{"id":57281,"date":"2022-03-31T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T17:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/?p=57281"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T19:59:09","slug":"medium-prof-byrnes-study-referenced-fight-for-rent-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/medium-prof-byrnes-study-referenced-fight-for-rent-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Medium: Professor Byrne\u2019s Study Featured in Fight for Rent Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Soaring rent prices and low wages have exacerbated homelessness, a situation that grows more dire by the day. A study covering this situation by BUSSW <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Thomas Byrne<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Zillow\u2019s Chris Glynn, and University of Pennsylvania Professor Dennis P. Culhane is featured in a Medium article by Housing is a Human Right, a subsidiary of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation focused on housing. The article highlights how rent control may be the solution, as it ensures that people can afford to live in homes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Excerpt from, <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/housinghumanrt.medium.com\/corporate-landlords-excessive-rents-fuel-homelessness-rent-control-will-save-lives-f04436afd14a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>\u201cCorporate Landlords\u2019 Excessive Rents Fuel Homelessness. Rent Control Will Save Lives,\u201d<\/b><\/a><b> by <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/housinghumanrt.medium.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Housing is a Human Right<\/b><\/a><b>, originally published on Medium:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Politicians and Big Real Estate executives don\u2019t like to tie homelessness to skyrocketing rents, but a study by Zillow Principal Economist Chris Glynn, Thomas Byrne of Boston University School of Social Work, and Dennis P. Culhane of the University of Pennsylvania shows that elected officials can no longer turn a blind eye to that devastating connection. The academic paper, titled \u201cInflection Points in Community-Level Homeless Rates,\u201d was published last summer in The Annals of Applied Statistics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a brief written by Glynn, his team found that communities \u2018where people spend more than 32 percent of their income on rent can expect a more rapid increase in homelessness\u2026 The research also estimates that the scale of homelessness nationwide has been undercounted by roughly 115,000 people, or 20 percent.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/housinghumanrt.medium.com\/corporate-landlords-excessive-rents-fuel-homelessness-rent-control-will-save-lives-f04436afd14a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the full article.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soaring rent prices and low wages have exacerbated homelessness, a situation that grows more dire by the day. A study covering this situation by BUSSW Professor Thomas Byrne, Zillow\u2019s Chris Glynn, and University of Pennsylvania Professor Dennis P. Culhane is featured in a Medium article by Housing is a Human Right, a subsidiary of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19132,"featured_media":57282,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7518,7440,4057],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57281"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80758,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57281\/revisions\/80758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}