Eviction as a community health exposure
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Schwartz, Gabriel L.; Leifheit, Kathryn M.; Arcaya, Mariana C.; Keene, Danya
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Evidence suggests that being evicted harms health. Largely ignored in the existing literature is the possibility that evictions exert community-level health effects, affecting evicted individuals' social networks and shaping broader community conditions. In this narrative review, we summarize evidence and lay out a theoretical model for eviction as a community health exposure, mediated through four paths: 1) shifting ecologies of infectious disease and health behaviors, 2) disruption of neighborhood social cohesion, 3) strain on social networks, and 4) increasing salience of eviction risk. We describe methods for parsing eviction's individual and contextual effects and discuss implications for causal inference. We conclude by addressing eviction's potentially multilevel consequences for policy advocacy and cost-benefit analyses.
Date issued
2024-01Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and PlanningJournal
Social Science & Medicine
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Elsevier BV
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Schwartz, Gabriel L., Leifheit, Kathryn M., Arcaya, Mariana C. and Keene, Danya. 2024. "Eviction as a community health exposure." Social Science & Medicine, 340.
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0277-9536