Author:
Olascoaga Sebastián Sandoval,López César García,Rio Gabriela Zayas del,Arcaya Mariana C.
Abstract
Abstract
This chapter discusses housing conditions as determinants of COVID-19, including housing market-level conditions, such as gentrification, and unit-level conditions, such as overcrowding. It also addresses the ways in which COVID-19 affects housing markets, including housing prices, and risk of adverse housing outcomes, including eviction, for households. This chapter also explores financial factors and housing conditions, including maintenance of housing, rent freezes, eviction moratoriums, burden of rent, housing stability, publicly supported housing, and shelters. It is suggested that access to stable housing can improve health and reduce healthcare costs. In addition, this chapter explores the interactions between closures and adjustments due to COVID-19 increases in job insecurity, and housing insecurity and efforts to house the homeless to prevent transmission. The chapter concludes by reviewing potential housing interventions that could guard against COVID-19 and discusses the need to prepare for pandemic-induced housing market failures.
Publisher
Oxford University PressNew York
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