SynthesisPloS one2015
Home foreclosure, health, and mental health: a systematic review of individual, aggregate, and contextual associations.
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55 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Going upstream - an umbrella review of the macroeconomic determinants of health and health inequalities.BMC public health · 2019Pooled it
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- Hidden costs of unaffordable housing: Exploring the multidimensional and intersecting health effects on Black Americans.Journal of public health research · 2025Article
- Relationships between historical redlining, contemporary housing market dynamics, racial composition, and mental health in U.S. urban neighborhoods: A conditional process analysis.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Area-level credit scores and symptoms of depression and anxiety in adults.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Serious psychological distress among slum dwellers and unhoused people in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: a pilot study.Tropical medicine and health · 2025Article
- Associations between social determinants of health and mental health disorders among U.S. population: a cross-sectional study.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2025Article
- An Exploration of Rural Housing Insecurity as a Public Health Problem in California's Rural Northern Counties.Journal of community health · 2024Article
- Evictions and psychiatric treatment.Journal of policy analysis and management : [the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management] · 2024Article
- Associations between a Novel Measure of Census Tract-Level Credit Insecurity and Frequent Mental Distress in US Urban Areas, 2020.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2023Article
- Moving upstream: healthcare partnerships addressing social determinants of health through community wealth building.BMC public health · 2023Article
- In the wake of a crisis: Caught between housing and healthcare.SSM - population health · 2023Article
- Psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown among the population involved in tourism sector in Lakeside of Pokhara: A qualitative study.Health science reports · 2023Article
- Smoke-Free Policies and Resident Turnover: An Evaluation in Massachusetts Public Housing From 2009‒2018.American journal of preventive medicine · 2023Article
- Association Between State-Level Medicaid Expansion and Eviction Rates.JAMA network open · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe U.S. foreclosure crisis intensified markedly during the Great Recession of 2007-09, and currently an estimated five percent of U.S. residential properties are more than 90 days past due or in the process of foreclosure. Yet there has been no systematic assessment of the effects of foreclosure on health and mental health. METHODS AND
findingsI applied systematic search terms to PubMed and PsycINFO to identify quantitative or qualitative studies about the relationship between home foreclosure and health or mental health. After screening the titles and abstracts of 930 publications and reviewing the full text of 76 articles, dissertations, and other reports, I identified 42 publications representing 35 unique studies about foreclosure, health, and mental health. The majority of studies (32 [91%]) concluded that foreclosure had adverse effects on health or mental health, while three studies yielded null or mixed findings. Only two studies examined the extent to which foreclosure may have disproportionate impacts on ethnic or racial minority populations.
conclusionsHome foreclosure adversely affects health and mental health through channels operating at multiple levels: at the individual level, the stress of personally experiencing foreclosure was associated with worsened mental health and adverse health behaviors, which were in turn linked to poorer health status; at the community level, increasing degradation of the neighborhood environment had indirect, cross-level adverse effects on health and mental health. Early intervention may be able to prevent acute economic shocks from eventually developing into the chronic stress of foreclosure, with all of the attendant benefits this implies for health and mental health status. Programs designed to encourage early return of foreclosed properties back into productive use may have similar health and mental health benefits.
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