Does rental assistance improve mental health? Insights from a longitudinal cohort study.
Does rental assistance improve mental health? Insights from a longitudinal cohort study.
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10.1016/j.socscimed.2021.114100
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2021-08
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Keene DE
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Denary W;Fenelon A;Schlesinger P;Purtle J;Blankenship KM;Keene DE
在美国，几乎一半的租房者都有租金负担，这意味着他们要支付超过30%的收入用于住房成本。通过美国住房和城市发展部管理的项目提供的租金援助减轻了约500万家庭的财务压力。然而，由于预算限制，只有不到四分之一的符合条件的家庭实际获得这项援助，全国等待名单平均为两年。使用纵向数据从一个队列的400低收入成年人生活在纽黑文，CT，本文探讨了如何获得租金援助影响心理健康，通过两种分析方法，解决选择到租金援助。首先，我们进行了一个横断面分析，以确定那些接收和那些在等待名单上的租金援助的心理困扰之间的差异。其次，我们使用了一个人内固定效应分析来比较进入租赁援助后个人的变化。我们发现，那些接受租赁援助的报告显着低于那些在等待名单上的心理困扰，并过渡到租赁援助与心理困扰的统计上不显着减少。我们的研究结果表明，扩大租金援助可能是改善美国低收入人群心理健康的一个潜在步骤。
Almost half of renters in the United States are rent-burdened, meaning that they pay more than 30% of their income toward housing costs. Rental assistance through programs administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, alleviates these financial strains for around 5 million households. However, due to budgetary constraints, fewer than one in four eligible households actually receive this assistance and waitlists average two years nationally. Using longitudinal data from a cohort of 400 low-income adults living in New Haven, CT, this paper investigates how access to rental assistance affects mental health through two analytical methods that address selection into rental assistance. First, we performed a cross-sectional analysis to identify how psychological distress differs among those receiving and those on a waitlist for rental assistance. Second, we used a within-person fixed-effects analysis to compare changes in individuals following entry into rental assistance. We find that those receiving rental assistance report significantly less psychological distress than those on waiting lists and that transitions into rental assistance are associated with statistically non-significant decreases in psychological distress. Our findings suggest that expanding rental assistance may be one potential step toward improving the mental health of low-income individuals in the United States.
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13.8
作者：
Czeisler MÉ;Lane RI;Wiley JF;Czeisler CA;Howard ME;Rajaratnam SMW
通讯作者：
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2020.113557
发表时间：
2021-01
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Social science & medicine (1982)
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