Mapping Housing Laws in the United States: A Resource for Evaluating Housing Policies' Impacts on Health

Moran-McCabe, Katie; Waimberg, Joshua; Ghorashi, Adrienne

doi:10.1097/phh.0000000000001111

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“…Securing tenure for renters and landlord-owners alike can incentivize higher housing quality standards due to increased rental or (eventual) sale prices, in addition to legal repercussions of violating legal building codes or regulations. In the U.S., for example, urban housing policies to protect renters are well-known, but significant variation in implementation at city and state levels leaves many renters vulnerable to eviction and poor quality housing ( Moran-McCabe et al, 2020 ). Inspections of rental properties for safety and quality are legislated in the U.S. but tend to only happen in response to a tenant filing a complaint.…”

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Synthesizing the links between secure housing tenure and health for more equitable cities

Baumgartner¹,

Rodrıguez²,

Berkhout³

et al. 2023

Wellcome Open Res

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Millions of households in rich and poor countries alike are at risk of being unwilfully displaced from their homes or the land on which they live (i.e., lack secure tenure), and the urban poor are most vulnerable. Improving housing tenure security may be an intervention to improve housing and environmental conditions and reduce urban health inequalities. Building on stakeholder workshops and a narrative review of the literature, we developed a conceptual model that infers the mechanisms through which more secure housing tenure can improve housing, environmental quality, and health. Empirical studies show that more secure urban housing tenure can boost economic mobility, improve housing and environmental conditions including reduced exposure to pollution, create safer and more resourced communities, and improve physical and mental health. These links are shared across tenure renters and owners and different economic settings. Broader support is needed for context-appropriate policies and actions to improve tenure security as a catalyst for cultivating healthier homes and neighbourhoods and reducing urban health inequalities in cities.

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Synthesizing the links between secure housing tenure and health for more equitable cities

Baumgartner¹,

Rodrıguez²,

Berkhout³

et al. 2023

Wellcome Open Res

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“…47 Detailed coding of attributes in laws makes it easier to identify differences (across jurisdictions or over time) and facilitate further research to investigate how these may be connected to PA 12 and other outcomes, such as economic disparities in active travel. 12,34 Legal mapping is, therefore, an important first step toward not only determining how laws can improve PA in populations 48 but also identifying any unintended adverse effects (eg, displacement due to gentrification; poorer sense of community or neighborhood satisfaction). 49,50 Currently, it is more feasible and common to use legal mapping to support evaluation and comparisons within countries rather than across countries due to the significant challenges and complexities associated with variations in the structure and operation of different countries' legal systems, availability of legal texts, language differences, difficulties in collecting laws, and differences in legal culture, although the case for global legal surveillance has been argued.…”

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The Built Environment and Population Physical Activity: Methods for Mapping the Relevant Laws

Nau

Bellew

Bauman

et al. 2023

Journal of Physical Activity and Health

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Background: The development of policies that promote and enable physical activity (PA) is a global health priority. Laws are an important policy instrument that can enable enduring beneficial outcomes for individuals, organizations, and environments through multiple mechanisms. This article presents a systematic process for mapping laws relevant to PA, which can be used to understand the role of laws as a powerful PA policy lever. Methods: Building on methods used in public health law research, we developed a protocol for scientific mapping of laws influencing the built environment for PA in Australia. The MonQcle online legal research platform was used for data coding, analysis, and presentation. Results: We describe the 10 key stages of legal mapping that we applied to examine state and territory laws that influence walking and cycling in Australia. Conclusions: Law is a neglected element of policy research for PA. There is a need for accessible legal data to drive the design, investment, and implementation of legal interventions to improve population PA. Legal mapping is a first step toward evaluation of such laws for PA. This paper provides a practical case study and guidance for the 10 stages in legal mapping of laws that influence the built environment for PA.

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“…It is a form of legal mapping that creates data suitable for use in rigorous evaluation studies.”21 The systematic collection of laws allows for robust, clear, and reproducible means of collecting key law characteristics for cross-state comparisons 22,24. Gilchrist et al25 assessed stroke systems of care laws, while Moran-McCabe et al26 used policy surveillance to map housing laws within the United States, focusing on key aspects needed for housing stability like city nuisance property ordinances and state fair housing laws. We use policy surveillance methods to create data sets that allow us to compare liability, licensure, and scope of practice laws that pertain to health care volunteers during disasters in the study states.…”

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Comparison of Laws that Impact Volunteer Response in Three Disaster-Prone Southeastern States

Malmin,

Nostrand

2024

Journal of Public Health Management &Amp; Practice

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Objective: As natural disasters become more frequent and severe, the ability of impacted states to rapidly scale up their capacity to respond and facilitate recovery through volunteers is ever more crucial. However, the legal landscape that may facilitate or hamper augmentation through volunteers has yet to be fully explored. Design: This study utilized policy surveillance methodology to code relevant laws identified in searches using the Emergency Law Inventory database and Westlaw. Setting: We assessed laws in three natural disaster-prone states: North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. Main Outcome Measures: We assessed the presence of liability protection, license reciprocity, and scope of practice laws for health care volunteers. Results: Of the three assessed legal domains, liability protection for health care volunteers across all states contained the most robust language. Liability protections apply unless the health care volunteers act with reckless disregard, willful misconduct, or gross negligence. However, nuance exists based on which organizations (state vs charitable) volunteers are affiliated with to qualify for coverage. License reciprocity for out-of-state specific health care professions entering the impacted states was available across all three states. However, only Georgia enacted federal model legislation that provides additional flexibility regarding credentialing and liability protections. Lastly, very few laws addressed the scope of practice in impacted states. Conclusions: Comparisons of laws that impact the ability of health care volunteers to respond and recover from disasters are scarce. More research needs to be performed to better understand the laws that impact volunteers in emergencies, particularly as the public health system is overtasked when providing services to impacted communities.

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Mapping Housing Laws in the United States: A Resource for Evaluating Housing Policies' Impacts on Health

Cited by 5 publications

References 83 publications

Synthesizing the links between secure housing tenure and health for more equitable cities

Synthesizing the links between secure housing tenure and health for more equitable cities

The Built Environment and Population Physical Activity: Methods for Mapping the Relevant Laws

Comparison of Laws that Impact Volunteer Response in Three Disaster-Prone Southeastern States

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