Relationships between historical redlining, contemporary housing market dynamics, racial composition, and mental health in U.S. urban neighborhoods: A conditional process analysis.

Jenny Wagner, Noli Brazil, Shani Buggs, Michelle Ko

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Article in Social science & medicine (1982), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Jenny WagnerCalifornia State University, Sacramento, Department of Public Health, Solano Hall, 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA, 95819, USA. Electronic address: jenny.wagner@csus.edu.

Noli BrazilUniversity of California, Davis, Department of Human Ecology, Hart Hall, 301 Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA. Electronic address: nbrazil@ucdavis.edu.

Shani BuggsUniversity of California, Davis, Department of Emergency Medicine, 4301 X Street, Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA. Electronic address: sabuggs@ucdavis.edu.

Michelle KoUniversity of California, Davis, Department of Public Health Sciences, Medical Sciences 1-C, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA, 95616, USA. Electronic address: mijko@ucdavis.edu.

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Lifecourse exposure to community violence and risk of cognitive decline, Alzheimer's Disease, and related dementias among African-AmericansR01AG067525 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS · PI KO, MICHELLE JASSMINE · 2020 to 2024

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Abstract

Historical redlining practices have been linked to a wide range of contemporary social, economic, and health outcomes, including poor mental health. Few studies, however, have investigated the contemporary factors which may explain these lasting associations. We examined features of contemporary housing markets-including property values, homeownership rates, and loan denial rates for home purchase-as possible mediators of historical redlining patterns and contemporary prevalence of poor mental health and assessed neighborhood racial composition as a moderator of these associations. Using data from the CDC PLACES Project (2020 release), American Community Survey (2013-2017), Home Mortgage Disclosure Act database (2013-2017), and Historic Redlining Scores Project, we studied 12,047 census tracts in the United States. We found significant indirect effects of historical redlining on contemporary prevalence of poor mental health via neighborhood property values, homeownership rates, and loan denial rates for home purchase. Further, the indirect effect of redlining via relative median property value was conditional on neighborhood racial composition. Our findings suggest properties in historically "A" graded neighborhoods are valued more than those in neighborhoods graded less favorably, and this apparent benefit to property values-and subsequently to residents' mental health-is greater in neighborhoods where Black residents are underrepresented.

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HousingMental HealthNeighborhood CharacteristicsRacial GroupsResidence CharacteristicsUrban PopulationAdultFemaleHumansMaleUnited StatesHistorical redliningMental healthNeighborhood healthStructural racism

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PMID40378697

DOI10.1016/j.socscimed.2025.118180

PMCPMC13418432

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