Housing Affordability and Health: Evidence From New York City

Housing Policy Debate

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 80-104

  Meltzer, Rachel ^a   Schwartz, Alex ^a  

^a NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Affordable housing; health and housing; housing cost burden

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928675092     PISSN: 10511482     EISSN: 2152050X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10511482.2015.1020321     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. D.E.Alley,, B.J.Soldo,, J.A.Pagán,, J.McCabe,, M.deBlois,, S.H.Field,, & C.… Cannuscio, (2009). Material resources and population health: Disadvantages in health care, housing, and food among adults over 50 years of age. American Journal of Public Health, 99, S693–S701. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.161877.
2. E.Baker,, K.Mason,, R.Bentley,, & S.Mallett, (2011). Evidence on the relationship between unaffordable housing and poor health. Melbourne: State of Australian Cities National Conference.
3. R.Bentley,, E.Baker,, & K.Mason, (2012). Cumulative exposure to poor housing affordability and its association with mental health in men and women. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 66, 761–766. doi:10.1136/jech-2011-200291.
4. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (2014). Facts about mold and dampness. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/mold/dampness_facts.htm.
5. R.Cohen, (2011). The impacts of affordable housing on health: A research summary. Washington, DC: Center for Housing Policy.
6. R.D.Cohn,, S.J.Arbes, Jr.,, R.Jaramillo,, L.H.Reid,, & D.C.Zeldin, (2005). National prevalence and exposure risk for cockroach allergen in U.S. households. Environmental Health Perspectives, 114, 522–526. doi:10.1289/ehp.8561.
7. M.A.Curtis,, H.Corman,, K.Noonan,, & N.E.Reichman, (2010). Effects of child health on housing in the urban U.S. Social Science & Medicine, 71, 2049–2056. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.09.034.
8. D.B.Cutts,, A.F.Meyers,, M.M.Black,, P.H.Casey,, M.Chilton,, J.T.Cook,, & D.A.… Frank, (2011). U.S. housing insecurity and the health of very young children. American Journal of Public Health, 101, 1508–1514. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300139.
9. J.R.Dunn, (2000). Housing and health inequalities: Review and prospects for research. Housing Studies, 15, 341–366. doi:10.1080/02673030050009221.
10. Furman Center. (2011). State of New York City's subsidized housing: 2011. New York, NY: Author.
11. D.E.Jacobs,, R.P.Clickner,, J.Y.Zhou,, S.M.Viet,, D.A.Marker,, J.W.Rogers,, & W.… Friedman, (2002). The prevalence of lead-based paint hazards in U.S. housing. Environmental Health Perspectives, 110, A599–A606. doi:10.1289/ehp.021100599.
12. Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University. (2012). State of the nation's housing 2012. Cambridge, MA: Author.
13. J.Krieger,, & D.L.Higgins, (2002). Housing and health: Time again for public health action. American Journal of Public Health, 92, 758–768. doi:10.2105/AJPH.92.5.758.
14. N.Krieger,, J.T.Chen,, P.D.Waterman,, D.H.Rehkopf,, & S.V.Subramanian, (2003). Race/ethnicity, gender, and monitoring socioeconomic gradients in health: A comparison of area-based socioeconomic measures—the public health disparities geocoding project. American Journal of Public Health, 93, 1655–1671. doi:10.2105/AJPH.93.10.1655.
15. M.B.Kushel,, R.Gupta,, L.Gee,, & J.S.Haas, (2006). Housing instability and food insecurity as barriers to health care among low-income Americans. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 21, 71–77. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1497.2005.00278.x.
16. T.Kyle,, & J.R.Dunn, (2008). Effects of housing circumstances on health, quality of life and healthcare use for people with severe mental illness: A review. Health and Social Care in the Community, 16(1), 1–15. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2524.2007.00723.x.
17. L.B.Lewis,, D.C.Sloane,, L.M.Nascimento,, A.L.Diamant,, J.J.Guinyard,, A.Yancey,, & G.Flynn, (2005). African Americans' access to healthy food options in South Los Angeles restaurants. American Journal of Public Health, 95, 668–673. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2004.050260.
18. J.Lubell,, R.Morley,, M.Ashe,, & L.Merola, (2011). Housing and health: New opportunities for dialogue and action. Washington, DC: National Center for Healthy Housing.
19. J.Ludwig,, G.J.Duncan,, L.A.Gennetian,, L.F.Katz,, R.C.Kessler,, J.R.Kling,, & L.Sanbonmatsu, (2012). Neighborhood effects on the long-term well-being of low-income adults. Science, 337, 1505–1510. doi:10.1126/science.1224648.
20. K.E.Mason,, E.Baker,, T.Blakely,, & R.J.Bentley, (2013). Housing affordability and mental health: Does the relationship differ for renters and home purchasers?Social Science & Medicine, 94, 91–97. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.06.023.
21. R.Miles,, & D.E.Jacobs, (2008). Future directions in housing and public health: Findings from Europe with broader implications for planners. Journal of the American Planning Association, 74, 77–89. doi:10.1080/01944360701784287.
22. T.M.Milstead,, R.Miles,, & N.Röbbel, (2006). Housing and neighborhood conditions and exposure to cockroaches in three central and eastern European cities. Housing and the Built Environment, 21, 397–411. doi:10.1007/s10901-006-9057-2.
23. M.E.Northridge,, E.D.Sclar,, & P.Biswas, (2003). Sorting out the connections between the built environment and health: A conceptual framework for navigating pathways and planning healthy cities. Journal of Urban Health: Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 80, 556–568.
24. C.E.Pollack,, B.A.Griffin,, & J.Lynch, (2010). Housing affordability and health among homeowners and renters. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 39, 515–521. doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2010.08.002.
25. C.E.Pollack,, & J.Lynch, (2009). Health status of people undergoing foreclosure in the Philadelphia region. American Journal of Public Health, 99, 1833–1839. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2009.161380.
26. D.L.Rosenstreich,, P.Eggleston,, M.Kattan,, D.Baker,, R.G.Slavin,, P.Gergen,, & F.… Malveaux, (1997). The role of cockroach allergy and exposure to cockroach allergen in causing morbidity among inner-city children with asthma. New England Journal of Medicine, 336, 1356–1363. doi:10.1056/NEJM199705083361904.
27. S.C.Saegert,, S.Klitzman,, N.Freudenberg,, J.C.Cooperman-Mroczek,, & S.Nassar, (2003). Healthy housing: A structured review of published evaluations of US interventions to improve health by modifying housing in the United States, 1990–2001. American Journal of Public Health, 93, 1471–1477. doi:10.2105/AJPH.93.9.1471.
28. E.D.Shenassa,, C.Daskalakis,, A.Liebhaber,, M.Braubach,, & M.Brown, (2007). Dampness and mold in the home and depression: An examination of mold-related illness and perceived control of one's home as possible depression pathways. American Journal of Public Health, 97, 1893–1899. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2006.093773.
29. U.S. Census Bureau. (2013). New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey, 2011. Retrieved from http://www.census.gov/housing/nychvs/.
30. U.S. Census Bureau. (2014). American Housing Survey, 2011. Retrieved from http://www.census.gov/housing/ahs/data/national.html.
31. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2013). Health, United States, 2013. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus13.pdf.
32. I.H.Yen,, W.Powell Hammond,, & M.B.Kushel, (2009). From homeless to hopeless and healthless?: The health impacts of housing challenges among former foster care youth transitioning to adulthood in California. Issues in Comprehensive Pediatric Nursing, 32, 77–93. doi:10.1080/01460860902740982.