About

Christopher B. Aiken, MD, is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. He holds an MD degree from Yale University. His research and professional focus include the bipolar spectrum, mood disorders, and neuroprotection in psychiatric conditions such as bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and cognitive disorders. Dr. Aiken has authored several publications on bipolar disorder, mood swings, depression, and neuroprotection, contributing to the understanding and management of these mental health conditions. His work involves modeling, measuring, and managing bipolar disorder, as well as developing clinician-rated measures of diagnostic confidence.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Business
• Sociology
• Economics
• Gender studies
• Anthropology
• Finance
• Public relations
• Marketing
• Economic growth
• Psychology

Selected publications

• Public Development and the Promise of Social Housing: Assessing New Government-Led Housing Models in the U.S.

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026-01-01

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  Housing Policy Debate · 2024-07-03

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• Local Variation in Emergency Rental Assistance Program Design and Implementation

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2024-01-01 · 2 citations

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  Housing Policy Debate · 2024-05-03

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  Housing Policy Debate · 2024-01-02

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  Every January, the US endeavors to count all of the individuals experiencing homelessness on a given night (General Definition of Homeless Individual, 1987).Local agencies called Continuums of Care tally up everyone residing in emergency shelters and transitional housing within their service areas, and send out volunteers to document people sheltering in cars or tents and other places "not designed for or ordinarily used as a regular sleeping accommodation for human beings" (42 USC § 11302).Last year, more than 580,000 people were experiencing homelessness according to this count-a record high (National Alliance to End Homelessness (NAEH), 2023).And yet this number is almost certainly an underestimate (people experiencing unsheltered homelessness might reasonably prefer to avoid public detection).Neither does it recognize forms of severe housing insecurity that might be considered homelessness under another definition (such as doubling up or sleeping in a motel).In countries around the world, there is much to learn about who experiences homelessness, in what way, and how best to serve them.As we embark on a new year of enumerating and fighting homelessness, this focus issue of Housing Policy Debate gathers nine articles shedding light on these efforts.The issue can be split roughly into two halves, beginning with a set of articles that try to better understand the experience of homelessness.

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  Housing Policy Debate · 2023-06-02

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  Housing Policy Debate · 2023-08-29

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• Administrative Burdens in Emergency Rental Assistance Programs

  RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences · 2023 · 32 citations

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  Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, localities across the United States have been given unprecedented short-term rental assistance funding and considerable flexibility in its distribution. The emergency nature of these programs suggests that the administrative burden placed on participants should be lower than in typical rental assistance programs such as the housing choice voucher program. Yet there are several features unique to housing, such as the double take-up challenge of engaging both tenants and landlords, that persist. This article draws on national surveys of more than two hundred emergency rental assistance programs, surveys of thousands of tenant and landlord applicants, and interviews with ten program administrators to investigate the degree and sources of administrative burdens in these programs.

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  Housing Policy Debate · 2023-04-27

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  Housing Policy Debate was originally established by Fannie Mae, a

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  Housing Policy Debate · 2023-10-27

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  Within the last two decades, renting has become a much more popular way of accessing housing in the United States.Nearly 10 million more American households rented their homes in 2022 than in 2002, and renters now make up more than 34% of the whole.Growing rentership has been accompanied by a dwindling supply of low-cost rentals, and a rising share of households that carry severe rent burdens (Joint Center for Housing Studies, 2023).The COVID-19 pandemic further destabilized the market, suddenly interrupting income for many renters (and consequently for their landlords), but also ushering in bold interventions such as eviction moratoria.This issue of Housing Policy Debate features the latest research on rental housing in the United States and has implications for rental housing policy at every level of government.Three articles set the stage by interrogating how rental affordability is measured and experienced.In "'The Rent Eats First': Rental Housing Unaffordability in the United States," Whitney Airgood-Obrycki, Alexander Hermann, and Sophia Wedeen ask how many renter households we would consider to be living in unaffordable housing if we calculated residual income (money left over after paying for rent) rather than the traditional rent-burden formula.They find that millions of American households (especially those with children) cannot cover basic nonhousing expenses after paying rent, even if they are not rent burdened per se.Matthew Brooks' "Measuring America's Affordability Problem" complements this analysis, calculating a wide array of affordability measures and examining how some measures mute or amplify racial disparities in access to affordable housing.Finally, Jovanna Rosen, Victoria Ciudad-Real, Sean Angst, and Gary Painter follow with "Rental Affordability, Coping Strategies, and Impacts in Diverse Immigrant Communities," drawing on focus groups to understand the special constraints that keep immigrant and refugee households in unaffordable rental housing.A second set of articles examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected renters, landlords, and rental housing policy in the United States.Michael Manville, Paavo Monkkonen, Michael Lens, and Richard Green, in "Renter Nonpayment and Landlord Response: Evidence from COVID-19," find that tenants who missed rent payments in the first year of the pandemic usually did so because they had lost work or income (not because they were withholding rent to pay for other things).Eviction threats were rare during this time, but small landlords were the most likely to threaten delinquent tenants with eviction.Eric Seymour adds to the evidence base with "Corporate Landlords and Pandemic and Prepandemic Evictions in Las Vegas."Like Manville and colleagues, Seymour finds that smaller landlords were often more likely to evict tenants during the pandemic than their larger, corporate peers.The worst offenders in Las Vegas, though, are extended-stay properties, which evicted at high rates before the pandemic and simply accelerated evictions once COVID-19 struck.We next turn to the federal and state response with "COVID-19 Housing

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Frequent coauthors

• Vincent Reina

  California University of Pennsylvania

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• Rebecca Yae

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• Ingrid Gould Ellen

  New York University

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• Isabel Harner

  University of Pennsylvania

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• Dennis P. Culhane

  University of Pennsylvania

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• Tyler Haupert

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• Andrew Aurand

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• C.S. Kim

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