CoC housing vacancy rents

Builds gross and rental vacancy rates.

build_coc_vacancy_rates(year, tract_crosswalk)

Arguments

year	A numeric with the year of the data.
tract_crosswalk	A data frame with a census tract to CoC crosswalk from build_tract_crosswalk().

Value

A data frame with the rental vacancy rates:

• coc_number: CoC number (character)

• year: Year (numeric)

• gross_vacancy_rate: Share of all housing units that are unoccupied (numeric)

• rental_vacancy_rate: Share of rental housing units not rented (numeric)

Definitions

Gross vacancy rate = all unoccupied housing units / all housing units

Rental vacancy rate = unoccupied rental units that are for rent / (occupied rental units + unoccupied rental units that are for rent + rented units that are unoccupied)