"The Potential End of Emergency Housing Voucher Funding: Public Housing Agencies’ Search for Solutions" (with Christi Economy, Ryan Finnigan, and Claudia Aiken)

UC Berkeley Terner Center for Housing Innovation and NYU Furman Center Housing Solutions Lab, 2025. [link]

"Policy at a crossroads: What we know about work requirements and time limits in federal housing assistance" (with Claudia Aiken)

NYU Furman Center Housing Solutions Lab, 2025. [link]

"Exploring the Feasibility of Linking Eviction Records to Administrative Databases for HUD's Housing Choice Voucher Program" (with Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O'Regan, and Hector Blanco)

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research [forthcoming]

"Impact of the Rental Assistance Demonstration on Children’s Residential Mobility, Health and Well-Being in New York State." (with Ingrid Gould Ellen, Renata Howland, and Steve Mello)

(Selected for presentation at 2022 APPAM and 2022 ACSP)

U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research, 2023. [link]

"Half the Battle is Just Showing Up: Non-Answers and Default Judgments in Non-Payment Eviction Cases Across New York State" (with Ingrid Gould Ellen, Katherine O'Regan, Ryan Brenner, and Sophie House)

NYU Furman Center, 2023. [link]

"Falling Through the Cracks? The Distribution of ERAP Spending in New York State" (with Ingrid Gould Ellen and Carl Hedman)

NYU Furman Center, Housing Crisis Research Collaborative, 2022. [link]

"Eviction Practices in Subsidized Housing: Evidence From New York State" (with Ingrid Gould Ellen and Katherine O'Regan), Cityscape - Local Data for Local Action Special Issue

"The Impact of Public Housing Conversions on Tenant Composition" (with Hector Blanco)

(Selected for presentation at 2025 APPAM)

This paper uses administrative data from HUD on 416,317 households living in 1,725 developments that converted through the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program between 2014 and 2024 to analyze the effects of RAD conversion on the characteristics of households living in converted developments over time. We use a dynamic difference-in-differences design to test for changes in the average characteristics of households in these developments as well as changes in the characteristics of households moving into and out of developments after conversion. We also evaluate any differences in effects depending on whether a development converted through PBV or PBRA, which involve different waitlist practices.

"The Effects of RAD Conversion on Eviction Filing Patterns" (with Peter Hepburn and Ingrid Gould Ellen)

The Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program was created in response to the severe backlog of maintenance and repairs in public housing developments across the U.S. The RAD program allows public housing agencies (PHAs) to convert developments from conventional public housing support to project-based Section 8 contracts, which gives more flexibility to leverage sources of both public and private funds for capital needs. Tenants and advocates have raised concerns that RAD conversions may lead to higher rates of eviction, particularly for conversions that involve the transfer of property management responsibility to for-profit entities that may turn to the eviction process more readily. It could also be the case that RAD conversions have no effect on eviction patterns, or are even associated with fewer filings. The program guarantees tenants in converted properties many of the same rights as public housing residents, including “good cause” eviction protections that require lease renewals and specify that tenants can only be evicted for lease violations. In this paper, we conduct the first systematic study of whether RAD conversion leads to changes in eviction practices. We identified 617,900 eviction cases filed between 2010 and 2024 against residents of 4,410 public housing developments across 43 states. During the study period, 812 of these developments (18%) went through RAD conversion. Using a dynamic difference-in-differences estimator that allows us to account for the staggered timing of conversions, we find that RAD conversion is not associated with a statistically significant change in eviction filing or eviction judgment rates.

"The Housing Externalities of Private Investment in Public Housing" (with Hector Blanco and Ingrid Gould Ellen)

Public housing in the United States has fallen out of favor partly due to the physical deterioration of its buildings and the resulting negative externalities on surrounding neighborhoods. The Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) program was introduced in 2011 as a policy to address these issues by allowing PHAs to leverage private financial support to rehabilitate public housing developments while preserving long-term affordability. Our study examines the impact of RAD-induced rehabilitations of public housing on local housing markets, focusing on spillover effects on the sale and rental prices of nearby properties. We aim to distinguish between the effects derived from physical improvements to the buildings and those associated with the privatization of management.