Longitudinal Design Analysis
My research design will be applying the longitudinal design and focusing on the last 10-20 years, depending on the availability of the data. Longitudinal design would be the best method to find the relationship between private housing rent and household homelessness overtime. The dependent variable will be the household homelessness and independent variable will be the increasing private housing rent. Other contributing factors will be controlled in order to find whether there is a cause-and-effect relationship between the treatment subject itself (increasing rent) and the increasing household homelessness.
Three main indicators that I have identified and can be used as a proxy for housing rent are the housing rental price index, median rent,