing policy debate · 2026Article
- Housing Hardship and Child Behavior Problems from Early Childhood to Adolescence.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- Do Rental Assistance Programs Relieve Overcrowding for Children?Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
- The Affordable Rental Housing Crisis and Population Health Equity: a Multidimensional and Multilevel Framework.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2023Review
- "A Little Bit of a Security Blanket": Renter Experiences with COVID-19-Era Eviction Moratoriums.The Social service review · 2023Article
- The Effects of Rental Assistance Programs on Neighborhood Outcomes for U.S. Children: Nationwide Evidence by Program and Race/Ethnicity.Urban affairs review (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) · 2023Article
- Rental assistance improves food security and nutrition: An analysis of National Survey Data.Preventive medicine · 2023Article
- Association Between Rental Assistance Programs and Hemoglobin A1c Levels Among US Adults.JAMA network open · 2022Article
- Social Determination of HIV: Women's Relationship Work in the Context of Mass Incarceration and Housing Vulnerability.AIDS and behavior · 2021Article
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Abstract
In 2016, only one in five eligible U.S. households received rental assistance and waiting lists averaged two years nationally. The gap between available rental assistance and need requires systems to allocate this scarce resource. The way potential rental assistance recipients experience and navigate these systems is likely to shape who ultimately receives assistance. We draw on repeated qualitative interviews (N=238) with low-income New Haven residents (N=54) to examine how participants understand and navigate rental assistance applications and waiting lists. Participants encountered multiple challenges in their search for rental assistance. They described an opaque and complex application and waiting process requiring significant knowledge to navigate. They also described considerable labor associated with monitoring waiting lists, a challenge made more difficult for some by their lack of a stable address. Additionally, participants described significant labor and knowledge required to strategically navigate prioritization systems that often required them to advocate for their deservingness of scarce housing resources. Our findings suggest that the allocation of rental assistance through complex processes that depend on applicant knowledge, labor, and advocacy may create barriers to housing, particularly for more vulnerable and marginalized housing seekers.
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