ArticleHousing studies2020
Built Environment Exposures of Adults in the Moving to Opportunity Experiment.
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- The association of neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics with cardiovascular health: A quasi-experimental study of refugees to Denmark.Health & place · 2023Trial
- The role of the built environment, food prices and neighborhood poverty in fruit and vegetable consumption: An instrumental variable analysis of the moving to opportunity experiment.Health & place · 2021Trial
- A good move for health?: Analyzing urban exposure trajectories of residential relocation and mental health in populations in Bradford.Environmental epidemiology (Philadelphia, Pa.) · 2025Article
- Cancer beliefs and screening behaviors: The impact of neighborhood and other social determinants of health.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Article
- Effects of Housing Vouchers on the Long-Term Exposure to Neighborhood Opportunity among Low-Income Families: The Moving to Opportunity Experiment.Housing studies · 2023Article
- Long-Term Residential Environment Exposure and Subjective Wellbeing in Later Life in Guangzhou, China: Moderated by Residential Mobility History.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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Abstract
This paper describes environmental exposures of adult participants in the Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing (MTO) experiment over a four to seven year period from baseline to the interim evaluation. The MTO experiment randomized participants living in public housing or private assisted housing at baseline into experimental and control groups and provided a housing voucher for experimental group participants to move to neighborhoods with less than 10 percent of the population below the poverty line. However, few studies have examined how this move affected exposures to health promoting environments. We used data on residential locations of MTO participants and archival data on the built and food environment to construct environmental exposure variables. MTO participants in the experimental and Section 8 groups lived in neighborhoods with higher food prices, less high intensity development and more open space relative to the control group. The findings suggest that housing policies can have potential health consequences by altering health-related environmental exposures.
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