Abstract The Great Recession and the unfolding COVID-19 Pandemic Recession—two
major disruptions to the economy that occurred just one decade apart—unequivocally …

The 2007–08 financial crisis caused a deep global recession with lasting effects on
economies worldwide. Millions of households in developed countries currently report having …

Housing affordability has been decreasing worldwide, particularly in the advanced
economies, in recent decades. A fast-growing body of literature on housing affordability …

Millions of households face housing affordability problems as house prices and rents rise
faster than incomes. Yet little is known about how high housing expenditures affect well …

We investigate household financial fragility in Italy, providing three main contributions. First,
we propose a novel characterization of financial fragility that is not necessarily linked to …

The share of income that households spent on their housing has been increasing over time
in a wide range of countries, particularly among lower income households. In theory, the …

Excessive housing costs not only cause housing problems but also various social problems.
To remedy the increasing burden of housing costs, South Korea has implemented several …

Executive summary A large body of research has now examined the impact of the COVID-19
pandemic on family and intimate partner violence (IPV; Bourgault et al., 2021; Peterman …

This article uses the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to analyse Black–White differences in
housing cost burden exposure among renter households in the USA from 1980 to 2017 …

Scholarly work on rent burden, a rather scantily discussed topic within the broader realm of
declining housing affordability, still lacks a firm theory. This article seeks to address this gap …