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Housing Cost Burden and New Lawful Immigrants in the United States

“…The Full model indicates that including additional variables in the analyses reduces this cost burden differential to 19.6% (marginal effects, last column, Table 3). This result is consistent with previous research indicating that African Americans have lower rents than Whites (Boehm and Schlottmann 2008) and similar rental cost burdens to non-Hispanic Whites (Chi and Laquatra 1998;Elmelech 2004). However, it is contrary to our expectations that institutional discrimination operating in the U.S. housing market might be linked with higher housing cost burdens for Black than non-Black immigrants, ceteris paribus.…”

“…The state variable capturing median home price is not significantly associated with cost burden in either specification. However, those living in the South have lower housing cost burdens than persons in the Northeast in both models, in line with past studies documenting the greater affordability of the South (Chi and Laquatra 1998;Lipman 2003).…”

“…For example, immigrant homeowners have housing cost burdens that are 7.5% higher than renters, a result that is inconsistent with some studies (Chi and Laquatra 1998) but in line with others that focus on low to moderate-income immigrant families (Lipman 2005). Larger households have lower housing cost burdens, perhaps because they have more adults that contribute to the household income and offset expenditures on housing.…”

“…All evidence points to increasing housing cost burdens in recent years, for both homeowners and renters. Nationally, income growth has not kept pace with rising housing prices (Apgar et al 1990;Chi and Laquatra 1998), and has posed a substantial barrier to securing affordable housing and the likelihood of homeownership (Krivo 1995). The situation has worsened since 2000, as housing price appreciation has risen far faster than median household incomes and overall price inflation (Joint Center for Housing Studies 2006).…”

Rent burden determinants in hot and cold housing markets of Davidson and Shelby counties, Tennessee

“…For example, income inequality is argued to have an impact on rental affordability and rent burden-an increase in Gini coefficient (less equality) associates with an increase in rent-burdened households (Dong, 2018). Further, Chi and Laquatra (1998) demonstrated that different age groups were not equally vulnerable to rent burden, with older people at lower risk since they tend to possess their own housing and their mortgages are often paid off. In contrast, younger households are more vulnerable to the lack of affordable housing (Hoolachan et al, 2017).…”