Eviction, health inequity, and the spread of COVID-19: housing policy as a primary pandemic mitigation strategy

EA Benfer, D Vlahov, MY Long, E Walker-Wells… - Journal of Urban …, 2021 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic precipitated catastrophic job loss, unprecedented unemployment
rates, and severe economic hardship in renter households. As a result, housing precarity …

Systematic review of psychosocial factors associated with evictions

J Tsai, M Huang - Health & social care in the community, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Evictions from rented accommodations are a common pathway to homelessness and can
negatively impact the lives of individuals and communities worldwide. There have been only …

Homelessness, Offending, Victimization, and Criminal Legal System Contact

B McCarthy, J Hagan - Annual Review of Criminology, 2024 - annualreviews.org
There is now a sizable literature on connections between homelessness, crime, and criminal
legal system contact. We review studies on these relationships, focusing mostly on links …

Severe housing insecurity during pregnancy: association with adverse birth and infant outcomes

KM Leifheit, GL Schwartz, CE Pollack, KJ Edin… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Introduction: Housing insecurity is increasingly commonplace among disadvantaged women
and children. We measured the individual-and population-level impact of severe housing …

“It's no foundation, there's no stabilization, you're just scattered”: A qualitative study of the institutional circuit of recently-evicted people who use drugs

T Fleming, AB Collins, J Boyd, KR Knight… - Social Science & …, 2023 - Elsevier
People who use drugs (PWUD) commonly experience housing instability due to intersecting
structural vulnerabilities (eg, drug prohibition, discriminatory housing policies), and …

Health risk associated with residential relocation among people who inject drugs in Los Angeles and San Francisco, CA: a cross sectional study

JC Chiang, RN Bluthenthal, LD Wenger… - BMC public health, 2022 - Springer
Background Given the housing instability and frequent residential relocation (both volitional
and hegemonic) of people who inject drugs, we sought to determine whether residential …

Housing in crisis: A qualitative study of the socio-legal contexts of residential evictions in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

T Fleming, W Damon, AB Collins, S Czechaczek… - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Background People who use drugs (PWUD) commonly experience housing vulnerability
due to the intersection of drug laws, housing policies, gentrification, and social …

Surviving the housing crisis: Social violence and the production of evictions among women who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada

AB Collins, J Boyd, W Damon, S Czechaczek, A Krüsi… - Health & place, 2018 - Elsevier
Single room accommodation (SRA) housing is among the only forms of accessible housing
to marginalized women who use illicit drugs in many urban settings. However, SRA housing …

[HTML][HTML] Eviction in early childhood and neighborhood poverty, food security, and obesity in later childhood and adolescence: Evidence from a longitudinal birth cohort

KM Leifheit, GL Schwartz, CE Pollack, MM Black… - SSM-population …, 2020 - Elsevier
Eviction affects a substantial share of US children, but its effects on child health are largely
unknown. Our objectives were to examine how eviction relates to 1) children's health and …

Residential eviction predicts initiation of or relapse into crystal methamphetamine use among people who inject drugs: a prospective cohort study

W Damon, R McNeil, MJ Milloy, E Nosova… - Journal of Public …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Reports of increasing methamphetamine use among vulnerable populations may be
attributed in part to the adaptive use of stimulants in response to the loss of stable housing …