Housing Affordability and Health Among Homeowners and Renters

Pollack, Craig Evan; Griffin, Beth Ann; Lynch, Julia

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2010.08.002

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“…[2][3][4] In two successive studies, Pollack et al found that people who were more than 2 months behind on their mortgage payments or who were involved in a foreclosure judgment had a higher prevalence of psychiatric disorders such as depression, anxiety, or dysphoria compared to people without housing instability. 5,6 Houle 7 recently reported that an increase in the rate of mortgage foreclosures at county level was associated with poorer mental health after adjusting for individual and contextual variables, while Fowler et al suggested that housing loss is associated with increased suicide risk. 8 Foreclosure has also been reported to have physical health effects, including higher rates of hypertension and heart disease compared to the general population.…”

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Foreclosure and Health in Southern Europe: Results from the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages

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Housing instability has been shown to be related to poorer health outcomes in various studies, mainly in the USA and UK. Affected individuals are more prone to psychiatric (e.g., major depression, anxiety) and physical disorders (e.g., hypertension). This situation has deteriorated with the onset of the economic crisis. One of the most affected countries is Spain, which has high rates of foreclosure and eviction that continue to rise. In response, a civil movement, The Platform for People Affected by Mortgages (PAH), works to provide solutions to its members affected by foreclosure and advocates for the right to decent housing. The aims of this study ware to describe and compare the health status of PAH members from Catalonia to a sample of the general population and to analyze the association between health status and mortgage status, foreclosure stage, and other socioeconomic variables, among members of the PAH. We conducted a cross-sectional study using a self-administered online questionnaire (2014) administered to 905 PAH members in Catalonia (918 years; 559 women and 346 men). Results were compared with health indicators from The Health Survey of Catalonia 2013 (n = 4830). The dependent variables were poor mental health (GHQ 12 ≥ 3), and poor self-reported health (fair or poor). All analyses were stratified by sex. We computed age-standardized prevalence and prevalence ratios of poor mental and self-reported health in both samples. We also analyzed health outcomes among PAH members according to mortgage status (mortgage holders or guarantors), stage of foreclosure, and other socioeconomic variables by computing prevalence ratios from robust Poisson regression models. The prevalence of poor mental health among PAH members was 90.6 % in women and 84.4 % in men, and 15.5 and 10.2 % in the general population, respectively. The prevalence of poor self-reported health was 55.6 % in women and 39.4 % in men from the PAH, and 19.2 and 16.1 % in the general population, respectively. These health inequalities were independent of socioeconomic status. The prevalence of poor mental health was higher among individuals in the non-payment stage of foreclosure than among those who were up to date with their payments (e.g., PR c = 1.16 [95 % CI 1.04-1.28]). In contrast, selfreported poor health was more prominent in later stages of foreclosure, such as in posteviction without dation in payment stage in men (PR c = 2.24 [95 %CI = 1.35-3.72]). We observed a considerably higher prevalence of poor mental and self-reported health among male and female PAH members than in the general population. Public policies that tackle housing instability and its consequences are urgently needed in Spain.

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Foreclosure and Health in Southern Europe: Results from the Platform for People Affected by Mortgages

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“…This measure of housing affordability has been applied widely in North America (Hulchanski, 1995;Linneman & Megbolugbe, 1992), Australia and Europe (Whitehead, 1991), although alternative measures have been proposed (for example Stone, 2006). By restricting the analysis to the lower 40 per cent of the income distribution we ensure that the same proportion of income spent on housing represents an equivalent financial burden for households with different incomes -a limitation acknowledged by others in recent work in this field (Pollack et al, 2010). An individual's housing was classified as affordable when household rent or mortgage payments were less than or equal to 30 per cent of gross household income.…”

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Housing affordability, tenure and mental health in Australia and the United Kingdom: a comparative panel analysis

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“…42 Financial strain resulting from housing insecurity is associated with higher rates of chronic disease, psychological conditions, and overall mortality. 43,44 Stress incurred throughout the home-buying process can also decrease emotional and physical well-being. 45 Finally, self-reported discrimination as a socially derived stressor can have direct effects on high blood pressure, mental health status, and substance abuse.…”

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