Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts
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Rising home values and Covid-19 case rates in Massachusetts.pdf
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Author(s)
Arcaya, Mariana Clair
Nidam, Yael
Binet, Andrew David Richmond
Gibson, Reann
Gavin, Vedette
Date Issued
August 2020
Journal
Social Science and Medicine
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Citation
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)
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Author's final manuscript
Abstract
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.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning
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DOI of Published Version
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113290
