Research Library
Explore Learning Collider’s library featuring publications and working papers from director Peter Bergman and many of our Research Affiliates.
Creating Moves to Opportunity: Experimental Evidence on Barriers to Neighborhood Choice
Abstract: “The findings imply that most low-income families do not have a strong preference to stay in low-opportunity areas; instead, barriers in the housing search process are a central driver of residential segregation by income.”
Housing Search Frictions: Evidence from Detailed Search Data and a Field Experiment
By providing information about school quality, affordable housing websites can help families move to opportunity.
Affordable Housing Tech & Data Series, Part 4
Rents are the go-to indicators for understanding the cost of leased housing in the U.S. But the actual cost of a unit - be it a single-family home, apartment, or any unit in between - is a complicated nexus of mandatory fees and expenses from initial application to deposits to utilities. To understand the hurdles to affordable housing, notably for low-income households including Section 8 voucher holders, policymakers and agencies need robust data beyond rents.