Housing Discrimination
HoAllyson Jones
Housing and Society
Due: October 11, 2012
Dr. Joyner
Housing, Neighborhoods and Health Disparities
Corina Graif, PhD, RWJF Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Many aspects of internal housing conditions are known to affect health. Limited but important evidence also exists on the health implications of the socio-spatial context of housing. For instance, fear of crime, crowding, neighborhood disadvantage, social exclusion, and residents’ social exchange are linked to cardiovascular and mental health, obesity, diabetes and low birth weight. In my dissertation work and related projects, I ask questions about the spatial context of neighborhood effects to investigate how the urban geography of inequality and cumulative spatial disadvantage shape the health and well-being of the inner-city poor. Several important questions about the neighborhood and spatial context aspect of housing remain critical to ask in our quest to understand and act on the constellation of factors shaping health outcomes:
a) How do different spatially salient markers (such as nearby presence of crime hotspots; community health centers; daycare) interact with the neighborhood context in shaping health outcomes, employment, and health care.
f) To what extent moving low income families to high quality neighborhoods increases or decreases their access to health related resources and critical social networks and jobs? Read more about Moving to Opportunity and how neighborhoods impact residents’ health. http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/human-capital-blog/2012/01/housing-neighborhoods-and-health-disparities.html RACIAL DISPARITY STILL HAUNTS HOUSING MARKET
July 3, 2003
By Anders Hoerlyck
IN THEORY, the American housing market is free and open. The report found that high-interest loans, many of which are illegal, are three times more likely in low- income neighborhoods than in high-income areas, and five times more likely in black
Housing and Society
Due: October 11, 2012
Dr. Joyner
Housing, Neighborhoods and Health Disparities
Corina Graif, PhD, RWJF Health & Society Scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Many aspects of internal housing conditions are known to affect health. Limited but important evidence also exists on the health implications of the socio-spatial context of housing. For instance, fear of crime, crowding, neighborhood disadvantage, social exclusion, and residents’ social exchange are linked to cardiovascular and mental health, obesity, diabetes and low birth weight. In my dissertation work and related projects, I ask questions about the spatial context of neighborhood effects to investigate how the urban geography of inequality and cumulative spatial disadvantage shape the health and well-being of the inner-city poor. Several important questions about the neighborhood and spatial context aspect of housing remain critical to ask in our quest to understand and act on the constellation of factors shaping health outcomes:
a) How do different spatially salient markers (such as nearby presence of crime hotspots; community health centers; daycare) interact with the neighborhood context in shaping health outcomes, employment, and health care.
f) To what extent moving low income families to high quality neighborhoods increases or decreases their access to health related resources and critical social networks and jobs? Read more about Moving to Opportunity and how neighborhoods impact residents’ health. http://www.rwjf.org/en/blogs/human-capital-blog/2012/01/housing-neighborhoods-and-health-disparities.html RACIAL DISPARITY STILL HAUNTS HOUSING MARKET
July 3, 2003
By Anders Hoerlyck
IN THEORY, the American housing market is free and open. The report found that high-interest loans, many of which are illegal, are three times more likely in low- income neighborhoods than in high-income areas, and five times more likely in black
Links: Towns get new deadline for affordable housing July 01, 2004 HUD program to target jobs for poor residents November 23, 1993|By Eric Siegel | Eric Siegel, Staff Writer Minnesota Public Radio September 17, 2002 Environ Health Perspect. 2005 May; 113(5): A310–A317 PMCID: PMC1257572 Environews Focus