Home Is Where the Harm Is: Inadequate Housing as a Public …
Overcrowding and poor-quality housing have a direct relationship to poor mental health, developmental delay, heart disease, and even short stature. You have to call it an epidemic because it is increasing, and it is becoming not only more common, but more serious.
What Gets Lost in the Definition of Inadequate Housing?
2018年12月6日 · Just 1.3 percent of unassisted US households (1.5 million) lived in severely inadequate housing in 2015, according to calculations in the most recent Worst Case Housing Needs report to Congress. One reason for this low number: the definition of worst case housing needs, as directed by Congress decades ago, leaves a lot to be desired.
Inadequate housing
The urban poor also bear the greatest burden of the mismanagement of the urban environment, as it is in the poorer areas that essential services are of the lowest standard. The residential crisis looms largest in the metropolitan areas of the less industrialized countries, resulting in scattered housing developments, mixed land uses, high rents ...
Fair Housing is the right of individuals to obtain the housing of their choice, free from discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status, or national origin.
Inadequate Housing - (AP Human Geography) - Fiveable
Inadequate housing refers to living conditions that fail to meet basic standards of safety, security, and comfort. This term encompasses various issues such as overcrowding, poor sanitation, lack of access to clean water, and structural deficiencies.
Quality of Housing - Healthy People 2030 | odphp.health.gov
Home design and structure significantly influence housing quality and may affect both mental and physical health. 7–9 Poor housing quality and inadequate conditions — such as the presence of lead, mold, or asbestos, poor air quality, and overcrowding — can contribute to negative health outcomes, including chronic disease and injury. 2–6 For exam...
Alabama - National Low Income Housing Coalition
Across Alabama, there is a shortage of rental homes affordable and available to extremely low income households, whose incomes are at or below the poverty guideline or 30% of their area median income. Many of these households are severely cost burdened, spending more than half of their income on housing.
Housing Instability - Healthy People 2030 | odphp.health.gov
Housing instability encompasses a number of challenges, such as having trouble paying rent, overcrowding, moving frequently, or spending the bulk of household income on housing. 1,2 These experiences may negatively affect physical health and make it harder to access health care. 1,3,4 This summary will discuss the cost of housing as well as the ...
Worst Case Housing Needs: 2023 Report to Congress
2023年9月21日 · Renter households with very low incomes who do not receive government housing assistance are defined as having worst case needs for adequate, affordable rental housing if they pay more than one-half of their income for rent, live in severely inadequate conditions, or both.
Urban inequality, the housing crisis and deteriorating water
2024年12月19日 · The housing unaffordability and cost-of-living crisis is affecting millions of people in US cities, yet the implications for urban dwellers’ well-being and social reproduction remain less clear.
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