Human Impact Partners Evidence Base
- Home ownership is associated with health benefits.
- Homelessness is associated with poor health.
- Unaffordable housing is a consequence and cause of poverty. Higher rents mean that a family cannot spend as much on other life needs.
- Housing affordability can result in residential segregation.
- Housing affordability can result in displacement.
- Development projects that promote density, or compact development, have positive health impacts.
- Housing affordability can result in overcrowded living conditions.
- Housing affordability can result in homelessness.
- Housing maintenance affects health outcomes.
- The choices of building materials can seriously impact health.
- Home lighting can affect health.
- Proper ventilation and moisture abatement can help or hinder public health, particularly respiratory conditions.
- Housing design protects from extreme weather, especially in vulnerable populations such as the elderly
- The physical design of a home can impact physical injury