{"id":13561,"date":"2025-03-18T07:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T11:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/?p=13561"},"modified":"2025-03-20T10:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T14:39:43","slug":"ciss-postdoc-molly-richard-shares-research-with-policy-makers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/2025\/03\/18\/ciss-postdoc-molly-richard-shares-research-with-policy-makers\/","title":{"rendered":"CISS Postdoc Molly Richard Shares Research With Policy Makers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bannerContainer bannerContainer-windowWidth\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">This article, written by Ting Wei Li, <\/span><\/span>originally appeared on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/2025\/03\/14\/ioc-affiliates-published-and-presented-research-on-housing-and-eviction-protections\/\">IOC\u2019s website<\/a> on March 14, 2025.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"bannerContainer bannerContainer-windowWidth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/files\/2025\/03\/alexis-balinoff-2KIDkMzmO-k-unsplash-e1741961043447.jpg\" width=\"3666\" height=\"1634\" class=\"banner\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"content-container\">\n<article role=\"main\" id=\"post-18786\" class=\"post-18786 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-news category-publication\">\n<h2><\/h2>\n<div class=\"profile-listing\">\n<ul class=\"basic\">\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ciss\/files\/2025\/03\/molly-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13564 size-thumbnail\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2025\/03\/molly-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2025\/03\/molly-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2025\/03\/molly-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"profile-name\">Molly Richard<\/p>\n<p class=\"profile-title\">Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Innovation in Social Science, College of Arts &amp; Sciences<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"has-title\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ciss\/files\/2025\/03\/kenton-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13565 size-thumbnail\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2025\/03\/kenton-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/files\/2025\/03\/kenton-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"profile-name\">Kenton Card<\/p>\n<p class=\"profile-title\">Visiting Urban Scholar<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Recently, Boston University Initiative on Cities affiliates\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/molly-richard\/\">Dr. Molly Richard<\/a>, a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/profile\/molly-richard\/\"><span>Postdoctoral Scholar<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0at Boston University\u2019s Center for Innovation in Social Science (CISS), and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/kenton-card\/\">Dr. Kenton Card<\/a>, an IOC\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/kenton-card\/\"><span>Visiting Urban Scholar<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0and current\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cura.umn.edu\/about\/staff\/kenton-card\"><span>Postdoctoral Research Associate<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span><span>at the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs (CURA) at the University of Minnesota, prominently shared their insights and research on housing and \u201cgood cause\u201d or \u201cjust cause\u201d eviction protections in the United States through different platforms. Both made the case that passing new tenant protection legislation across the country had major benefits for renting families, reducing evictions and homelessness, and did not come at the expense of housing production.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On February 24, 2025, Dr. Richard testified as an expert panelist and answered questions from members of\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/capitoltvri.cablecast.tv\/show\/10835?site=1\"><span>Rhode Island\u2019s Special Legislative Commission to Study and Provide Recommendations to Update and Clarify the \u201cResidential Landlord and Tenant Act\u201d<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0on just cause eviction protection laws and the causes and solutions to homelessness, a growing crisis in the Providence metro area and statewide. Dr. Richard was informed by research conducted by Dr. Card and his research team at CURA on the impact \u2014 or the lack thereof \u2014 of just cause eviction protections on housing production. Citing the current literature on the health impacts of homelessness and eviction and their recent research on the drivers of homelessness, Dr. Richard also emphasized that reforms to help stabilize households and mitigate rising rents are necessary for health equity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Dr. Card, in collaboration with Evan Davis (Ph.D. Candidate, CURA), Edward Goetz (Director, CURA), and Jeremy Schwartz (Loyola University Maryland), published a\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cura.umn.edu\/research\/good-case-good-cause-do-good-cause-eviction-protections-reduce-rate-housing-production\"><span>report on just cause eviction protections<\/span><\/a><span>, which Dr. Richard cited in their expert testimony, on March 3, 2025. The research team compared counties across California, Oregon, and New Hampshire through a difference-in-difference analysis on whether the trend in new permits at the county-level in states subject to the passage of good\/just cause eviction protections differed from the trends in nearby counties in states that did not pass such protections. The research team found that good or just cause evictions did not reduce the rate of housing production. The research team followed up their report findings by\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ggwash.org\/view\/98696\/making-the-case-for-good-cause-eviction-in-maryland\"><span>publishing an op-ed<\/span><\/a><span>\u00a0in Greater Greater Washington endorsing a good cause eviction protections across the country in Maryland, Connecticut, and Minnesota, highlighting a \u201cboth\/and\u201d approach that protects families and tenants without adversely affecting housing construction and supply.<\/span><\/p>\n<footer class=\"meta\"><\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article, written by Ting Wei Li, originally appeared on the IOC\u2019s website on March 14, 2025. Molly Richard Postdoctoral Associate at the Center for Innovation in Social Science, College of Arts &amp; Sciences Kenton Card Visiting Urban Scholar Recently, Boston University Initiative on Cities affiliates\u00a0Dr. Molly Richard, a\u00a0Postdoctoral Scholar\u00a0at Boston University\u2019s Center for Innovation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14414"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13561"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13599,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13561\/revisions\/13599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ciss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}