Gregg Colburn
Biographic Data
| ID | 4100484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gregg Colburn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gregg |
| FAMILY NAME | Colburn |
| SIGNATURE | COLBURN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7781-5177 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Subsidy Overlaps in Federal Housing Policy
There is limited and incomplete empirical evidence that documents the extent of overlap, or layering, between federal housing programs, including supply-side subsidies, such as the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), and demand-side rental assistance. Importantly, we know little about how the overlap varies by time, by geography, and in different housing market conditions. This project uses administrative data collected by federal agencies and…
What Would It Take to End Homelessness in the United States
Ending homelessness in the United States has remained stubbornly out of reach. Despite hundreds of federal, state, and local plans to end homelessness, most have ended unsuccessfully—due to a range of issues, notably insufficient resources. Homelessness persists and, in many communities, has increased because of myriad intervening factors—many of which lie outside the control of the systems tasked with solving it. This paper summarizes the eviden…
The dynamics of housing cost burden among renters in the United States
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…
Exploring the association between household compositional change and mobility of subsidized householders in the United States
This study examines the relationship between household compositional change and residential mobility of subsidized householders. Data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Annual Longitudinal Files 2005-2018 is used to measure household compositional change and mobility for subsidized householders in the Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher programs. Householders are 67% more likely to move when a change in household comp…
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children's well-being and health
Hotels as Noncongregate Emergency Shelters
This study analyzes the COVID-19 homelessness response in King County, Washington, in which people were moved out of high-density emergency shelters into hotel rooms. This intervention was part of a regional effort to de-intensify the shelter system and limit the transmission of the virus to protect vulnerable individuals experiencing homelessness. This study used quantitative and qualitative methods to describe the experiences of and outcomes on…
Neoliberal housing policy
Neoliberal housing policy: An international perspective, by Keith Jacobs." Journal of Urban Affairs, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Racial disparity in exposure to housing cost burden in the United States
This paper uses the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to analyze Black-White differences in housing cost burden exposure among renter households in the United States from 1980 to 2017, expanding understanding of this phenomenon in two respects. Specifically, we document how much this racial disparity changed among renters over almost four decades and identify how much factors associated with income or housing costs explain Black-White inequality in …
How do single-family homeowners value residential and commercial density? It depends
The use of markets in housing policy
Many countries use demand-side housing subsidies to support low-income households. Unlike public or social housing programs, demand-side subsidies require recipients to enter the private market to use their benefits. The focus of this study is the experiences of assisted households in the private housing market and the outcomes they achieve. Given the link between policy design and program outcomes and because all housing subsidy programs are not…
Capitalizing on Collapse
A well-documented consequence of the recent foreclosure crisis was a pronounced dislocation in the single-family home market. Large institutional buyers emerged to capitalize on this dislocation. These firms acquired hundreds of thousands of single-family homes to create a pool of single-family rentals (SFRs) in markets across the United States. Existing analyses of institutional investors focus on their aggregate characteristics and associated c…
Constraints and opportunities for innovation in the Moving to Work Demonstration Program
The Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration Program provides participating housing agencies with additional programmatic and operational flexibility that is used to achieve Congress’s statutory goals. The MTW Demonstration Program is designed to provide agencies with the flexibility to pursue innovative activities, yet there are myriad constraints that alter the behavior of these agencies. This study uses evidence generated from interviews with person…
The effect of market conditions on the housing outcomes of subsidized households
Since being created in the 1970s, housing vouchers have become the primary mode of federal housing support for low-income households in the US. The voucher programme was designed to provide recipients with the mobility needed to secure higher quality housing in neighbourhoods of their choice. Decades of analysis suggest that the programme has failed to produce the favourable outcomes envisioned by policymakers. To add to our understanding of the …
Rent burden and the Great Recession in the USA
In the aftermath of the recent recession, the percentage of households facing rent burden in the USA reached historically high levels, while cost burden for owners has shrunk. This study uses two panels from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to compare the prevalence, distribution and household responses to the phenomenon of rent burden in the USA in the years immediately before and after the Great Recession. Results suggest t…
Insights on Professional Identification and Licensure from Community Practice Social Workers
This article describes a qualitative study designed to explore both how community practice social workers identify professionally and to examine their view towards professional regulation. Thirty-five MSW-level social workers in a large metropolitan region who self-identified as community practice social worker participated in in-depth interviews. The respondents shared their views regarding professional identification as social workers and the i…
The Federal Commitment to Homelessness Prevention
In the midst of the 2007–2009 economic crisis, the federal government altered its response to homelessness in significant ways. After years of providing services and support to individuals and families who were homeless, in 2009 the government bolstered its response and for the first time provided significant resources to prevent homelessness. The purpose of this article is to provide an explanation of the significant shift in federal homelessnes…
Child Protective Services and the Achievement Gap
Capitalizing on Collapse
A well-documented consequence of the recent foreclosure crisis was a pronounced dislocation in the single-family home market. Large institutional buyers emerged to capitalize on this dislocation. These firms acquired hundreds of thousands of single-family homes to create a pool of single-family rentals (SFRs) in markets across the United States. Existing analyses of institutional investors focus on their aggregate characteristics and associated c…
Insights on Professional Identification and Licensure from Community Practice Social Workers
This article describes a qualitative study designed to explore both how community practice social workers identify professionally and to examine their view towards professional regulation. Thirty-five MSW-level social workers in a large metropolitan region who self-identified as community practice social worker participated in in-depth interviews. The respondents shared their views regarding professional identification as social workers and the i…
Rent burden and the Great Recession in the USA
In the aftermath of the recent recession, the percentage of households facing rent burden in the USA reached historically high levels, while cost burden for owners has shrunk. This study uses two panels from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to compare the prevalence, distribution and household responses to the phenomenon of rent burden in the USA in the years immediately before and after the Great Recession. Results suggest t…
Child Protective Services and the Achievement Gap
The dynamics of housing cost burden among renters in the United States
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…
The use of markets in housing policy
Many countries use demand-side housing subsidies to support low-income households. Unlike public or social housing programs, demand-side subsidies require recipients to enter the private market to use their benefits. The focus of this study is the experiences of assisted households in the private housing market and the outcomes they achieve. Given the link between policy design and program outcomes and because all housing subsidy programs are not…
The effect of market conditions on the housing outcomes of subsidized households
Since being created in the 1970s, housing vouchers have become the primary mode of federal housing support for low-income households in the US. The voucher programme was designed to provide recipients with the mobility needed to secure higher quality housing in neighbourhoods of their choice. Decades of analysis suggest that the programme has failed to produce the favourable outcomes envisioned by policymakers. To add to our understanding of the …
Racial disparity in exposure to housing cost burden in the United States
This paper uses the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to analyze Black-White differences in housing cost burden exposure among renter households in the United States from 1980 to 2017, expanding understanding of this phenomenon in two respects. Specifically, we document how much this racial disparity changed among renters over almost four decades and identify how much factors associated with income or housing costs explain Black-White inequality in …
Constraints and opportunities for innovation in the Moving to Work Demonstration Program
The Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration Program provides participating housing agencies with additional programmatic and operational flexibility that is used to achieve Congress’s statutory goals. The MTW Demonstration Program is designed to provide agencies with the flexibility to pursue innovative activities, yet there are myriad constraints that alter the behavior of these agencies. This study uses evidence generated from interviews with person…
Exploring the association between household compositional change and mobility of subsidized householders in the United States
This study examines the relationship between household compositional change and residential mobility of subsidized householders. Data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Annual Longitudinal Files 2005-2018 is used to measure household compositional change and mobility for subsidized householders in the Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher programs. Householders are 67% more likely to move when a change in household comp…
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children's well-being and health
How do single-family homeowners value residential and commercial density? It depends
The Federal Commitment to Homelessness Prevention
In the midst of the 2007–2009 economic crisis, the federal government altered its response to homelessness in significant ways. After years of providing services and support to individuals and families who were homeless, in 2009 the government bolstered its response and for the first time provided significant resources to prevent homelessness. The purpose of this article is to provide an explanation of the significant shift in federal homelessnes…
The Federal Commitment to Homelessness Prevention
In the midst of the 2007–2009 economic crisis, the federal government altered its response to homelessness in significant ways. After years of providing services and support to individuals and families who were homeless, in 2009 the government bolstered its response and for the first time provided significant resources to prevent homelessness. The purpose of this article is to provide an explanation of the significant shift in federal homelessnes…
Child Protective Services and the Achievement Gap
Insights on Professional Identification and Licensure from Community Practice Social Workers
This article describes a qualitative study designed to explore both how community practice social workers identify professionally and to examine their view towards professional regulation. Thirty-five MSW-level social workers in a large metropolitan region who self-identified as community practice social worker participated in in-depth interviews. The respondents shared their views regarding professional identification as social workers and the i…
Rent burden and the Great Recession in the USA
In the aftermath of the recent recession, the percentage of households facing rent burden in the USA reached historically high levels, while cost burden for owners has shrunk. This study uses two panels from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to compare the prevalence, distribution and household responses to the phenomenon of rent burden in the USA in the years immediately before and after the Great Recession. Results suggest t…
Constraints and opportunities for innovation in the Moving to Work Demonstration Program
The Moving to Work (MTW) Demonstration Program provides participating housing agencies with additional programmatic and operational flexibility that is used to achieve Congress’s statutory goals. The MTW Demonstration Program is designed to provide agencies with the flexibility to pursue innovative activities, yet there are myriad constraints that alter the behavior of these agencies. This study uses evidence generated from interviews with person…
The effect of market conditions on the housing outcomes of subsidized households
Since being created in the 1970s, housing vouchers have become the primary mode of federal housing support for low-income households in the US. The voucher programme was designed to provide recipients with the mobility needed to secure higher quality housing in neighbourhoods of their choice. Decades of analysis suggest that the programme has failed to produce the favourable outcomes envisioned by policymakers. To add to our understanding of the …
The use of markets in housing policy
Many countries use demand-side housing subsidies to support low-income households. Unlike public or social housing programs, demand-side subsidies require recipients to enter the private market to use their benefits. The focus of this study is the experiences of assisted households in the private housing market and the outcomes they achieve. Given the link between policy design and program outcomes and because all housing subsidy programs are not…
Capitalizing on Collapse
A well-documented consequence of the recent foreclosure crisis was a pronounced dislocation in the single-family home market. Large institutional buyers emerged to capitalize on this dislocation. These firms acquired hundreds of thousands of single-family homes to create a pool of single-family rentals (SFRs) in markets across the United States. Existing analyses of institutional investors focus on their aggregate characteristics and associated c…
Hotels as Noncongregate Emergency Shelters
This study analyzes the COVID-19 homelessness response in King County, Washington, in which people were moved out of high-density emergency shelters into hotel rooms. This intervention was part of a regional effort to de-intensify the shelter system and limit the transmission of the virus to protect vulnerable individuals experiencing homelessness. This study used quantitative and qualitative methods to describe the experiences of and outcomes on…
Neoliberal housing policy
Neoliberal housing policy: An international perspective, by Keith Jacobs." Journal of Urban Affairs, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Racial disparity in exposure to housing cost burden in the United States
This paper uses the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to analyze Black-White differences in housing cost burden exposure among renter households in the United States from 1980 to 2017, expanding understanding of this phenomenon in two respects. Specifically, we document how much this racial disparity changed among renters over almost four decades and identify how much factors associated with income or housing costs explain Black-White inequality in …
How do single-family homeowners value residential and commercial density? It depends
The dynamics of housing cost burden among renters in the United States
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…
Exploring the association between household compositional change and mobility of subsidized householders in the United States
This study examines the relationship between household compositional change and residential mobility of subsidized householders. Data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Annual Longitudinal Files 2005-2018 is used to measure household compositional change and mobility for subsidized householders in the Public Housing and Housing Choice Voucher programs. Householders are 67% more likely to move when a change in household comp…
Cumulative housing cost burden exposures and disadvantages to children's well-being and health
Subsidy Overlaps in Federal Housing Policy
There is limited and incomplete empirical evidence that documents the extent of overlap, or layering, between federal housing programs, including supply-side subsidies, such as the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC), and demand-side rental assistance. Importantly, we know little about how the overlap varies by time, by geography, and in different housing market conditions. This project uses administrative data collected by federal agencies and…
What Would It Take to End Homelessness in the United States
Ending homelessness in the United States has remained stubbornly out of reach. Despite hundreds of federal, state, and local plans to end homelessness, most have ended unsuccessfully—due to a range of issues, notably insufficient resources. Homelessness persists and, in many communities, has increased because of myriad intervening factors—many of which lie outside the control of the systems tasked with solving it. This paper summarizes the eviden…
Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (11 works) · Economics (10 works) · Housing Market and Economics (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (8 works) · Economic growth (7 works) · Demographic economics (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works) · Medicine (5 works)