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  • Early life health impacts of affordable housing in higher-income areas: Evidence from Massachusetts Chapter 40B
    Desegregation-focused housing policies aimed at reducing disparities in neighborhood conditions may also reduce disparities in health outcomes. This paper examines the effects of one such policy on the health of pregnant people and their newborn infants. Specifically, it studies the impact of Massachusetts Chapter 40B, a major civil rights-era housing policy that increases the supply of…
    April 2023
    Maternal/Child Health, Healthy Housing
  • Association between housing affordability and severe maternal morbidity
    Importance:  The number of people living in unaffordable housing (relative to income) is projected to continue increasing as housing cost inflation outpaces incomes in the US. Although reproductive-aged women have disproportionately high housing costs, particularly around the time of childbirth, data on associations between housing costs and maternal health and the role of publicly supported…
    November 2022
    Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Healthy Housing
  • How states can expand health care access in rural communities
    Rural communities throughout the United States lack access to health care. While only 14 percent of Americans—almost 46 million people—live in rural areas, rural communities represent nearly two-thirds of primary care health professional shortage areas (HPSAs) in the country. This amounts to more than 4,100 primary care HPSAs in rural areas. A 2018 report by Pew Research Center found that the…
    February 2022
    Interventions, Services & Programs, Social/Structural Determinants, Access
  • Characteristics associated with downward residential mobility among birthing persons in California
    Substantial research documents health consequences of neighborhood disadvantage. Patterns of residential mobility that differ by race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status (SES) may sort non-Hispanic (NH) Black and low-SES families into disadvantaged neighborhoods. In this study, we leverage a sibling-linked dataset to track residential mobility among birthing persons between pregnancies and…
    May 2021
    Maternal/Child Health, Healthy Housing
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