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ArticleAmerican journal of preventive medicine2025

Redeveloping Low-Income Communities and Residents' Mental Health: Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Watts, Los Angeles.

Jose J Scott, Ashlesha Datar, Victoria Shier, Ying Liu

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Article in American journal of preventive medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Jose J ScottSol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. Electronic address: jscott@usc.edu.
Ashlesha DatarCenter for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Victoria ShierSol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Center for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
Ying LiuCenter for Economic and Social Research, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

Funding

The Impact of Improvements in Built- and Social-Environments and Housing on Obesity in Public Housing Residents: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in South Los AngelesR01CA228058 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ASHLESHA DATAR · 2018 to 2026
$4.1M
Impact of Built, Social, and Housing Environments on Obesity in Low-Income ChildrenR01HD096293 · NICHD · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI ASHLESHA DATAR · 2018 to 2026
$3.4M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA228058NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD096293
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Abstract

introductionThe role of housing and the built and social environments is understudied as a social determinant of mental health. This study leverages a natural experiment created by the ongoing redevelopment of a public housing community to examine the effects of simultaneously improving the housing, built, and social environments on mental health for low-income, minoritized residents.

methodsThis study analyzed longitudinal data from adult participants in the Watts Neighborhood Health Study. The cohort study includes residents in the public housing community being redeveloped (treatment group) and those in two nearby public housing sites (comparison group) in Watts, Los Angeles. ANCOVA regression models were used to examine whether residents in the treatment group had better mental health scores at follow-up (2021-22) compared to residents in the comparison group, conditional on mental health scores at baseline (2018-19) and other covariates. The analyses leveraged plausibly exogenous variation within the treatment group in exposure to the redevelopment to examine whether mental health at follow-up varied differentially by proximity to the redeveloped areas.

resultsAnalyses showed the treatment group experienced slightly fewer depressive symptoms than the comparison group at follow-up. They also revealed a non-linear relationship between proximity to redeveloped areas and residents' mental health within the treatment group.

conclusionsComprehensive redevelopment of low-income minoritized communities is a complex process that entails uneven mental health impacts on residents in the short term. Strategies to help spread these benefits more evenly may be needed.

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Mental HealthPovertyPublic HousingAdultFemaleHumansLongitudinal StudiesLos AngelesMaleMiddle AgedNeighborhood CharacteristicsSocial Environment

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