Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts
We explore whether housing displacement pressure could help explain place-based disparities in Massachusetts COVID-19 prevalence. We use qualitative data from the Healthy Neighborhoods Study to illustrate how rising and unaffordable housing costs are experienced by residents in municipalities dispro...
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| author | Arcaya, Mariana Clair Nidam, Yael Binet, Andrew David Richmond Gibson, Reann Gavin, Vedette |
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| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning Arcaya, Mariana Clair Nidam, Yael Binet, Andrew David Richmond Gibson, Reann Gavin, Vedette |
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| description | We explore whether housing displacement pressure could help explain place-based disparities in Massachusetts COVID-19 prevalence. We use qualitative data from the Healthy Neighborhoods Study to illustrate how rising and unaffordable housing costs are experienced by residents in municipalities disproportionately affected by COVID-19. We then predict municipal-level COVID-19 case rates as a function of home value increases and housing cost burden prevalence among low-income households, controlling for previously identified community-level risk factors. We find that housing value increase predicts higher COVID-19 case rates, but that associations are ameliorated in areas with higher home values. Qualitative data highlight crowding, “doubling up,” homelessness, and employment responses as mechanisms that might link housing displacement pressure to COVID-19 prevalence. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1272132022-09-26T11:47:25Z Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts Arcaya, Mariana Clair Nidam, Yael Binet, Andrew David Richmond Gibson, Reann Gavin, Vedette Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning We explore whether housing displacement pressure could help explain place-based disparities in Massachusetts COVID-19 prevalence. We use qualitative data from the Healthy Neighborhoods Study to illustrate how rising and unaffordable housing costs are experienced by residents in municipalities disproportionately affected by COVID-19. We then predict municipal-level COVID-19 case rates as a function of home value increases and housing cost burden prevalence among low-income households, controlling for previously identified community-level risk factors. We find that housing value increase predicts higher COVID-19 case rates, but that associations are ameliorated in areas with higher home values. Qualitative data highlight crowding, “doubling up,” homelessness, and employment responses as mechanisms that might link housing displacement pressure to COVID-19 prevalence. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Grant 72369) 2020-09-09T16:15:56Z 2020-09-09T16:15:56Z 2020-08 2020-09-09T12:29:06Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0277-9536 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127213 Arcaya, Mariana C. et al. "Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts." Social Science & Medicine (August 2020): 113290 © 2020 The Author(s) en http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113290 Social Science and Medicine Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ application/pdf Elsevier BV Elsevier |
| spellingShingle | Arcaya, Mariana Clair Nidam, Yael Binet, Andrew David Richmond Gibson, Reann Gavin, Vedette Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts |
| title | Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts |
| title_full | Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts |
| title_fullStr | Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts |
| title_short | Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts |
| title_sort | rising home values and covid 19 case rates in massachusetts |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/127213 |
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