Human Impact Partners Evidence Base
Articles in Housing affordability can result in residential segregation.
Lack of affordable housing leads to the segregation of poor and minority communities to areas of concentrated racial inhabitation.
Sampson RJ. What community supplies. In: Ferguson RF, Dickey WT. Urban Problems and Community Development. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press; 1999: chapter 6.Segregated neighborhoods have fewer institutional assets (schools, libraries, public transit).
Kawachi I, Berkman L. Neighborhoods and Health. New York, NY: Oxford University Press; 2003.
Bhatia R, Guzman C. The case for housing impacts assessment: the human health and social impacts of inadequate housing and their consideration in CEQA policy and practice. San Francisco, CA: Department of Public Health; 2004.More violent crime, more infectious disease and chronic disease all occur in segregated neighborhoods.
Wilson WJ. The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy. Chicago, IL.: University of Chicago Press; 1987.
Williams DR, Collins C. Racial residential segregation: a fundamental cause of racial disparities in health. Public Health Rep. 2001;116:404-416.Living in a racially segregated neighborhood puts an individual at higher risk for transmission of infectious diseases, such as tuberculosis.
Acevedo-Garcia D. Residential segregation and the epidemiology of infectious diseases. Soc Sci Med. 2000;51:1143-1161.Living in racially segregated neighborhoods has been associated with higher rates of infant mortality, overall mortality, and crime.
LaVeist TA. Segregation, poverty, and empowerment: health consequences for African Americans. Milbank Quarterly. 1993;71:41-64.
Polednak AP. Black-white differences in infant mortality in 38 standard metropolitan statistical areas. Am J Public Health. 1991;81(11):1480-1482.
Fang J, Madhaven S, Bosworth W, Alderman MH. Residential segregation and mortality in New York City. Soc Sci Med. 1998;47:469-476.
Collins CA, Williams DR. Segregation and mortality: the deadly effects of racism? Sociol Forum. 1999;14(3): 495-523.
Hart KD, Kunitz SJ, Sell RR, Mukamel DB. Metropolitan governance, residential segregation, and mortality among African Americans. Am J Public Health. 1998;8(88):434-438.
Shihadeh ES, Flynn N. Segregation and crime: the effect of black isolation on the rates of black urban violence. Soc Forces. 1996;74:1325-1352.Undesirable land uses such as power plants and factories, sources of toxins, and bus yards are often sited in low-income communities of color.
Shihadeh ES, Flynn N. Segregation and crime: the effect of black isolation on the rates of black urban violence. Soc For. 1996;74:1325-1352.Research has shown that reducing income-related residential segregation improves household safety, reduced exposure to crime, and decreased neighborhood social disorder.
Anderson LM, St Charles J, Fullilove MT, Scrimshaw SC, Fielding JE, Normand J. Providing affordable family housing and reducing residential segregation by income: a systematic review. Am J Prev Med. 2003;24(3S):47-67.Neighborhoods of high income, more educated and more politically savvy residents have more access to lawmakers and other avenues of influence than the poor neighborhoods.
Williams DR, Collins C. Racial residential segregation: a fundamental cause of racial disparities in health. Public Health Rep. 2001;(116):404-417.
Bullard RD. Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class, and Environmental Quality. Boulder, CO: Westview; 1990.