Housing cost burden, defined as the percentage of income spent on rent/mortgage and utilities, is a growing problem as rents, mortgage interest rates, electricity, and gas costs have all increased exponentially. Many studies on housing cost burden and housing precarity focus on families' overall housing costs, leaving an important component of housing precarity—energy bills—unexplored. The purpose of this study is to understand the relationship between energy burdens, rent burdens, eviction filings, and neighborhood characteristics. Using cross-sectional Census tract level data from the Department of Energy, the American Community Survey, and Princeton University's Eviction Lab, we employ regression and mediation models to identify the relationship between energy burdens, rent burdens, and eviction filings and how these relationships change across neighborhood characteristics. We find average neighborhood energy burden is positively and significantly associated with eviction filing rates, holding rent burden constant. Both energy and rent burdens function are significant but substantively small mediators of the relationship between neighborhood poverty/race and eviction filing rates. Therefore, we encourage policymakers and advocates to consider coordinating housing and energy assistance opportunities, agencies to collect longitudinal data, and scholars to continue to disentangle the effects of various housing costs on outcomes, including evictions.

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住房成本并不是一个整体：社区能源负担与驱逐申请率之间的关联

住房成本负担（定义为用于租金/抵押贷款和公用事业的收入占收入的百分比）是一个日益严重的问题，因为租金、抵押贷款利率、电力和天然气成本都呈指数级增长。许多关于住房成本负担和住房不稳定的研究都关注家庭的总体住房成本，而没有探讨住房不稳定的一个重要组成部分——能源费用。本研究的目的是了解能源负担、租金负担、驱逐申请和社区特征之间的关系。使用来自能源部、美国社区调查和普林斯顿大学驱逐实验室的横截面人口普查区数据，我们采用回归和中介模型来确定能源负担、租金负担和驱逐申请之间的关系以及这些关系如何变化跨越邻里特征。我们发现，在租金负担不变的情况下，平均社区能源负担与驱逐申请率呈正相关且显着相关。能源和租金负担对于社区贫困/种族与驱逐申请率之间的关系起着重要但实质上较小的调节作用。因此，我们鼓励政策制定者和倡导者考虑协调住房和能源援助机会，鼓励各机构收集纵向数据，鼓励学者继续理清各种住房成本对包括驱逐在内的结果的影响。