Rebecca Baird-Remba

Rebecca Baird-Remba appears in Two indicators for lowering the rent as the source explaining the rise, disappearance, and possible revival of Single-Room Occupancy Housing. The episode uses her to report that New York City had more than 200,000 SRO units in the 1950s, more than 10% of the city’s rental stock.

Her contribution is historical and policy-oriented. She connects late-19th-century urban demand to cheap rooming-house supply, then links later rule changes, landlord conversion incentives, and social pressure to SRO Regulatory Erasure and SRO Loss And Homelessness.

Connections

• Single-Room Occupancy Housing - central housing form she explains.
• SRO Regulatory Erasure - historical decline mechanism she helps trace.
• SRO Loss And Homelessness - homelessness connection tied to her reporting.
• Shared Housing Revival - present policy direction the episode asks about.