Targeting Health Disparities through Housing Redevelopment: A Natural Experiment of Housing Quality, Stability, and Economic Integration

This project seeks to exploit a novel, multi-arm natural experiment of public housing redevelopment, in which subsets of public housing residents will be displaced and assigned to different environments versus remaining in place. Using a rigorous mixed-methods design to fill critical holes in the knowledge base, we will address whether improving housing quality, limiting external displacement, and creating mixed-income communities improve the physical, mental, and behavioral health of public housing residents.