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Filling the Gaps in an Inadequate Housing Safety Net: The Experiences of Informal Housing Providers and Implications for Their Housing Security, Health, and Well-Being.
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- The Affordable Rental Housing Crisis and Population Health Equity: a Multidimensional and Multilevel Framework.Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine · 2023Review
- "A Little Bit of a Security Blanket": Renter Experiences with COVID-19-Era Eviction Moratoriums.The Social service review · 2023Article
- Structural Racism, the Social Determination of Health, and Health Inequities: The Intersecting Impacts of Housing and Mass Incarceration.American journal of public health · 2023Article
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Abstract
The authors examine the experiences of informal housing providers, defined as those who provide housing and shelter to family, friends, and acquaintances in the context of a severe affordable rental housing crisis. Forty-five semistructured interviews were conducted with informal housing providers in and around New Haven, Connecticut, in 2021. The data describe the critical role informal housing providers play in addressing gaps in the housing safety net. Interviews also show the ways informal housing provision can strain already vulnerable households and threaten providers' own housing security, with implications for their health and well-being. As such, the data illustrate how widespread unmet housing needs can reverberate across networks and communities. Given the multiple ways structural racism has constrained housing access for nonwhite Americans, this burden of housing provision is also likely to be unequal, with implications for population health equity.
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