Housing and Community Development: Divergent Responses to Austerity Politics

Editors, Anna Maria Santiago From the; Smith, Richard

doi:10.1080/10705422.2018.1490242

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“…Overall, housing cost burdens may continue worsening as the full effects of recent federal government policy including the 2019 decision to eliminate Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds are unknown. The full impact and lasting effects of the past four years of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) slashing its budget by over $8 million while simultaneously increasing housing costs for housing program participants is yet to be known (Santiago & Smith, 2018 ). These most recent disinvestments in public housing assistance follow decades of institutional interventions such as public–private partnership housing developments coupled with tax break schemes, voucher systems such as Sect.…”

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Rent Burden and Depression Among Mothers: an Analysis of Primary Caregiver Outcomes

Elliott

West

Castro

2021

J of Pol Practice & Research

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Using national longitudinal survey data from the Fragile Families & Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS), this study builds on existing knowledge about housing insecurity, female caregivers, and well-being. The study analyzed the relationship between housing cost burdens (HCB) and depression among a sample ( N = 399) of predominantly (67.6%) Black non-Hispanic mothers and other female primary caregivers. A generalized estimating equation (GEE) model yielded results that indicate housing cost burden among mothers and other female primary caregivers has a statistically significant association with meeting symptoms of depression and liberal criteria for depression as measured by the CIDI-SF survey instrument. This study contributes to the knowledge base of health outcomes related to housing cost burden by providing a unique analysis of the association of depression and housing cost burden at an unprecedented scale by using data from several consecutive waves of survey responses of a large, multi-city, longitudinal study. The findings hold implications that may inform future policy and research concerning the affordable housing crisis, which disproportionately affects mothers and other female heads of household. Considering the prevalence of housing cost burden in the USA and the disproportionate indications of depression found among housing burdened mothers/female caregivers, the findings of this study may hold implications for housing and health policies that address U.S. communities as diverse as the wide range of communities from which the FFCWS respondents were drawn.

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