The COVID-19 pandemic saw an unprecedented expansion of federal emergency rental assistance (ERA). Using applications to ERA lotteries in four cities linked to survey and administrative data, we assess its impacts on housing stability, financial security, and mental health. We find that...

Over the past 30years, the share of renters in the United States spending over 30% of their income on rent, and thereby qualifying as rent burdened, has increased. This trend has particularly affected low-income families. At the same time, owners of thousands of privately owned, publicly...

Over the past 30years, the share of renters in the United States spending over 30% of their income on rent, and thereby qualifying as rent burdened, has increased. This trend has particularly affected low-income families. At the same time, owners of thousands of privately owned, publicly...

Despite the potential significant benefits of AI in health and particular in healthcare, its uptake is slow. Main barriers include trust issues, understandability of outputs and patient safety concerns. While "trustworthy AI" has been embraced as a policy programme by various global regions,...

Exposure factors systems (e.g. handbooks, guidance documents, on-line databases) help categorising and summarising exposure factors (or determinants) which are commonly used in exposure assessments and risk analysis. The objective of this report is to analyse, based on pre-selected criteria, the...

Exposure factors systems (e.g. handbooks, guidance documents, on-line databases) help categorising and summarising exposure factors (or determinants) which are commonly used in exposure assessments and risk analysis. The objective of this report is to analyse, based on pre-selected criteria, the...

Of the three primary components of housing affordability measures - housing cost, transportation costs, and utility costs - utility expenditures are the least understood, yet the one area where the cost burden can be reduced without household relocation. Existing data sources to measure energy...

On the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act it is imperative to take a critical look at segregation and discrimination in the United States, and the opportunities and challenges associated with making progress on this pressing issue. In that spirit, we released a call for papers focusing on...