TY - JOUR
T1 - Bridging the Housing and Health Policy Divide
T2 - Lessons in Community Development From Memphis and Baltimore
AU - Stacy, Christina Plerhoples
AU - Schilling, Joseph
AU - Gourevitch, Ruth
AU - Lowy, Jacob
AU - Meixell, Brady
AU - Thornton, Rachel L.J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Interdisciplinary Research Leaders program. The original Baltimore zoning code Health Impact Assessment was funded by a Rapid Response Grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Active Living Research program (Grant No. 66853). Rachel Thornton was supported by a grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (Grant No. K23 HL121250-01A1). Dr. Thornton, Dr. Stacy, Mr. Meixell, and Mr. Lowy are also supported by funding from the Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative. Thank you to Steve Barlow, Sarah Gollust, Katy Kozhimannil, Stephen Durako, Irene Yen, and Mary Mays for review and guidance, and to Steve for leading us on the ground for the Memphis HIA. Thanks also to the graduate research assistants and law externs who assisted with the HIA: Christina Crutchfield, Esther Delanie Sykes-Wood, Stephanie A. Modert, and Richard Urban.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
PY - 2019/5/4
Y1 - 2019/5/4
N2 - Governments and nonprofits routinely partner to launch place-based initiatives in distressed neighborhoods with the goal of stabilizing real estate markets, reclaiming vacant properties, abating public nuisances, and reducing crime. Public health impacts and outcomes are rarely the major policy drivers in the design and implementation of these neighborhood-scale initiatives. In this article, we examine recent health impact assessments in Baltimore, Maryland, and Memphis, Tennessee, to show how public health concepts, principles, and practices can be infused into existing and new programs and policies, and how public health programs can help to improve population health by addressing the upstream social determinants of health. We provide a portfolio of ideas and practices to bridge this classic divide of housing and health policy.
AB - Governments and nonprofits routinely partner to launch place-based initiatives in distressed neighborhoods with the goal of stabilizing real estate markets, reclaiming vacant properties, abating public nuisances, and reducing crime. Public health impacts and outcomes are rarely the major policy drivers in the design and implementation of these neighborhood-scale initiatives. In this article, we examine recent health impact assessments in Baltimore, Maryland, and Memphis, Tennessee, to show how public health concepts, principles, and practices can be infused into existing and new programs and policies, and how public health programs can help to improve population health by addressing the upstream social determinants of health. We provide a portfolio of ideas and practices to bridge this classic divide of housing and health policy.
KW - Public health
KW - community development
KW - housing
KW - neighborhood revitalization
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U2 - 10.1080/10511482.2018.1539858
DO - 10.1080/10511482.2018.1539858
M3 - Article
C2 - 31564815
AN - SCOPUS:85059903216
SN - 1051-1482
VL - 29
SP - 403
EP - 420
JO - Housing Policy Debate
JF - Housing Policy Debate
IS - 3
ER -