Cityscape: Volume 20 Number 2 | The Housing-Health Connection

The goal of Cityscape is to bring high-quality original research on housing and community development issues to scholars, government officials, and practitioners. Cityscape is open to all relevant disciplines, including architecture, consumer research, demography, economics, engineering, ethnography, finance, geography, law, planning, political science, public policy, regional science, sociology, statistics, and urban studies.

Cityscape is published three times a year by the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Cityscape Home  |  View Past Issues

The Housing-Health Connection

Volume 20, Number 2

Mark D. Shroder

Michelle P. Matuga

The Health-Housing Nexus: New Answers to Key Questions

Veronica Helms Garrison
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

Craig Evan Pollack
Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health

The views expressed in this introduction are those of the guest editors and do not represent the official positions or policies of the Office of Policy Development and Research, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, or the U.S. government.

The link between housing and health is far reaching and complex. Historically, the housing-health nexus has been primarily associated with physical exposures and dilapidated housing; however, recent studies suggest that adverse health outcomes are also linked to housing rental assistance status, housing insecurity, a lack of affordable housing, and neighborhood quality.