ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2020
Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts.
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- The impact of housing prices on residents' health: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2024Pooled it
- Testing the Risk of Child Hyperactivity-Inattention Problems in Families Living with Housing-cost Burden during the COVID-19 Pandemic.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- The impact of historical redlining policies on community composition and the COVID-19 pandemic in Boston.PloS one · 2025Article
- Eviction as a community health exposure.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2024Review
- The Structure of Pandemic Vulnerability: Housing Wealth, Residential Segregation, and COVID‑19 Mortality.Population research and policy review · 2023Article
- Social Determinants of Disease: HIV and COVID-19 Experiences.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2022Review
- Investigating a key structural determinant of health, racism, and related social determinants of health in Massachusetts during the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2022Article
- Overcrowding and COVID-19 mortality across U.S. counties: Are disparities growing over time?SSM - population health · 2021Article
- Housing at the frontline of the COVID-19 challenge: A commentary on "Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts".Social science & medicine (1982) · 2020Article
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Abstract
We explore whether housing displacement pressure could help explain place-based disparities in Massachusetts COVID-19 prevalence. We use qualitative data from the Healthy Neighborhoods Study to illustrate how rising and unaffordable housing costs are experienced by residents in municipalities disproportionately affected by COVID-19. We then predict municipal-level COVID-19 case rates as a function of home value increases and housing cost burden prevalence among low-income households, controlling for previously identified community-level risk factors. We find that housing value increase predicts higher COVID-19 case rates, but that associations are ameliorated in areas with higher home values. Qualitative data highlight crowding, "doubling up," homelessness, and employment responses as mechanisms that might link housing displacement pressure to COVID-19 prevalence.
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