Law stands as a significant influence on health equity, and an essential means of advancing a Culture of Health. The role of law in housing equity is considerable, and has been evolving over the past 50 years.
This landmark project will address a series of related questions to understand the role of law as a lever for health equity through housing:
- How has law helped build the segregated city?
- How are cities meeting the most important challenges in the quest for healthy, equitable communities, specifically related to preserving and building diversity, ensuring housing quality and safety, and supporting mobility?
- What are the major needs in law and housing and gaps?
- And, finally, how can housing-related law most effectively be used to promote healthy, equitable communities?
The research team will publish a series of reports exploring these key questions, and introduce a framework for future strategic thinking and action to better use legal levers to advance health equity in this country.
Related Evidence
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Published December 9, 2019View Evidence
The U.S. housing system has created a chronic affordability gap and persistently inequitable and unhealthy living conditions. Law plays an important role in shaping that system, but there is too much unknown about the impact of housing laws and policies on health and health equity. This report series by the P4A Research Hub at the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law aims to highlight these gaps, and to suggest areas for research and action needed to produce healthier communities.
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Published March 14, 2019View Evidence
Abraham Gutman, Katie Moran-McCabe and Scott Burris at the Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research published an article in the Northeastern University Law Review that explores 23 legal mechanisms, or levers, that may impact health equity in housing in the U.S., and reviews the evidence base evaluating each lever.
Updates
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Published November 22, 2019View Post
Housing in the United States is in bad shape. There are not enough units, and where there are units, they are often not affordable, and not in the right places. These problems are a result of the U.S. housing system, which is a complex set of people, organizations, laws, and conditions that interact to produce our current housing arrangements. This system has created a chronic shortage and affordability gap and persistently inequitable, segregated, and unhealthy living conditions for millions of Americans.
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Published April 9, 2019View Post
There are many explanations for the housing crisis in the U.S. One is that the law has never stopped promoting and preserving segregation, nor has it adequately supported the supply of enough affordable, safe, and stable housing for all citizens.
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