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Associations between inspections for unsafe housing conditions and evictions in New York City public housing buildings.
Sonik, Rajan Anthony; Herrera, Ana L.
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  • Sonik RA; AltaMed Institute for Health Equity, AltaMed Health Services, 2035 Camfield Ave, 3rd Floor, 90040, Los Angeles, CA, United States. rsonik@altamed.org.
  • Herrera AL; Strategic Prevention Solutions, Oakland, CA, United States.
J Community Health ; 47(5): 849-852, 2022 10.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35794300
Poor housing conditions and evictions are both associated with poor physical and mental health outcomes, such as increased risks for cardiovascular disease, depression, and injuries. However, the relationship between these two negative housing outcomes has received little quantitative study, including in public housing where exposure to these factors and to negative health outcomes are elevated. We therefore sought to examine the relationship between evictions and formal housing safety inspections triggered by tenant complains about poor conditions. We estimated a hierarchical logistic regression model assessing associations between housing quality inspections and evictions using data from January 2017 and March 2020 on 3,746 residential buildings within 299 New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments, adjusting for development size, funding type, and area-level social vulnerability indicators. The average Social Vulnerability Index percentile for the buildings included in this study was 0.90 (SD = 0.12), indicating that these buildings were in areas with greater social vulnerability than 90% of other census tracts in the state. Adjusted predicted probabilities of an eviction increased from 34 to 43% in the presence of a rodent inspection and from 34 to 46% in the presence of an indoor environmental inspection (p < 0.001 for both), indicating that inspections for unsafe housing conditions were associated with evictions at the building level. Substandard housing quality and evictions are important public health concerns. Policies to enhance protections for tenants against both of these social ills simultaneously may be needed to improve community health outcomes.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Habitação Popular / Habitação Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limite: Humans País/Região como assunto: America do norte Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Habitação Popular / Habitação Tipo de estudo: Prognostic_studies / Risk_factors_studies Limite: Humans País/Região como assunto: America do norte Idioma: En Ano de publicação: 2022 Tipo de documento: Article