Housing inequalities and resilience: the lived experience of COVID-19

Horne, Ralph; Willand, Nicola; Dorignon, Louise; Middha, Bhavna

doi:10.1080/19491247.2021.2002659

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“…Meanwhile, we find that people who rent a residential unit (compared to people who own a residential unit or house) have severe worries about job loss and income reduction. The result also implies that people who live in a rented unit may have limited financial capacity to support themselves through the COVID-19 pandemic [ 57 , 58 ].…”

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Examining the Influence of Housing Conditions and Daily Greenspace Exposure on People’s Perceived COVID-19 Risk and Distress

Huang

Kwan

2022

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Many people have worried about COVID-19 infection, job loss, income reduction, and family conflict during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some social groups may be particularly vulnerable due to their residential neighborhoods and daily activities. On the other hand, people’s daily exposure to greenspace offers promising pathways for reducing these worries associated with COVID-19. Using data collected with a questionnaire and a two-day activity diary from two typical neighborhoods in Hong Kong, this study examines how people’s housing conditions and daily greenspace exposure affect their perceived COVID-19 risk and distress (i.e., worries about job loss, income reduction, and family conflict) during the pandemic. First, the study compares people’s perceived COVID-19 risk and distress based on their residential neighborhoods. Further, it examines the associations between people’s perceived COVID-19 risk and distress with their housing conditions and daily greenspace exposure using ordinal logistic regression models. The results indicate that living in a high-risk neighborhood, being married, renting a residential unit, and living in a large household are significantly associated with a higher neighborhood-based perceived COVID-19 risk and distress during the pandemic. In addition, people also reported lower mobility-based perceived COVID-19 risk when compared to their neighborhood-based perceived COVID-19 risk, while they still have a high perceived COVID-19 risk in their occupational venues if they have to work in a high-risk district (e.g., Kowloon). Lastly, daily greenspace exposure (i.e., woodland) could reduce people’s perceived COVID-19 risk and distress. These results have important implications for the public health authority when formulating the measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Examining the Influence of Housing Conditions and Daily Greenspace Exposure on People’s Perceived COVID-19 Risk and Distress

Huang

Kwan

2022

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“…Similar to how the social crisis brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic can be seen as the confluence of an external shock with pre-existing structural inequalities (Byrne and Sassi, 2022; see also Haase, 2020 ), we found the mental ill-health of our participants was the result of already poor quality or precarious housing that predated the pandemic. The literature on the mental health impacts of poor quality and precarious housing for renters during COVID-19 contains evidence about the impact of containment in cold, damp and cramped conditions, concerns about raising maintenance issues with landlords (for fear of rent reprisals or revenge evictions), uncertainty about the future and/or a general lack of awareness about their rights and available support ( Horne et al, 2021 ; Byrne and Sassi, 2022; Waldron, 2022 ). This in turn resulted in households enduring poor housing conditions which affected mental health and wellbeing, with the vulnerabilities of these conditions and situations creating emotional distress that led to experiences of common mental health problems including anxiety and low mood/depression.…”

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“…It is increasingly clear the social implications of the COVID-19 pandemic have not been evenly spread, with many existing inequalities amplified ( Blundell et al, 2020 ; Quantin and Tubert-Bitter, 2022 ). However, despite emerging research on the relationship between housing quality and lived experience during the COVID-19 pandemic, ( Horne et al, 2021 ; Waldron, 2022 ), there is very little in-depth understanding about how the mental health impacts of lockdown measures might be mediated by the material and social qualities of poor and precarious housing itself.…”

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