ArticlePreventive medicine2023
Rental assistance improves food security and nutrition: An analysis of National Survey Data.
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- Rental assistance impacts on diabetes: Insights from a longitudinal mixed-methods analysis.SSM. Qualitative research in health · 2026Article
- Improving Population Health Through Housing Policy: Lessons From the Public Housing Program.The Milbank quarterly · 2026Article
- Trajectories of food insecurity for low wage workers from 2018 to 2022.Discover public health · 2026Article
- Impact of housing allowance programme on the physical and mental health of households in South Korea.PloS one · 2026Article
- Federal Housing Assistance and Stage at Cancer Diagnosis Among Older Adults in the US.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Childhood Food Insecurity Trajectories and Adult Weight and Self-Reported Health.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Article
- Beyond Food Assistance: A Scoping Review Examining Associations of Nonfood Social Safety Net Programs in the United States With Food Insecurity and Nutrition Outcomes.Nutrition reviews · 2025Article
- Do Rental Assistance Programs Relieve Overcrowding for Children?Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2025Article
- SNAP Emergency Allotments, Emergency Rent Assistance, Rent Burden, and Housing and Food Security, June 2022-May 2023.Preventing chronic disease · 2024Article
- Association Between Rental Assistance Programs and Undiagnosed Diabetes Among U.S.Journal of general internal medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
The U.S. is experiencing a severe housing affordability crisis, resulting in households having to make difficult trade-offs between paying for a place to live and basic health necessities such as food. Rental assistance may mitigate these strains, improving food security and nutrition. However, only one in five eligible individuals receive assistance, with an average wait time of two years. Existing waitlists create a comparable control group, allowing us to examine the causal impact of improved housing access on health and well-being. This national quasi-experimental study utilizes linked NHANES-HUD data (1999-2016) to investigate the impacts of rental assistance on food security and nutrition using cross-sectional regression. Tenants with project-based assistance were less likely to experience food insecurity (B = -0.18, p = 0.02) and rent-assisted individuals consumed 0.23 more cups of daily fruits and vegetables compared the pseudo-waitlist group. These findings suggest that the current unmet need for rental assistance and resulting long waitlists have adverse health implications, including decreased food security and fruit and vegetable consumption.
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