A Systematic Review of Public Housing, Poverty (De)Concentration, and Risk Behaviors: What About Youth?

Abstract

Mobility housing programs aim to deconcentrate poverty in public housing areas. Previous synthesis research results describe the potential negative impact of mobility programs on the physical and mental health of youth. The current systematic review aims to expand our knowledge of the effects of living in a public housing development and leaving public housing and moving to a new neighborhood on youth risk behaviors, including both general crime/delinquency and substance use, sexual risk behavior, behavioral problems, and binge drinking. The systematic review process produced 7 primary research studies on public housing effects and 10 research studies on resettlement effects. Regarding public housing effects, five studies found a higher incidence of youth risk behaviors in public housing areas, while two studies concluded that not all children and adolescents living in public housing areas are adversely affected by the local environment. Of the 10 studies on the effects of relocation from public housing to other areas, 2 non-randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies found negative impacts, but 8 RCT studies found diversity in relocation effects on youth risk behaviors. These results highlight the need for tailored services for relocated youth taking into consideration their gender, age, family characteristics, and relocation sites. No studies on diversification housing projects satisfied the inclusion criteria in the current systematic review. With a thorough examination of the literature and a discussion of implications, a clear path for future inquiry and youth interventions is presented.

Concentrated incarceration and the public-housing-to-prison pipeline in New York City neighborhoods

“…Whether public housing developments serve as hotbeds of, magnets for, or generators of violence is an open empirical question with studies showing support for these three perspectives, depending on the time periods, spatial levels of aggregation, and specific cities ( 29 ). Third, public housing is correlated with higher levels of youth delinquency ( 31 ), higher levels of social disorder ( 32 ), higher levels of police surveillance ( 33 , 34 ), and lower levels of social trust ( 35 ).…”

Conditions for the Development of Social Housing in Ukraine

“…In the works by DeLuca andRosen [2022], Vasyltsiv, Lupak, andKunytska-Iliash [2019], Lupak and Kunytska-Iliash [2017], the issue of social housing was brought to the rank of social and even national security, which should be considered fair and relevant in the context of current events in Ukraine during the war. An important theoretical and applied basis for the formation and implementation of policies to provide socially vulnerable groups with social housing should be based on the best practices of state regulations in this area, including the relationship between the use of public social housing, overcoming poverty and even deviant behavior [Kim et al, 2022]. To address the demographic problems of territorial development [Chum et al, 2022], it should also be based on the results of the study of housing policy models and developments in the analysis of the impact of social housing policy on socio-spatial [ van Gent and Hochstenbach, 2020] and socio-demographic [Jones and Valero-Silva, 2021] consequences.…”

Socialna država in revščina

“…(Chirisa in Matamanda, 2016;Newman in Struyk, 1983;Olsen, 2014;Silva, 2021). Pri obravnavi revščine v ospredje vse pogosteje prihajajo tudi stanovanjska vprašanja, posebej med najbolj ranljivimi skupinami prebivalstva, kot so mladi, starejši, brezdomci, migranti, ter gibalno in sicer ovirani (Lozano Alcántara in Vogel, 2021;Enström in Wilhelmsson, 2019;Habitat, 1993;Keigher, Hanson-Bern in Mandelyn, 1990;Kim, Merlo, Park in Hong, 2020;Kim in Yoo, 2021;Lee, Tyler in Wright, 2010;Rivera Drew, 2015). Skupaj s stanovanji se dohodek in materialna prikrajšanost uvrščajo med področja, kjer je mogoče opaziti socialno izključenost; finančna nedosegljivost stanovanj je eden od pomembnih dejavnikov socialne izključenosti (Hrast, Hlebec in Kavčič, 2012).…”