Colburn Gregg, Hess Christian, Allen Ryan, Crowder Kyle
University of Washington.
Kennesaw State University.
J Urban Aff. 2025;47(7):2403-2422. doi: 10.1080/07352166.2023.2288587. Epub 2024 Jan 9.
Housing cost burden-defined as paying more than 30% of household income for housing-has become a central feature of the American stratification system with dire consequences for the health and wellbeing of adults and children living in burdened households. To date, existing research has largely focused on the overall prevalence and distribution of housing cost burden-that is, the percentage of households that are cost burdened at a given time and differences in exposure to housing cost burden based on race and income using cross-sectional sources of data. To more fully understand the dynamics of housing cost burden among renter households in the U.S., including the frequency and duration of spells, we use 50 years of longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The analysis reveals that, in contrast to the episodic nature of poverty, housing cost burden is deep, frequent, and persistent for a growing share of American households.
住房成本负担被定义为住房支出超过家庭收入的30%，这已成为美国分层体系的一个核心特征，对生活在负担沉重家庭中的成年人和儿童的健康与福祉产生了可怕的后果。迄今为止，现有研究主要集中在住房成本负担的总体发生率和分布情况，即特定时间内负担成本的家庭百分比，以及使用横截面数据源，基于种族和收入的住房成本负担暴露差异。为了更全面地了解美国租房家庭住房成本负担的动态变化，包括负担期的频率和持续时间，我们使用了收入动态面板研究（PSID）50年的纵向数据。分析表明，与贫困的偶发性不同，住房成本负担对于越来越多的美国家庭来说是严重、频繁且持续存在的。
