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The Health Status of HOPE VI Public Housing Residents

Embry M. Howell, Laura E. Harris, Susan J. Popkin

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Posted to Web: May 01, 2005

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This study provides new data on the relationship between housing quality and health status for people in five HOPE VI public housing developments around the country. HOPE VI is a program to remove and replace or redevelop some of the poorest quality public housing in the country. A special survey of residents of these developments was conducted while they lived in HOPE VI housing before its redevelopment. The health status of HOPE VI residents is decidedly worse than for others in assisted housing and other poor people, despite their similarity in terms of economic deprivation. The difference in the level of asthma prevalence, a condition that has been tied to various measures of housing quality, is especially pronounced. Our analysis indicates that one major benefit of improving housing quality may be improved health status. (Howell, Embry, Harris, Laura and Popkin, Susan. May 2005. "The Health Status of HOPE VI Public Housing Residents." Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved 16(2):273-285.)

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